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April Pieces Of My Mind #2 [Aardvarchaeology]
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 5:57
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- Is there any HBTQ aware research in heterocyclic chemistry?
- I don’t like goat’s cheese. As far as I’m concerned the goats could just stop making it.
- Josh Homme always impresses me.
- Ticking boxes for the upcoming fieldwork season, feels good. Landowners at two high-profile sites have given their permission. Both permit applications sent to the County Museum for checking prior to their submission to the County Archaeologist. Housing for the team booked at one site, and I have a good lead on housing at the other site too. Archive reports on last year’s fieldwork almost done.
- This pea soup has been colonised by lactobacillus. It smells like sour dough.
- Confused by the many similarities between the 1997 movie In & Out and Michael Chabon’s 1995 novel Wonder Boys, which wasn’t filmed until 2000.
- I have the same attitude to superhero comics and movies as I have to spectator sports. I’d prefer it if they would just go away.
- It never ceases to amaze me that the news reported on tabloid placards is largely about events inside reality TV shows. It suggests to me that we should get rid of tabloids, of reality TV shows and of the general public.
- Graphic designers! You cannot grab the first couple of sentences from an article and use them as a graphically distinct opener for the piece — perhaps even on the preceding page. The writer has to give you something written for that purpose.
- ’15 April was my 17th anniversary as Managing Editor of Fornvännen. Not counting the three scholars who just joined the editorial board, the journal has had 20 credited editors since the first issue in 1906. Four of them have served longer than I have so far.
- Celebrating Record Store Day by streaming some sweet tunes from Deezer.
- Annual dance recital where you get to see five minutes of Jrette being awesome, five minutes of teen dancers being competent and 110 minutes of other people’s small children prancing about in semi-confusion.
- Becoming increasingly aware of the Bourdieuan persecution fantasy in the post-modern humanities. If they meet opposition then it means they’re right.
- About environmental degradation: I live in an area where the environment has improved over my lifetime. Thanks to the move of heavy manufacturing to the Third World, and to legislation about leaded gas, PCB, recycling etc. I’ve seen the beavers, seals and white-tailed eagles return. I’ve seen acid rain and the ozone hole disappear from the agenda. No wonder people flee to Sweden.
- Tried to listen to a Nightwish song. Imagine a late Scorpions track, a female singer, a really heavy Finnish accent. I could not take it.
- “And now I’m gonna sing the Perry Mason theme.” *out-of-tune keening*
- In the 1180s a French abbot wrote to King Canute IV of Denmark requesting some construction funding for his monastery. In the letter, the abbot points out that Danes destroyed a lot of towns and monasteries during the Viking Period.
- In moments of grandiose self-estimation, I muse that giving me solid university resources for my research only after age 45 is like giving Paul McCartney access to multi-track recording gear only after 1987.
- Free style tip: to appear really old, put quotation marks around words that were considered colloquial or slang 40 years ago but which are now uncontroversial. It’ll keep you from looking “cool”!
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2016/04/20/april-pieces-of-my-mind-2-3/
