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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Having Fun
Friday night, I made tacos and chocolate chip cookies with my kids. Saturday, I attended the Imagicon 2 speculative fiction conference, chairing a panel on time travel and forming part of a panel on legal aspects of interstellar empires without...
Posted by Martin R at 1:18 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Children
We spent Friday afternoon and evening walking in the sunshine, eating like kings, listening to some pretty far-out and eclectic music and playing the Swedish 70s board game Marinattack.
Posted by Martin R at 10:12 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Played the new German board game Finca that my friend Eddie the heathen goldsmith brought along. It's an abstract system lightly dressed up in a story about harvesting and distributing fruit and greens on Mallorca of all things. Good fun...
Posted by Martin R at 4:07 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The 6th Aardvarchaeology blogmeet was a friendly three-hour affair with good food, good drink and good company. 'Twas me, Kai, Mårten, Per G, Sigmund, Thinker and Tor, and an excellent time was had at Akkurat. Here's the historical record...
Posted by Martin R at 3:54 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Logged four geocaches. One helped me discover a huge vestigial highway overpass. Highway 222 was built in the early '70s, and at one spot west of Nacka high school the road engineers thought that they might one day want to...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Sweden
Imagine a flat gneiss and granite plateau criss-crossed by huge faults and crevices. Now run a few glaciations across it, sanding it down real good, so that everything is rounded.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Tech
Saturday me and the kids went on an unusual package tour. First we took the 1903 steam ship Mariefred from Stockholm to Mariefred, and got to visit the engine room while the machine was working. Mariefred is a small...
Posted by Martin R at 2:51 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
It's been one of the warmest and sunniest weeks in a long time. Saturday I invited friends old and new over: we played a game of Tigris & Euphrates, two games of kubb (no, it is not an old Viking...
Posted by Martin R at 12:05 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
The Rundkvist family right before we went in and apprehended the extraterrestrial. Photo F. Gilljam. Friday was Mid-summer's Eve. Cycled with the kids to the local maypole celebration. Back home, I assembled the first barbecue I've ever owned and...
Posted by Martin R at 4:40 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
Attended the Where Is the Action rock festival with my wife, heard a lot of good music, much of it new to me. Details here and here. Shopped for presents and spent an hour having cake and reading, all in...
Posted by Martin R at 5:23 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
The way I like to lead my life is basically Epicurean: "Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility and freedom from fear as well as absence of bodily...
Posted by Martin R at 11:13 AM • 35 Comments •
Category: Having Fun
... stared in fascination at beautifully (and rather scantily) clad people, received not inconsiderable admiration ourselves ...
Posted by Martin R at 10:10 AM • 5 Comments •
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