Quirky website here that allows you to build scenes using what seem to be figures, animals, ships, buildings, etc. from the Bayeux Tapestry.

Saw the movie Matchstick Men with runningwave yesterday. Another amazing Ridley Scott movie. It’s a big con movie with lots of twists & turns, and a character study of a neurotic personality under pressure, and a movie about a man developing a relationship with a daughter he just met for the first time. Early on, there is a certain amount of switching ( Read more... )

The National Marine Fisheries system is accepting comments on their management plan of the Bering Sea region until November 6th. I think this is a very important environmental issue to respond to, given the importance of this eco-system (including for sea otters, seals, and sea lions). They have a webpage set up for easily entering ecomments ( Read more... )

Just sold my stock in Hasboro. Its been kind of fun being a part owner of Wizards of the Coast (and lots of toys I used to love). As an amateur stock picker, its always good to have some additional motivation to follow a company and do the necessary homework. However, the stock has about doubled in the last nine months and its looking fairly ( Read more... )

Ran across an intriguing story about the grave of a 6 ft. tall woman buried with a shield and blade in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Lincolnshire. The find has been dated to the 5th century, so may overlap with the "Arthurian period ( Read more... )

“When you have tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return” Leonardo Da Vinci

runningwave has been posting the story of our latest travels. While she returned home, I stayed out a bit longer in Ohio on business. I had some free time to visit Wright ( Read more... )

Atlantis Revisited: Following my last post, yesterday’s NYT has a good article
about Thera and its potential connection to the story of Atlantis.

CNN has an interesting story on evidence about how corn was transported to Chaco Canyon. I find Chaco to be probably the most fascinating pre-modern Native American site in the U.S. There is ( Read more... )

The Boston Globe has an interesting piece on yet another theory about Atlantis. This one puts Atlantis off of Cyprus based on recent oceanographic surveys. Not sure from the article if there is any meaningful evidence assocated with this or its another example of the mainstream media being scammed on a science/scholarship issue. In any case, I' ( Read more... )

Just saw there is a new book on Goya out by one of the most fun to read writers on modern art, Robert Hughes (review at http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1055165,00.htmlRead more... )

As one of the lucky few people that have a holiday weekend (thank you Italian-American lobby), I thought this would be a good time to start my livejournal. runningwave has been twisting my arm … ah … I mean enthusiastically encouraging me to do this for some time. I haven’t quite decided what I want to do with this account. I’m not really the type to ( Read more... )