Friday Varia and Quick Hits

At the end of a hectic week in North Dakotaland, I’ve traveled west to the might “Capital of the Northern Prairie,” Bismarck, ND for a meeting. The temperature is set to top 95 degrees reminding us that summer has a little more to offer before succumbing to golden light of fall.

Fortunately, I have a nice swarm of Quick Hits and Varia to help you beat the heat this weekend.

• The New Yorker on Istanbul’s big dig.

• Hellenistic wall painting at Petra.

• Using data from the ADS to study Roman settlement in Britain.

• NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World helps out the American University of Iraq – Sulaimani. 

• Archaeological site replaced by a very nice concrete picnic table.

• We should add that table to this list of places where we don’t want to sit.

• Mike Wesch newest project: My Teaching Notebook.

• One-star Yelp! reviews of national parks. We need to do this for Greek archaeological sites, except that I want to write the reviews!

• This is what happens when you give someone something for nothing.

• The Archaeology of the Internets: Space Jam Forever!

• Shipping containers as high rise.

• Probably the most important immigrant from the Planet Lovetron. RIP Daryl Dawkins. This is the best, and maybe only way to celebrate his NBA career. Cheeks to Jones to Dawkins!

• What I’m reading: B. Alberti, A. Meirion Jones, J. Pollard, Archaeology After Interpretation. Walnut Creek, CA 2013. (Cut me some slack, it was the first week back teaching!)

• What I’m listening to: Neil Young, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere; Neil Young, After the Gold Rush; Neil Young, On the Beach. 

Milo is recovering from his cough and ear infections, but he wanted to make sure everyone knew that being a sick, 2-year-old, yellow dog is not easy.