Friday Varia and Quick Hits
It’s Ashes Week and yesterday involved me rebuilding part of my front porch (we used three kinds of saws and, at times, two drills, making it a very manly operation), but today is back to endless editing (while watching cricket in the morning hours; I was going to say that this might be a slow 3rd-day morning in the test, but James Pattinson just stumped Kevin Pieterson and yesterday’s hero, Ashton Agar took his first test wicket).
All this does very little for you, dear reader. So to make it up for you, I’ll provide a lovely gaggle of quick hits and varia for your Friday enjoyment.
Crowd source volunteers to map of Iron Age forts in Britain.
Catch up with the Jezreel Valley Regional Project and the good work of Stephanie Steinke, an M.A. student in History at the University of North Dakota.
Another church re-mosqued in Turkey. I’m not sure that the re-mosquing is as much of a concern as preservation of these monuments more generally.
A depressing tale of adaptive reuse at the old Minot air station in North Dakota.
The University of North Dakota explores MOOCs in a program called “UND for Free”.
Louis Armstrong was a class guy and practiced a least a couple of hours a day to keep his chops. This is why I try to write a little bit every day.
It looks like the old Grand Forks Opera House might be changing hands. It’s a great building.
The famous 80% Principle sounds pretty good to me after a week like this. I like this little post on it, but it only barely works. If doing 80% rather than 100% gives me 20 more years of life, then I’m only barely making up for the 20% of my life that I decided to relax away. I’m skeptical.
Roxy Munich. Mostly for the title but it is worth reading.
What I’m reading: N. Vincent and C. Wickham eds., Debating Open Access. London 2013.
What I’m listening to: 80-R, One Night.
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