My continued musings on archaeology, technology, teaching, and history.
I keep practicing film photography and enjoy taking photos more than any kind of success, but here is my latest batch of developed films. These are mostly from my Nikon N90s some with a Takumar 55 mm f/1.8 lens. This photo is… bad art, but whatever. I then shot a bunch on expired Kodak UltraMax Read More
After a brutal week of travel, I’m feeling quite behind in everything: reading, writing, deadlines, the start of the semester, and recharging my batteries before a hectic fall. The late summer bustle, set against a fatigue-tinted doldrums, feels like as good a time as any for a three things Thursday. Thing the First I’ve just Read More
This past week, I visited my home town of Wilmington, Delaware. No summer visit is complete without a trip to the various suburban swimming pools where I played, swam, and worked each summer. As my brother and I visited various swim clubs (with my nephews in tow!), I was struck by how little they have Read More
On my drive from Wilmington, Delaware to Ft. Myers, Florida, I took a quick break at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida to check out their newly reinstalled Cyprus gallery which was the work of our sometime collaborator from Polis, Joanna Smith.I had never been to this museum and honestly wasn’t prepared for Read More
It’s Monday, right? I drove from Wilmington, Delaware to Jacksonville, Florida yesterday which was overall pretty pleasant (except South Carolina). I was able to get in some quality listening on my drive and enjoy 12 innings of borderline comical Phillies baseball. This is not a baseball or travel blog (you’re lucky South Carolina!), but it Read More
A few weeks ago, I walked down my alley with my half-frame Olympus PEN EE-2 camera and a roll of expired Kodak UltraMax 400 shot at ISO 100 (which accounts for a bit of the color cast). I am pretty pleased with the photos and while most of them are not “good” but any technical Read More
I’m in an Air BnB in Wilmington, Delaware right now and somewhere between airport layovers, North Carolina micro-breweries, high school golf tournaments, and road trips through the Piedmont of NC and Virginia, I lost track of what day of the week it was. For some reason, it has really bothered me that I got my Read More
I’ve been reading more about AI lately trying to get my feet set in the rapidly developing conversation. On my flight to the east coast I read Emily Bender’s and Alex Hanna’s The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech s Hype and Create the Future We Want (2025) which occasionally gets cited as a good Read More
I’m taking a day off and walked around downtown Greensboro a bit while visiting my brother. It’s the kind of cloudy day that brings out something in the mid-century architecture that graces the city’s downtown. The former Federal Home Loan Bank of Greensboro (aka “the mushroom building”; ca. 1968) by Praise Connor Lee: The Elon Read More
This week had some desultory work on various projects, a bit of reading, and some travel. I’m working to adjust my expectations in terms of what I can and need to get done before the start of the fall semester. My classes are mostly set up even if I’ve not quite figured out all the Read More