Friday Varia and Quick Hits

As per usual, I discovered that we really should read two more units of pottery before we depart Polis this summer. This has thrown the PKAP-Polis Project into overdrive because these levels fill about 15-20 trays of pottery. Scott reads about a tray an hour, so we’re looking at a couple of long days in the storeroom. At least Scott is keeping up a brave face.

But before we get down to business, we have a day off. Scott Moore and Brandon Olson are on their way to Nicosia for some work at CAARI and I’m going to prepare a short talk for the North Dakota Humanities Council this evening on the North Dakota Man Camp Project and do some GIS work.

I will also provide my loyal and engaged readers with a little swarm of quick hits and varia.

• Social networks in Homer’s Odyssey.  

• Report from Corinth.

• Parasites in Crusader poo from Cyprus. 

• Carving an Ionic Capital.

• Roman Pottery from the Antikythera Survey.

• Things old are new again: The innovation of Roman concrete and Disney’s multiplane camera in iOS 7. 

• Agatha Christie at Ur.

• Ancient beer. 

• How the other half (or 2/3rds?) live in Athens and lived in turn of the century New York.

• JET BIKE!!!

• Some persistent press for Punk Archaeology.

• The maps are mind-bottling.

• Typewriting.

• The last telegram. Wait… how will I communicate with my students? At least we still have the mimeograph…. what?? Noooooooooooooooo….

• This is really funny. 

• Visit Pyramiden.

• Peter Suber’s Open Access is now available open access and the Golden Age of open access archaeology. 

• North Dakotans write on Armenia and Greek immigrant experiences. When can we officially begin to discuss a North Dakota Diaspora? Plus, we have a Barth (who hasn’t diaspora-ed yet).

• It’s never too soon to start my Christmas list!

• How to make you stereo sound better for cheap.

• There are lots of things to do with books including this or that.

• Watch your fonts!

• What I’m reading: H. Meyza, Nea Paphos V: Cypriot Red Slip Ware. Varsovie 2007.

• What I’m listening to: Kanye West, Yeezus.