Wednesday, November 14, 2007When Good Apps Go Bad I had a half hour in Kansas City International Airport. Like many airports nowadays, they had free wireless internet. I haven't installed Warcraft on the Powerbook yet so I had to settle with surfing the web. I have installed Leopard so I was trying to download TinkerTool, an essential Mac OS X customization utility, so I can change the hideous new 3D drawer dock. I found it easily enough, but when I went to download it, I was shown this webpage:
 Apparently TinkerTool has some features I'm not aware of! Wait.. Tinker... Tool... oh I get it. Eww. Labels: internet, macs, perversion link : 10:34 PM
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Saturday, June 16, 2007Work is Not Much to Write About The field school kicked off for real towards the beginning of the second week. Things are going quite well. Bob and I are impressed by how quickly the students are learning. They've already handled a large spectrum of peoples, from stillborn babies to older men. On Monday they will start another round of skeletal material.
Meanwhile I have been taking their comments to make an improved skeletal inventory form. The form that we use right now is from another MU researcher. While it does a good job at organizing the collected data, it uses many abbreviations that confuse the beginning bioarchaeologist. My goal is to make a form that records the same information, but with a much clearer layout. I believe the new form will be done just in time for Monday's class, so they won't have to relearn too much to use my form. --- On a completely different note, we saw a homeless guy take a dump on the side of the street today while we were walking home from KFC. I'd feel sorry for him, but he obviously is not starving, judging by his output. Labels: peru, perversion link : 3:05 PM
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Friday, March 9, 2007Archaeoporn! The Lost Tomb of Jesus documentary that the Discover Channel aired then subsequently countered and suppressed had one upside for archaeology: the popularization of the term "archaeoporn" to describe the documentary. It was actually said on a panel discussion that aired after the actual show. While this new and exciting word is sweeping the news (check out the headline!) and blog world, I wanted to see if this word has shown up before. Doing a search of "archaeoporn -jesus" gave me results not having to do with the documentary. Here are the results:
For those who want to know more about the statistical argument against the assertions in Lost Tomb of Jesus, Dr. Randy Ingermanson has a well-written explanation. He's a Cal alum too! (Basically, "Few even think to ask the question.") When I typed "archaeoporn" into Google, it asked if I mean "archaeopteryx." No, Google, I really mean "archaeoporn." Labels: anthropology:archaeology, perversion, statistics link : 12:15 PM
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Saturday, December 30, 2006So, Why Did I Have to Shower with a Bunch of Naked Boys? That title got you attention huh? I was thinking back to my youth and how weird it was, even though I just took it as normal at the time. In junior high, after PE class, us boys had to get naked and line up for group showering. What the hell was that? Group showering was weird and icky. All of a sudden I'm forced to see my friends in the nude (since of course we had the same schedule and our lockers are next to each other). That's creepy! Also weird is that our PE teachers were around to direct us masses of naked boys (thankfully, the PE teachers were clothed). They're our teachers! It'd be weird for my history teacher to see me naked but somehow it's ok for the PE teachers.
Talk about something at school that in no way pertains to life in general. In high school showers were optional and as you'd expect, no one took a shower anymore. So what was the deal with junior high? It's not like we were extra stinky those years. And it's not like walking barefoot on a moldy floor and getting sprayed with stinging water for twenty seconds would do a lot of good. Do schools still do this? Was my junior high just pervier than other schools? My mind reels. Labels: perversion, school link : 1:16 PM
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