Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s wintertime on the Northern Plains with a lovely blanket of snow on the ground and just a bit of cold in the air. It’s perfect weather for football, reading in a comfortable chair by the fire, and watching cricket matches taking place in much warmer climate.

It’s also nature’s way to remind me that I need to start to chip away at some larger projects that are looming on the horizon and bring a bunch of the lingering summertime work to close. With the changing seasons come changing priorities, changing deadlines, and changing attitudes.

One thing that doesn’t change, though, are my Friday varia and quick hits:

• RIP Lieutenant Kyriakos Papadopoulos.

• The Class of 1976.

• More 3D Athens.

• Studies in Digital Heritage.

• AHA book award winners (congratulations to some graduate school buddies, Matt Masur and Brad Austin who edit The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History and saw a book in that series, Understanding and Teaching American Slaverywin the James Harvey Robinson prize.)

• Joy of Voting, Grand Forks.

• Evolution after Humans.

• Overcoming Impostor Syndrome.

• Dogs are weird.

• Free Mars!

• This album cover from High on Fire.

• Richie Benaud.

• What I’m reading: Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. 2010.

• What I’m listening to: Phosphorescent, C’est La Vie.