Friday Varia and Quick Hits

With yesterday’s springlike weather, I’ve started to count down the days to the end of the semester (and my sabbatical beyond). My students aren’t helping by noting that “after spring break, the semester is basically over.” There are six weeks left!

More to the point, I have three substantial projects that are due by the end of the semester, so I can’t afford to relax yet.

I can, however, allow myself a little distraction with some quick hits and varia.

• A Call for Paper for the 2015 Archaeological Institute of America meeting: Byzantine Maritime Technology and Trade.

• On a related note, gender disparities in the archaeology based on the 2014 Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Meeting.

• Micoarchaeology in Israel.

• From museums to mosques in Turkey.

• One more Call for Papers: The Senses and Aesthetics in Archaeological Science.

• More on the destruction of Syria’s archaeological heritage.

• And along similar lines, the cats of Istanbul.

• Another Call for Papers: Excavating Pilgrimage.

• Monk legs in a cliff and horse bones ready to be moved.

• A really strange article about a strange archaeological site.

• This will be a strange site in the future.

• Back in the day, Egypt cursed the U.S.

• I sort of like StackEdit as a markup editor.

• Happy birthday interwebs from the Library of Congress.

• Some thoughts about expertise in audiophile circles.

• A map of Tom Waits.

• How to teach a kid about Nirvana.

• T-Pain is sad.

• Tiny houses.

• What I’m reading: Bill McKibben, Enough. (2003).

• What I’m listening to: The Twilight Sad, No One Can Ever Know; New Order, Low Life.