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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.
Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
December 31, 2008
Category: Introspection
I have made peace with the passing of the 70s. I no longer feel that the 80s is the default present decade during which everything still happens. But let me tell you, Dear Reader, in my mind the 90s still...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 12 Comments •
December 30, 2008
Category: NOIBN
A house I have been asked to check in on over the holiday season was burgled last night along with two neighbouring houses. I've been on the phone to the police and the window repairman, and then I've been showing...
Posted by Martin R at 8:16 AM • 11 Comments •
December 29, 2008
Category: Blogging
I'm still having fun and hope you are too!
Posted by Martin R at 10:42 AM • 6 Comments •
December 28, 2008
Category: Film
John Ajvide Lindqvist's 2004 debut novel Låt den rätte komma in came as a pleasant surprise. From a stand-up comedian of respectable but unremarkable standing, suddenly we had this excellent vampire novel set in a staid Stockholm suburb in 1982...
Posted by Martin R at 3:59 PM • 7 Comments •
December 24, 2008
Category: Sweden
Merry Christmas, Dear Reader! I am in a good mood, checking my mail while most of the celebrants at my dad's house watch the annual Disney special, just having dropped my kids off for dinner at my mom's place where...
Posted by Martin R at 9:32 AM • 13 Comments •
December 22, 2008
Category: Archaeology
My dentist was fascinated to see the filed teeth inlaid with jade disclets.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
The fifty-sixth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at The Greenbelt. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on 28 January,...
Posted by Martin R at 5:00 AM • 0 Comments •
December 18, 2008
Category: Homeownership
Very timely, a friend told me that his ex-employer is getting rid of furniture. We have enough for about 90 sqm, which leaves us with 24 sqm to furnish in the new house. So, I took the opportunity to...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
December 16, 2008
Category: Homeownership
Here are two snaps of my new home, taken just after breakfast today (the first bread I've baked in the house!). Both are taken toward the north: one from the kitchen door toward the dining room, the other standing...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 12 Comments •
December 15, 2008
Category: Homeownership
I'm typing this on my smartphone while digesting an evening meal of ramen noodles, egg and Chinese Sauerkraut from the tin. I'm in our new house. It's a mess, boxes everywhere. My wife is having a foot bath. Juniorette is...
Posted by Martin R at 12:07 PM • 6 Comments •
December 12, 2008
Category: Homeownership
After a bit more than seven and a half years, we're leaving our apartment on Burbot Street and moving to a 114 sqm house on Shroud Street. Fisksätra's four main housing areas have street names themed for fish, fishing...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
December 10, 2008
Category: Gaming
The Swedish language has produced three truly great fantasists. Two are internationally reknowned: Astrid Lindgren (with Pippi Longstocking) and Tove Jansson (with Moomin). The third, Erik Granström, is almost exclusively known among Swedish gaming nerds like myself. From 1987 to...
Posted by Martin R at 4:37 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
From my buddy Barry Ager at the British Museum comes big news.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
December 9, 2008
Category: Tech
Two weeks ago I left my pocket calendar on my desk at the Academy of Letters where I only work one day a week. This was inconvenient as I rely entirely on the calendar to remember what I'm supposed...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
I'm not sure whom they're insulting here.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 16 Comments •
December 8, 2008
Category: Archaeology
An Aesir god and a giantess, mythical ancestors of the era's royal lines.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 14 Comments •
December 6, 2008
Category: NOIBN
My friend of twenty years, retired broadcaster Lars Erik Åström, died the other day of cancer at age 69. Too soon by far: he has young grandchildren and he was a very good man without whom the world is worse....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
December 4, 2008
Category: Archaeology
They've stuck the Djurhamn sword point first into a vintage map of Djurö!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Biology
I am impressed by the gay dolphins' invention of nasal intercourse.
Posted by Martin R at 7:21 AM • 14 Comments •
December 3, 2008
Category: Archaeology
The fifty-fifth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Cognition and Culture. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on 31...
Posted by Martin R at 6:54 AM • 0 Comments •
December 2, 2008
Category: Humour
Conversing with a friend recently, I mused, what could be the background to the expression "batshit insane"? My friend suggested that it might have something to do with having bats in the belfry. I then wondered what the Swedish equivalent...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 30 Comments •
Category: Tech
"In the morning I left voice mail messages to call me on my mother's and sister's numbers. As I came in to work I saw S still logged in to his Skype account, where he'd left it going for his...
Posted by Martin R at 2:40 AM • 4 Comments •
December 1, 2008
Category: Books
Four of my favourite authors were born in the 1890s and wrote mainly from the inter-war years onward.H.P. Lovecraft 1890-1937 J.R.R. Tolkien 1892-1973 F.G. Bengtsson 1894-1954 F. Nilsson Piraten 1895-1972 There seems to be something about that generation's idiom, taste...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 21 Comments •
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