Friday Varia and Quick Hits

After Wednesday was a balmy 33 degrees, today’s 2 degree morning felt downright disrespectful even for North Dakotaland. So I’m looking forward to spending some quality time in an unheated, soon-to-be-demolished building on campus this afternoon, but plan to hunker down for a weekend of books, writing, and NASCAR after today.

I find there’s almost nothing better to fortify me over a long weekend than a little gaggle of varia and quick hits:

• A good post on gender and sexual harassment in archaeology.

• Stories from Syria in Studies in Late Antiquity.

• Interesting thoughts on post-tenure review.

• Destroying the the Gutenberg Galaxy. 

• Distopia lost.

• Next Gen digital humanities.

• Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists. (groan).

• If you’re into watches and patina (and RIP Helmut Sinn).

• Here by Richard McGuire.

• Cathode ray TVs.

• What I’m reading: L. McAtackney and K. Ryzewski, Contemporary Archaeology and the City: Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action. 2017.

• What I’m listening to: Car Seat Headrest, Twin Fantasy.

The boys are ready for their shot at gold in tandem napping.(There is a slight deduction in form).