A friend of mine asked about book recommendations for Northern Gaul. I pulled together a brief bibliography and sent it to her. I’m also including it here in case other people find it useful. Cunliffe, B. W. (1988) Greeks, Romans, and barbarians : Spheres of interaction. New York, Methuen. ISBN 0416019919 Derks, Ton. (1998) Gods, Temples and Religious Practices: The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul. Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 2....
Continue reading...October 2007
Friday Night Vampires!
I’ve always enjoyed vampire stories. Whether the self-flagellating Louis or flamboyant Lestat from Anne Rice’s books, there is something enthralling about the stories. I’m an avid Doctor Who fan. One of my favorite episodes is Season 2 “Girl in the Fireplace,” where the Doctor (played by David Tennant) meets the Madame de Pompadour (played by Sophia Myles). The energy between them was wonderful. Great scenes. (Rumour has it after the episode Tennant and...
Continue reading...From a Yarn Junkie
You know who you are. It was too precious to not post. Fiber loves me this I know, for my spindle tells me so Lots of yarn to me belong, to feed my habit sheep are shorn. Yes, fiber loves me, yes fiber loves me, yes fiber loves me, but my psychiatrist tells me “no” Related Images:
Continue reading...Which Monty Python sketch character are you?
What Monty Python Sketch Character are you? You are the Abuse Clerk! You dish out verbal (and some physical!) abuse all day long…as long as the customer keeps payin’! Aaah…such satisfying work!Take this quiz! Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code Related Images:
Continue reading...iPhone Unlocked?
Ah ha! Engadget is reporting that the iPhone will launch in France on the Orange network. France has unlocking laws… so what will that mean? Maybe the iPhones sold in France will be unlocked? (evil laughter ensues) Related Images:
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From Slashdot: An anonymous reader writes to let us know that Verizon Wireless is planning to share its customers’ calling records (called CPNI) with “our affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries.” The article explains that CPNI “includes the numbers of incoming and outgoing calls and time spent on each call, among other data.” Some subscribers, it’s not known if it’s all of them, received a letter in the mail...
Continue reading...The Seeker: Movie vs. Book (Spoilers)
I have my copy of The Dark Is Rising (both a first edition paper back and a SF book club edition with all five volumes bound together) out and I am watching The Seeker (if you search for it, you’ll find a video of the movie on Google Video). The Seeker is a recently-released adaptation of Susan Cooper’s 1974 Newberry Award-winning book, The Dark Is Rising, the second book of five in The...
Continue reading...Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising
Susan Cooper’s series, The Dark is Rising, is slated to be made into movies. At least the first book, which came out on Friday, is the first in the set. Two of the four books in the Dark is Rising series are Newberry Award winners. It’s one of my favorite series. She is amazing. That series is probably one of the primary reasons why I’m interested in Arthurian mythology and Welsh lore. The...
Continue reading...Happy Dance!
After many hours of searching and trying software, I have a unicode text reader/editor called AnyView on my cell phone that is capable of opening the artifact list for epona.net! WHEE!! This might not sound like much of an accomplishment, but for a linux-based mobile phone with only 8 MB of RAM to open a 600k+ text file is no small feat. Every other piece of software I’ve tested could not open the...
Continue reading...Arabians and Numidians
Arabian horse owners often talk about the Arabian horse as being one of the oldest breeds. And they are, thanks in large park to the work of the Bedouin tribes preserving this lovely breed and recording the pedigrees. What if we turned the clock back two thousand years? Would someone like Caesar or Hannibal recognize the modern Arabian? I think they both would, because the ancestor of the Arabian horse, the Numidian or...
Continue reading...Patented check boxes?
Apparently, IBM has patented a basic of a UI (from Slashdot): theodp writes “What do you call it when you drag a pointer over a checkbox to select or deselect it depending on its original state? Answer: US Patent 7,278,116. On Tuesday, the USPTO awarded IBM a patent for Mode Switching for Ad Hoc Checkbox Selection, aka Making an ‘X’. Isn’t this essentially the same concept as the older Lotus Notes selection model...
Continue reading...Strange Dreams
I had a really creepy dream last night. Last night I had stomach and menstrual cramps. (BLEH) So you’d expect strange dreams. I had to do a training session for site access for a client last night. Completed that before going to bed. (30 slides, took about half an hour). The dream was about going to the client’s visitor’s center to renew my badge. I had met all of the requirements except suddenly...
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