Friday Varia and Quick Hits
After a week away from varia and quick hits, I have an abundance of links and goodies filling up my Evernote inbox. And this is a good thing for the hardy residents of North Dakotaland who will be asked to endure some snow this weekend.
Fresh from Guy Sander’s Facebook feed, the entire range of Byzantine Emperors on coins from Dumbarton Oaks, including my favorite emperor, Justinian II.
If you can overlook the funny font, this is pretty cool way to look at the Acropolis online (via Dimitri Nakassis).
Town of Ghosts. This is a striking video (via. Richard Rothaus).
I’m trying Evernote 5 (beta). It looks pretty sweet.
A paper on how the location of bathrooms can promote interdisciplinary collaboration (via the Chronicle). As someone whose day is punctuated by trips to the bathroom, I can really appreciate how these short contemplative walks can encourage creativity.
The dash is perhaps the worst punctuation mark (and has only recently been usurped by the semicolon in terms of popularity among students). That being said, there is still a right and wrong way to us it.
My blog crossed the 50,000 all-time page views threshold this past week with my second busiest month on since moving to WordPress in in 2010.
I went to my first University Senate meeting last night as a senator. I am speechless.
So apparently it was illegal to campaign on election day in North Dakota. This was really a remarkable violation of our first amendment rights, and a judge has overturned it.
We are the Theory Generation (via Kostis Kourelis).
I don’t really know whether these month long writing productivity drives work, but there is an academic one going on now.
This recent paper surely explains why my students who refuse to make eye contact when they haven’t done the readings.
Waters for a Capital sounds like a cool conference on the water supply of Byzantine Constantinople.
This bodes well for next week’s big test. Let’s how Australia’s test batsmen were just saving themselves.
What I’m reading: Journal of Early Christian Studies, Everett Ferguson’s Baptism in the Early Church: A Forum.
What I’m listening to: Mac Demarco, 2; Rodriguez, Coming from Reality.
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