Last day for Woolworths, more moronic comments…
So I went for a look. It was pretty sad, the tables and chairs from the staffroom were being sold off, and the back section was already being ripped out. it’s been there over seventy years, my father in law used to buy hot peanuts there as a child. I spent ages muling over the lipsticks when [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A busy pre-Christmas with the kids
So not to much time on line for mummy.
We’ve made our first batch of gingerbread men, which all got eaten in five minutes flat by mine and the neighbours kids. I’ll do some more biscuits for the tree tomorrow with the boiled sweet ‘glass’ in them. After that it’s they playdoh nativity. This is a [...]
Crappy Saturday.
I’m having agonizing cramps and the bloody builder didn’t turn up to fit the fireplace. It’s also howling a gale outside. What a miserable day.
On a brighter note, my weird world blog seems to have picked up. Really I only use it as a store for the odd facts that take my fancy and to debunk [...]
Found a nice site on North African history with mosaics.
Here.
I’m scouting around for a continuous image progression from the rock Art into the Islamic era. Here’s the early version, I’ll put the finished product in MAB.
The oldest, a ’roundhead’ art style, and probably the oldest.
Rock art from Uan Amil, the hair washing scene.
From Uan Fathi
The Tassili ladies
This guy is my ‘Roman era’ North African [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Number 14 out of 100
I made number 14 out of 100 anthropology sites on line. Not bad, considering I’ve been only been at this 11 months. I was only just below John Hawks, and four below Dienekes, whom I both shamelessly exploit as sources of information. I’m close to 140,000 hits now, the average daily is about 1,300, with a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )You’re nobody till someone makes a youtube hate vid about you.
I’d just like to say, switching to WordPress from Yahoo was a great idea. the Yahoo blog never worked properly, I can’t even delete the old entries or terminate the blog. What a POS that was. WordPress isn’t perfect, it keeps losing my images, but otherwise it works properly. Also, the ‘where did viewers come from’ info [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )You’re noboby until somebody stalks you…
Or so the song goes.
So I’ve been getting a slew of absolutely hilarious comments from the dumbest Afrocentrist in town. Four days, and the stupid bugger still hasn’t figured out that all his comments go automatically into the spam bin without ever seeing the light of day on my blog.. I’d put ROFLMAO down, but it really [...]
A mildly scary but educational lesson in copyright.
Yikes.
I logged on to find an email informing me I was using an image on my anthropology blog in violation of copyright laws. This was a bit of a shock. So after a cup of tea, I wrote a polite apology in response. The people were very civil about it, apparently they were quite okay [...]
Sports day.
Here I am, camcorder in hand ready to record my little princess’s egg and spoon race and ‘throwing bags into a hoop’. I’m taking an iced drink, it’s baking out there.
I’ve had Razib comment on my blog (honoured), I’d do the same but I can’t figure how to work out the comments on his site [...]
So, the anthropology blog breaks 300 hits a day, and blond Egyptians.
Which is pretty respectable. Dienekes seems to get about 900+, and my blog is pretty small compared to his. I admit, a lot of it is a beginners introduction to lost/odd peoples. So far, the Jarawa and Onge have pulled in the most hits overall. Putting in a lot of pictures seems to help pull [...]
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