The book on the Battle of Brunanburh that I’m putting together is coming together quite nicely. Today found me deep into the Old English materials, which was fun. It did throw me another curveball, though, as I had to grapple with how to represent a few runic letters in the …
Terrific basketball game tonight: an overtime win over Appalachian State. The crowd was in good form, and I even caught a t-shirt thrown into the crowd. I promptly tossed it to a kid sitting nearby.
I’m really getting a kick out of the sudden media interest in the immortal jellyfish conquering our oceans. This isn’t news to scientists — in fact, the paper media folks are citing is something like 7 months old — but here it is on the frontpage of my Google News …
I noted earlier that I was spending my weekend putting together my PDS, a year-in-review summary of my career that’s used to determine whether The Citadel will keep me around. I proudly presented the finished product to my chair this morning — first one in! — who was happy to …
How did I not know about this? http://failblog.org/ I just spent an hour laughing my butt off while simultaneously mourning the downward spiral of humanity.