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thanateThe new neighbors from two houses down were outside holding shouted conversations with a friend of theirs on a very noisy motorcycle at 1:30 in the morning, so much of today has been spent with me wandering around Columbia (after going down to check that yes, I still have a proto-baby, and it still has a heartbeat) and wishing that there were a good place to take a nap. I fear that so far the only good thing I have to say about the new neighbors is that they aren't right next to us, but that does seem a little hard on the nice lesbian couple in the in-between house who get to listen to hateful right-wing radio & put up with smokers next door. Ugh.
Anyway, things!
Archaeology-based ancient cookbook! (now, in English as well as Danish) I sort of want one, or at least the chance to look at it, though given the vast quantities of SCA-period cooking resources available, I wish they'd concentrated on the ancient world stuff and done more geographic diversification. I mean, I know people have done residue analysis from ancient middle eastern sites, and there were the 4-thousand-year-old noodles from the Yellow River, so I can't imagine there isn't a bunch of other stuff out there...
On a related note, I am sadly disappointed that my archaeological colleagues, who often went out to Dogfish Head after work, never once mentioned that they do archaeologically-based brews. Possibly someday I will have to take the grauwulf there so that I can get him to order something I want to taste. (um... because "I must try this!" does not always equate to having any expectation of liking it.)
The world's largest cave (yet discovered.) (presumably in Vietnam, though the article doesn't quite say so in as many words) Anyway, it makes Carlsbad look small. Pretty pictures.
A really neat article on why Machiavelli was pretty cool with a good background sketch of how the Italian Renaissance looked from the inside. Long, but crunchy and interesting and definitely worth reading if you haven't seen it yet. (Several writing-people linked to this a while back, but I didn't see it cross the divide to SCA or other history-interested types, so I share. Now that we're all back from Pennsic, even.)
Doll people-- not that I think anyone on my friends list needs to be spending more money any more than I do at the moment, but are you guys aware of Nanoblocks? Itty bitty lego-things! Cute!
(And, if for some reason there's anyone who hasn't been following what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
batchix is up to recently, you must check out her mini machina, who is absolutely adorable and makes the second doll I would really like to buy from her, if only [thing with baby & being a responsible adult, whine, whine])
NASA's top-10 stories from global satellite pictures. Stuff you can see from space, over time. Fascinating, though a bit depressing as a lot of it is our fault.
Now I should look into that thing with making food, because I have an acorn squash to stuff, which requires cooking something to stuff it with first. Decisions, decisions...
Xposty from dreamwidth.
Anyway, things!
Archaeology-based ancient cookbook! (now, in English as well as Danish) I sort of want one, or at least the chance to look at it, though given the vast quantities of SCA-period cooking resources available, I wish they'd concentrated on the ancient world stuff and done more geographic diversification. I mean, I know people have done residue analysis from ancient middle eastern sites, and there were the 4-thousand-year-old noodles from the Yellow River, so I can't imagine there isn't a bunch of other stuff out there...
On a related note, I am sadly disappointed that my archaeological colleagues, who often went out to Dogfish Head after work, never once mentioned that they do archaeologically-based brews. Possibly someday I will have to take the grauwulf there so that I can get him to order something I want to taste. (um... because "I must try this!" does not always equate to having any expectation of liking it.)
The world's largest cave (yet discovered.) (presumably in Vietnam, though the article doesn't quite say so in as many words) Anyway, it makes Carlsbad look small. Pretty pictures.
A really neat article on why Machiavelli was pretty cool with a good background sketch of how the Italian Renaissance looked from the inside. Long, but crunchy and interesting and definitely worth reading if you haven't seen it yet. (Several writing-people linked to this a while back, but I didn't see it cross the divide to SCA or other history-interested types, so I share. Now that we're all back from Pennsic, even.)
Doll people-- not that I think anyone on my friends list needs to be spending more money any more than I do at the moment, but are you guys aware of Nanoblocks? Itty bitty lego-things! Cute!
(And, if for some reason there's anyone who hasn't been following what
batchix is up to recently, you must check out her mini machina, who is absolutely adorable and makes the second doll I would really like to buy from her, if only [thing with baby & being a responsible adult, whine, whine])NASA's top-10 stories from global satellite pictures. Stuff you can see from space, over time. Fascinating, though a bit depressing as a lot of it is our fault.
Now I should look into that thing with making food, because I have an acorn squash to stuff, which requires cooking something to stuff it with first. Decisions, decisions...
Xposty from dreamwidth.