Poppies along our fence
- My wife receives her second university degree today. In addition to her 15 years in journalism, she is now also a trained psychologist. Go YuSie!!!
- I assume 45’s lawyers cleared the covfefe tweet?
- Small but very satisfying discovery. In 1902 a Medieval coin is found at Skällvik Castle. The finder makes a detailed drawing of the coin and sends coin & drawing to the authorities, who promptly lose track of the coin. Gone. In 1954 a list is drawn up of twelve Medieval coins found at nearby Stegeborg Castle. In 1983 the list is published — and suddenly there are thirteen coins on it. And the additional coin has a completely unexpected date, for Stegeborg, which was ruinous at the time. And the coin looks identical to the one that went missing in 1902…
- Chinese prime minister offers voice of reason on climate, unlike POTUS. Yay, Republicans. Go you. /-:
- Jrette comes home from first pop gig without parents. Describes ace female guitarist+bassist.
- Whew, a final close call. The Johan & Jakob Söderberg Foundation comes through and saves my bacon for the last seven months that I plan to subsist on grants. Ample time to finish my castles book. Ask for me a year from now, and you shall most likely find me a contract archaeology man.
- 18th anniversary with YuSie! And tea, and sunshine!
- The HPV vaccine is already putting a big dent in the cancer statistics! And remember: here’s something young men can do to improve the health of future grandmothers. And to keep their penises wart-free.
- In Jrette’s opinion, I’m pretty frenetic.
- Almost bought Turkish bulgur. Then I remembered Erdogan and his rural power base. “Too bad, politically deluded durum wheat farmers”, said I, and bought wheat from Västergötland instead.
- I like novellas, 120-150 pp. Very few multihundredpage novels are worth the time.
- Cousin E beat me big at Patchwork again. Seems that with the summer approaching, the threat of having to sleep in the yard is no longer very effective.
- I think it’s pretty neat that the designer of a game is often not a particularly strong player of that game. Inventing something with emergent properties that others discover.
- The Wow Signal: it was a comet that hadn’t been discovered at the time.
- “Squamous” means “scaly”.
- “Rugose” means “has a folded/wrinkled surface” and is cognate with “corrugated”.
- “Gibbous” describes the moon when it’s between half and full, and descends from the Latin word for hump.
- Sorry to see the Tories get ahead of Labour in the UK elections. Right now it’s 47 to 40%. Some consolation though that UKIP has been wiped out entirely.
- Someone plz explain how the UK election result represents any diminished Tory ability to get stuff through Parliament! *confused*
- Haha, now I get it. Brits are super confused to have what us Swedes call “a normal coalition government”.
- Before coming into a song, a bass player will often do this little slide along a string, “bwoing”, to announce her presence. What’s that called?
- Here’s a piece of good news. During the past three summers’ fieldwork at Medieval castles, we dry-screened the dirt through 4 mm mesh. We also collected soil samples, a selection of which palaeobotanist Jennie Andersson has checked for carbonised plant remains. Jennie also found lots of tiny bones in the soil samples. Now osteologist Lena Nilsson has analysed the bones that Jennie found. And good news, as I said: no new animal species. If we had wet-screened the dirt through sub-4-mm mesh, we would certainly have found a greater number of bone fragments. But it would have been enormously costly in terms of money and labour. And it seems likely that we would not have identified additional animal species.
- I found my hair! It’s currently on my chest, below my navel and in an amazing profusion on the small of my back. Really been wondering where it had gone to.
- Listening attentively to the Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” for the first time. What a strange & interesting production! It’s so dense and distant, kind of indistinct with no air in it. Like you’re underwater. Or nodding off on heroin, I imagine.
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Poppies along our fence
- My wife receives her second university degree today. In addition to her 15 years in journalism, she is now also a trained psychologist. Go YuSie!!!
- I assume 45’s lawyers cleared the covfefe tweet?
- Small but very satisfying discovery. In 1902 a Medieval coin is found at Skällvik Castle. The finder makes a detailed drawing of the coin and sends coin & drawing to the authorities, who promptly lose track of the coin. Gone. In 1954 a list is drawn up of twelve Medieval coins found at nearby Stegeborg Castle. In 1983 the list is published — and suddenly there are thirteen coins on it. And the additional coin has a completely unexpected date, for Stegeborg, which was ruinous at the time. And the coin looks identical to the one that went missing in 1902…
- Chinese prime minister offers voice of reason on climate, unlike POTUS. Yay, Republicans. Go you. /-:
- Jrette comes home from first pop gig without parents. Describes ace female guitarist+bassist.
- Whew, a final close call. The Johan & Jakob Söderberg Foundation comes through and saves my bacon for the last seven months that I plan to subsist on grants. Ample time to finish my castles book. Ask for me a year from now, and you shall most likely find me a contract archaeology man.
- 18th anniversary with YuSie! And tea, and sunshine!
- The HPV vaccine is already putting a big dent in the cancer statistics! And remember: here’s something young men can do to improve the health of future grandmothers. And to keep their penises wart-free.
- In Jrette’s opinion, I’m pretty frenetic.
- Almost bought Turkish bulgur. Then I remembered Erdogan and his rural power base. “Too bad, politically deluded durum wheat farmers”, said I, and bought wheat from Västergötland instead.
- I like novellas, 120-150 pp. Very few multihundredpage novels are worth the time.
- Cousin E beat me big at Patchwork again. Seems that with the summer approaching, the threat of having to sleep in the yard is no longer very effective.
- I think it’s pretty neat that the designer of a game is often not a particularly strong player of that game. Inventing something with emergent properties that others discover.
- The Wow Signal: it was a comet that hadn’t been discovered at the time.
- “Squamous” means “scaly”.
- “Rugose” means “has a folded/wrinkled surface” and is cognate with “corrugated”.
- “Gibbous” describes the moon when it’s between half and full, and descends from the Latin word for hump.
- Sorry to see the Tories get ahead of Labour in the UK elections. Right now it’s 47 to 40%. Some consolation though that UKIP has been wiped out entirely.
- Someone plz explain how the UK election result represents any diminished Tory ability to get stuff through Parliament! *confused*
- Haha, now I get it. Brits are super confused to have what us Swedes call “a normal coalition government”.
- Before coming into a song, a bass player will often do this little slide along a string, “bwoing”, to announce her presence. What’s that called?
- Here’s a piece of good news. During the past three summers’ fieldwork at Medieval castles, we dry-screened the dirt through 4 mm mesh. We also collected soil samples, a selection of which palaeobotanist Jennie Andersson has checked for carbonised plant remains. Jennie also found lots of tiny bones in the soil samples. Now osteologist Lena Nilsson has analysed the bones that Jennie found. And good news, as I said: no new animal species. If we had wet-screened the dirt through sub-4-mm mesh, we would certainly have found a greater number of bone fragments. But it would have been enormously costly in terms of money and labour. And it seems likely that we would not have identified additional animal species.
- I found my hair! It’s currently on my chest, below my navel and in an amazing profusion on the small of my back. Really been wondering where it had gone to.
- Listening attentively to the Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” for the first time. What a strange & interesting production! It’s so dense and distant, kind of indistinct with no air in it. Like you’re underwater. Or nodding off on heroin, I imagine.
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