Tom Elliott

Yesterday I spotted another local nerd’s custom license plate: “NSFW”. Adding to my custom local nerd collection, which already includes TARDIS, NAZGUL1, SHDWFAX, GWAIHIR, NCC1701, CTRLSEE, FIREFLY

Cut our use of the word "powerful" in descriptions of #DH tools and research methods in 2024 challenge.

Pasts Imperfect (12.14.23) is out:

"This week, classicist and pun gold medalist Tori Lee presents her annual Classicist’s Gift Guide 2023. Then, the editors of Eidolon take over the newsletter with updates, reading suggestions, and insights galore. Finally, there are new journal issues that will give you some ancient world reading into the new year—although we’d also suggest just reading some fun fiction over the break."

https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-121423

#classics #ancientHistory #archaeology

Last week in the #PleiadesGazetteer the editorial college published 9 new and 119 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Denitsa Dzhigova, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-11-18-december-2023

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #HGIS

Sneak peek: new in the #PleiadesGazetteer this week

I aim to publish the regular "Last week" blog post on Monday or Tuesday. Five contributors have already provided 9 new and 44 updated place resources this week.

Here's an example new entry by Jeffrey Becker: The Cissbury Ring Iron Age hillfort, located north of Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is the second largest hillfort in England.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/370546554

#ancientGeography #archaeology #HGIS

CDC hospital admissions data hasn't updated from the 11/25 count, which was increasing rapidly, but In some good news, our wastewater COVID numbers via biobot are trending down at the moment: https://biobot.io/data/#county-01089

But. Influenza and RSV are pounding the southeast reason and look what's happening with the nationwide trends (including COVID). People here travel alot: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/state-of-affairs-dec-5

Last week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (4-11 December 2023), the editorial college published 3 new and 142 updated place resources, representing work by Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and Richard Talbert.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-4-11-december-2023

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #HGIS

Sneak peek: new in the #PleiadesGazetteer this week

I aim to publish the regular "Last week" blog post on Monday or Tuesday. Seven contributors have already provided 2 new and 79 place resources this week.

Here's an example new entry: the so-called "Royal Stoa" in the Athenian Agora, contributed by Jeffrey Becker with assistance from Brady Kiesling.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/192761443

#ancientGeography #ancientGreece #ancientHistory #archaeology #HGIS

We had an excellent experience with Window World doing replacements of our 1970s-vintage wood single-pane cheap orig windows.

Do not. I repeat, do not contract them for anything else. Disaster from initial estimate, through delays, through incorrect measurements of parts, through more remanufacturing delays, through installation scheduling, rescheduling, ghosting, starting, stopping, changing, rescheduling, communicating, etc. And we're still not done.