Entries from December 2007

December 29, 2007

End of an Ear

See, I do print media too.
If you’re ever in Austin, check out End of an Ear, one of the few remaining great record stores.
I’m having an incredibly wonderful holiday–I hope all y’all are having the same.
PS: Anyone have advice on dealing with family/artifacts?  I keep having a couple of them bring me artifacts to look [...]

December 20, 2007

Mission Life

“He woke in the nave of a ruinous church, blinking up at the vaulted ceiling and the tall swagged walls with their faded frescos. The floor of the church was deep in dried guano and the dropping of cattle and sheep. Pigeons flapped through the piers of dusty light and three buzzards hobbled [...]

December 17, 2007

Io Saturnalia!

I wish I could be celebrating today in true Roman style, but I’ve still got too much work to do.  I’ll have to do it up right next year by having a party.  Friday, the day after the semester ends, I’ll be headed off to Colorado for an appropriately snowy Christmas, then back to [...]

December 14, 2007

Decisions….

I find these equal parts hilarious, obnoxious, and oddly compelling. I could wear them both at the same time! At a conference!
If only they had a “post-futurist” necklace, I’d be set. If only all archaeologists would so kindly wear their theoretical inclinations and aspirations around their necks. What would your necklace [...]

December 11, 2007

Climbing Trees

So we finally had a full day of archaeological outreach at the Presidio, where we were able to work through our full program with a group of kids. At times I’ve been pretty tired of outreach, and wanting to get back to archaeology proper, but being able to interact with these kids was actually [...]

December 1, 2007

More Comics + New Presidio Blog + Robots

This is the semester that refuses to die! Die, semester, die!
Anyway, so I made (even more) comics about how to make mudbrick and posted them to flickr. I don’t really like the front page much (it’s rehash), so here’s the third page:

I think I’ll use this as the example comic for my short [...]