Look out behind you, Mr. Caesar!
So, what's new? Still waiting for further word about forthright's job situation, and trying not to get my hopes up in any way, shape, or form. If all goes as expected, we should hear back from Job 1 in the near future (possibly by the end of this week, even) and consequently every time the phone rings during work hours I just about have a heart attack. *sigh*
Still working on co-authored paper, though waiting for much busier co-author to answer some questions at present before I can proceed.
We've downloaded Rome so we can finally watch it, a million years after everyone else. We're almost to the end of Season 1, and I'm sure everything's going to be just fine. Yes. Nothing could possibly go wrong now. *firm nods* (Also, Pullo is very Boden-esque, but Vorenus is only superficially Kalman-esque.)
The thing that intrigues me most about it, from a historical perspective, is not the changes they've made to events (I mean, we don't know they weren't lesbians), timeline (massive compression ftw), or the personalities they've grafted onto figures we know next to nothing about (*coughAtia*), but the religion stuff. It's so complex and detailed, it seems like they must be drawing on something, but I don't know enough about Roman religion to evaluate it. Like, the priests with the extra fake heads attached to their heads? AWESOME, but I have no idea if it's accurate. Steve is particularly enamoured of the town crier dude and his elaborate wacky hand gestures - I'm guessing there are probably surviving books of rhetorical techniques that suggest hand gestures to go along with one's words, but that's just speculation on my part. Any religion experts/classicists out there have thoughts? YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. (Actually, I think at least one of you made a post about Rome at some point, but I can't track it down now. Woe.)
Steve went all floobly over the abacus that Niobe uses in one episode. I mean! It's got beads on wires, which is anachronistic in the extreme. Roman abaci were boards with pebbles! Steve probably has further complaints to register on that subject, though the offending device was only visible for about 10 seconds.
Other than that, not much. I write, I read, I make icons. I've started a sourdough culture and if it turns out, hopefully I'll be making bread in the near future. I could go for some bread right now, actually... *wanders off hungrily*
Still working on co-authored paper, though waiting for much busier co-author to answer some questions at present before I can proceed.
We've downloaded Rome so we can finally watch it, a million years after everyone else. We're almost to the end of Season 1, and I'm sure everything's going to be just fine. Yes. Nothing could possibly go wrong now. *firm nods* (Also, Pullo is very Boden-esque, but Vorenus is only superficially Kalman-esque.)
The thing that intrigues me most about it, from a historical perspective, is not the changes they've made to events (I mean, we don't know they weren't lesbians), timeline (massive compression ftw), or the personalities they've grafted onto figures we know next to nothing about (*coughAtia*), but the religion stuff. It's so complex and detailed, it seems like they must be drawing on something, but I don't know enough about Roman religion to evaluate it. Like, the priests with the extra fake heads attached to their heads? AWESOME, but I have no idea if it's accurate. Steve is particularly enamoured of the town crier dude and his elaborate wacky hand gestures - I'm guessing there are probably surviving books of rhetorical techniques that suggest hand gestures to go along with one's words, but that's just speculation on my part. Any religion experts/classicists out there have thoughts? YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. (Actually, I think at least one of you made a post about Rome at some point, but I can't track it down now. Woe.)
Steve went all floobly over the abacus that Niobe uses in one episode. I mean! It's got beads on wires, which is anachronistic in the extreme. Roman abaci were boards with pebbles! Steve probably has further complaints to register on that subject, though the offending device was only visible for about 10 seconds.
Other than that, not much. I write, I read, I make icons. I've started a sourdough culture and if it turns out, hopefully I'll be making bread in the near future. I could go for some bread right now, actually... *wanders off hungrily*