Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s been a long finals week with lots of grant-reviewing, grading, and some start-stop writing that probably just made me more work to do later. That being said, there was some exciting Sixers basketball, the start of a tense test match in Perth, and even some fluffy white snowflakes to holiday up North Dakotaland. 

It’s a busy time of year for most folks, but if you have the time, perhaps by the fire or on the veranda, here are some quick hits and varia:

• Lots on the new Stephan Fry book. Here from Fry and Emily Wilson and here a review by Johanna Hannink.

• Recent work at Lechaion.

• Stuff like this is why I’ve stopped blogging.

• Burying treasures in Athens during World War II.

• How Athenians connected during the debt crisis.  

• My buddy Kyle Conway on his new book.

• Cultural Heritage and Digital Imaging. 

• A nice report on the ISAW conference on digital publishing in archaeology.

• A virtual museum of archaeological computing. 

• John Cale at 75 and Neil Young’s sweater.

• A new book festival in Minneapolis.

• Mapping debt in America. Look at the Bakken counties! Must be all the freedom.

• Rex Sorgatz.

• For my mom.

• Joel Embiid trolling the NBA.

• The Wolf of the Autostrada.

• What I’m reading: Papers!

• What I’m listening to: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, The Emancipation Procrastination; Diaspora; Ruler Rebel.