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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.
January 30, 2009
Category: Blogging
The fifty-ninth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at A Very Remote Period Indeed. 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...
Posted by Martin R at 1:24 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
He explained that though he is definitely not a philosophical materialist, he hesitates to call himself a dualist, preferring to speak of a "oneness".
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 22 Comments •
January 28, 2009
Category: Archaeology
Fornvännen -- Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research has had a number of different cover designs over the past century and the colour of the stock has varied. Starting with the first issue for 1966, it has had a beige rusticated...
Posted by Martin R at 8:22 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Tech
My switch from the iPod of course led to a huge drop in the ease of use.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
January 26, 2009
Category: Travel
Next week I'm going to Chester in England to visit the archaeology department there and accept a position as Visiting Research Fellow. I'll be in town from 2 to 6 February. Any Dear Readers in that neck of the woods...
Posted by Martin R at 1:27 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: China
Happy Chinese New Year, everybody! Today is the first day of the year of the Ox according to the farmers' calendar. The Rundkvist family is heavily secularised, to the extent that I have let slip almost all Western observances...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
January 25, 2009
Category: Introspection
Being a married man and a father of small children, I am very rarely alone in the workday evenings or weekends. Indeed, in the past five or or six years, my capacity for sustained self-entertainment (yeah, yeah, OK; "nudge, nudge")...
Posted by Martin R at 9:56 AM • 22 Comments •
January 24, 2009
Category: Language
In Chinese, polite figures of speech mark a distance.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 65 Comments •
January 23, 2009
Category: Film
A few years ago my friend David the Psychonaut gave me an mp3 file with the greatest song, "Jan Pehechan-Ho" by Mohammed Rafi. And now another friend, Tanya the Cosmopolite, links to the song's over-the top Bollywood dance number,...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
January 22, 2009
Category: Archaeology
The US needs a set of simple federal blanket laws protecting all archaeological sites equally.
Posted by Martin R at 3:45 PM • 4 Comments •
January 21, 2009
Category: Archaeology
A veteran scholar appeals to Thomas Kuhn's old theory of paradigm shifts in order to evade criticism of her work.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 22 Comments •
January 20, 2009
Category: Archaeology
The Gotland specimen was kept above ground, in use and in repair from the Middle Ages until recently at a farmstead.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
January 19, 2009
Category: Tech
The bandwidth of a wifi connection is extremely sensitive to obstacles.
Posted by Martin R at 9:03 AM • 5 Comments •
January 18, 2009
Category: Archaeology
It's the largest Iron Age gold coin hoard reported from Britain since 1849.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
January 17, 2009
Category: Language
Hear ye, Americans! When you put that gratuitous "of" there, you sound like demented hillbillies!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 38 Comments •
January 16, 2009
Category: Homeownership
After a bit less than a month's wait our new house is finally on-line! The winter of our off-line discontent dissolvèd made glorious broadband summer. So far only at 11 Mbps when we were promised at least 12, but the...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
January 15, 2009
Category: Tech
Today's the eighth birthday of that excellent open on-line encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Posted by Martin R at 4:52 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
The fifty-eighth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Moneduloides. 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, two...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
January 14, 2009
Category: Film
When I was offered a review copy of the new documentary film 10 Yards Fantasy Football, I replied, "No use sending that to a guy with no interest either in real nor imaginary football. But please do send me your...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Blogging
It's been over half a year since the last de-lurk. Aard currently has over 150 returning visitors daily (out of about 730 uniques). Since not everyone checks in every day, this translates to several hundred -- possibly a thousand --...
Posted by Martin R at 3:27 AM • 44 Comments •
January 13, 2009
Category: Archaeology
If by a "steady job" you mean one that is contracted to last until retirement, then I have had only one in my life so far.
Posted by Martin R at 9:55 AM • 17 Comments •
January 12, 2009
Category: Skepticism
The flu costs a week of lost work during which you feel like one of the restless dead.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
January 9, 2009
Category: Politics
Most of us at Sb are screaming pinko dirty commie hippies.
Posted by Martin R at 8:38 AM • 8 Comments •
January 8, 2009
Category: Blogging
Daniel of Neuroanthropology has made an excellent roundup of last year's best anthro blogging. Check it out!...
Posted by Martin R at 2:34 PM • 2 Comments •
January 7, 2009
Category: Blogging
Having moved recently to a house wired only with telephone copper, my family and I are now into our fourth week without an internet connection. It's a really frustrating way to learn just how dependent we've become on the net....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
January 6, 2009
Category: Food
Yesterday I made boiled pretzels from Horn, which are basically slightly sweet bagels.
Posted by Martin R at 8:21 AM • 9 Comments •
January 5, 2009
Category: Archaeology
The film is good edutainment, but has a number of flaws.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
January 4, 2009
Category: Space
These machines were originally meant to work for three months, yet they continue to trundle around that cold, distant planet.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
January 3, 2009
Category: Archaeology
The fifty-seventh Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Testimony of the Spade. 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...
Posted by Martin R at 7:35 AM • 0 Comments •
January 2, 2009
Category: Homeownership
The houses in our new neighbourhood are clones of one basic design: an L-shaped single-story structure with a fenced yard inside the angle of the L. The main entrance (1) is on one of the L's outer long walls. The...
Posted by Martin R at 8:30 AM • 4 Comments •
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