- I'm a single dad now for two weeks while my wife's in China shooting interviews for a documentary series.
- Aard's been getting a lot of comment spam lately, and the filter isn't working properly, so I've turned on comment moderation.
- After digging in that cave I did four hours of metal detecting at the Lilla Härnevi hoard site because it has been ploughed and harrowed since April when we were there in force. Only one semi-worthwhile metal find: one of those fyrk coins of Queen Christina's. Also two pieces of knapped imported flint, and Magdalena found a grindstone. No hoard bits.
- I bought two LED lamps for the cave dig. When I put batteries into one of them it emitted a puff of smoke smelling of burnt circuitry. Never seen AA batteries do that before. The other lamp worked though.
- 8-y-o Juniorette held her own against three adults at Hansa and Acquire yesterday.
- Finished reading Erik Davis's 2010 essay collection Nomad Codes last night. He's a materialist who's into non-believing spirituality and hallucinogenic drugs and who writes really well. Some really good stuff in there, despite (or thanks to) his alien world of thought!
- I find that Twitter (follow me there) is robbing the blog of short entries. Below are some recent tweets.
- Took the Beatles 3 yrs from "She loves you yeah yeah yeah" to "Lay down all thought, surrender to the void, it is shining".
- As an archaeologist, I dig while William Burroughs.
- Are self-torturing Indian holy men sadhu-masochists?
- You could prepare for a zombie walk by burying a set of clothes together with some pork for a year.
- Visby house for sale with in situ Medieval burial under glass in basement.
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"You could prepare for a zombie walk by burying a set of clothes together with some pork for a year."
A good opportunity to try this:
"Microbiologist discovers new super-preservative" http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-microbiologist-super-preservative.h…
Track down the spammers and you can substitute Long Pig for pork at the zombie walk.
"8-y-o Juniorette held her own against three adults at Hansa and Acquire yesterday."
But did she drag their bodies back home? My four-legged ones are irritating that way.
Damn, missed the latest episode of Dexter.
"Saudi find shows horses used 9,000 years ago" http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-saudi-horses-years.html
This is when Sahel extended 1000km further north, and a bigger part of the Arabian peninsula was fertile.
Yours Birger J.
PS. I thought Magdalena was an era.
This weekend, Swedish journalists revealed that IKEA founder and owner was more than "just a bit" pro-Nazi during WWII.
And here is more nausea-inducing reporting, just to put you in a frame for Monday:
"When murderers do your propaganda" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/28/1011325/-When-murderers-do-you…-?via=spotlight
As an archaeologist, I dig while William Burroughs.
very good!
Thank you Sir! I wondered if I should've made that "... like William Burroughs".
(OT) 2,000-year-old burial box could reveal location of the family of Caiaphas
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-year-old-burial-reveal-family-caiap…
The method they use to authenticate the box and inscriptions is interesting.