Starting to believe the Mad Max movies were precognition, not science fiction.

A very large and not very realistic 2D plywood chickend on a well mowed lawn with a line of trees. A many in shorts and a white t-shirt is just beyond the chicken but its head is blocking his head. To the right is a highway and hills.

The giant chicken promoting a Labor Day fundraising dinner outside of the church in Wilno, Ontario "Canada's first Polish settlement." This was 2016. The church has since redone its plywood chicken display along similar lines. (Fuji GW690III, 90mm f3.5 Fujinon, Fuji 160 NS)

I honed my sense of humour in the fluorescent-lit lunch room at the Ahlstrom glass factory in Scoudouc, NB, eating nuked hot dogs from the vending machine with my cousins Pat and Jimmy Hickey on the night shift when I was in high school in the early 70s. Miss those guys 💔 #goodtimes

Four centuries later, Fibonacci learned Al-Jabr (algebra) in North Africa from Algerian merchants, returned to Pisa and used the Indian/Persian/Arabic positional, columnar, and zero-using system to replace the cumbersome Roman numeral method of calculating, which required an abacus.

“Algorithm” is a Latin corruption of “al-Khwarizmi”, surname of the 9th century Uzbek Persian mathematician who, working in Baghdad, applied the Indian zero and decimal system to solve practical problems, moving math from the realm philosophy to real world applications.

The Battle of Vimy Ridge began at 5:30 a.m. April 9, 1917; Canadians under command of a Canadian, as an independent corps for the first time. This battle lasted for three days, and at the end, it was here #Canada was forged into a #Nation. It is a place of #Remembrance & #Pilgrimage
#LestWeForget

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Finally tried the sujuk at the Turkish grocery shop I frequent. Deeply sorry I waited so long. Eating it, I think of the auroch effigies at Çatalhöyük and figure they had a version of this back then

Cotton seeds from Kyrgyzstan in the lab today! #archaeology #history #ecology #plants #pbot

Would love to see the Jays acquire rights to Tugboat Wilkinson and see him come out of the pen to whiff power hitters again.

Excellent investment

Mohawk community gets cultural item back from Bank of Canada Museum | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

The Mohawk community of Kahnawake has received a cultural item back from the Bank of Canada Museum in Ottawa in the form of a string of wampum beads.

Viva Venezuela #WBC3026

Always wanted to try that ❄️ 🐍

Cuban catcher Andrys Pérez is having an inning to forget at the World Baseball Classic,bottom of the sixth against Canada 😂

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

What's My JND? 0.0039
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

“You will never see a better relay than that!” Canada vs Panama, 8th inning, Owen Caissie to Otto Lopez to Bo Naylor to catch the speedy Panamanian base runner at home plate. We lost the game but what a play, tremendous throws. ⚾️

If we never have to change the clocks again in 🇨🇦, our economic productivity will surely rise.

With news they will stick with Pacific Time, I hope BC is the first domino to fall and every other province and territory follows suit ⏰

Old Irish Goat carries 3,000 years of Irish history

🐐🧬 New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the Late Bronze Age.

The findings suggest the rare indigenous breed represents a continuous Irish lineage stretching back millennia.

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Storms revealed 2,000-year-old footprints on eastern Scotland’s Angus beach.
The imprints of human and animal feet were temporarily revealed by shifting sands at Lunan Bay and spotted by vigilant members of the public.
www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25127/

That was the argument my fieldwork mentor, the late Birgitta Wallace, made back in 1987 when explaining her choice of area excavation for the shell midden site in PEI National Park. Where do the finds go when excavated? Baulks basically need their own separate recording system.

Hooray for basket makers and their brilliant baskets! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My daughter threw a curveball at me in scrabble: “wany” short for waney, as in feeling on the wane. Mos def gonna be incorporating that one into my vocabulary 📣

Sputter-coating seeds with gold for SEM imaging is standard practice in archaeobotany🏺. Each coating consumes 1 milligram. 95% of that misses the seed and can be ‘mined’ from the glass bowl, yielding a total of $5 million/month at $5k gold, but that’s global SEM use #funfacts #funwithAI

Digging the drone footage at 130 kmph in men’s downhill qualifying at the Olympic Games in Italy

Been a busy day adding colour to these mugs. Now for the glazing. #pottery #ceramics #madeinthemaritimes #handmade #madeincanada

Looks like some kind of 🏺 game set to me. I wonder if there was a playing surface found with it: a bowl or a board for example.

I’ve probably saved a fair amount of money over the years by making my own potato chips. I slice them with a peeler and fry them in a small sauce pan with a cup of avocado oil, medium high heat. Drain on paper towel, fresh cracked French grey sea salt, and into a brown paper lunch bag. 🥔 🥑 🧂 💲

Having retired from field archaeology 🏺 after forty years (since fieldschool), I miss the stratigraphy. I miss the challenge of interpreting it in a test pit profile, or exposed by the claw of an excavator on a watching brief, when you really have seconds to make a call.