happy birthday tpod, she of the personal and boyfriend-type dorkitude, and also cuteness in hats. cupcake? more cute boys? :D ( Read more... )

i had a new & improved nano idea driving home from work yesterday, to wit: a westward ho! type apocafic. as in, some east coast person packs up and goes west and kind of collects other survivors along the way in a modern day wagon train caravan kind of thing. somehow they have to keep their vehicles gassed up and their selves fed and then they ( Read more... )

roman-britain.org
roman military glossary
roman military sites in britain
encyclopedia of roman emperors (with maps!)
flax wiki
ancient roman writing supplies
roman writing tablet (tabulae)
houses, customs, instutitions (long and texty, got more links at the end)

camelot village (roman army)
roman clothing, pt 1
republic to empire (history, ( Read more... )

remember how i said my picfor1000 story was longer than the 1000 words i wrote for it? and that it wants me to write more? (did i mention that the boys keep having sex in my head? >.< ) i think i might need a name for erin's sister. and joost has friends and colleagues and a family somewhere - i think his dad is an academic and he has a younger brother ( Read more... )

i was originally going to babble about the imperial gov't and general social structure and etc (sort of), and then i got distracted.... and now i'm watching when in rome week on the history channel. they're doing a show on the coliseum right now, and i have to say, i love the fact that even now we can't figure out how some of the engineering ( Read more... )

a. the barista at starbucks who used to look like orlando bloom but doesn't any more is left-handed. also he could use a haircut, and if I'M saying that? you know he does. :D also also, he's not bad-looking but orlando's prettier. my inner lizzie looks at him and thinks "hm, could use some work, got potential" (altho she thinks that about a ( Read more... )

you asked for it, you got it. burial practices and beliefs. woo fun. :D questions, comments, cries of despair clarifications are of course welcome.

( i love the smell of babble in the afternoon... )

had a really good think about the rantod in the shower last night, which started out with burial practices and managed to segue into agriculture and animal husbandry (mainly herding and what someone might do with a rampageous herd of free-range goats, aside from curse at them, and whether or not selling milk and cheese from said goats would be ( Read more... )

y’know, the army can’t still be so well-funded and well-trained, because if it was, people wouldn’t be able to chase it off so easily. unless the emperor in his wisdom decided the economic strain of importing island goods into the empire from so far away just wasn’t worth it.... or he could consolidate his armies and thus spend less money on them ( Read more... )