Matthew Scarborough 𐃌

blurb of the novel via https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/monas-eyes/9798889661115.html where it appears that the titular Mona refers not to the painting but to a character in it

it was the era of outrage bait

(Allegedly, at least, according to people I knew who knew him.)

Source: Gerald M. Browne's Valedictory address from his own Festschrift, which he also translated into Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Old Nubian, and Coptic. The Stufflings were apparently his stuffed animals who would watch the Playboy channel for him while he edited Old Nubian texts.

Every bond is a bond to sorrow,
To sorrow and despair,
Except for the bond to stufflings
Which removeth every care.

I suppose one of the few benefits of not having any other family members who are also academics is that I'll never have to deal with them judging my abstracts.

Basically that is the one and only thing that really matters.

oh shit oh fuck

These guys were going on in the reviews like "Oh, but the shadow-tracing and water-reflection rendering is not the saaaaame..." and I finally play the thing and it's like, it looks great to me I don't think I ever would have noticed...

Reading game reviews of high-performance games ported to the Switch be like: I just want to know if the port is playable or not. Look, I grew up playing DOS games. I can probably handle it if hair-strand rendering physics isn't fully implemented as in the PC version, you absolute nerds.

I opened up my copy of Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä's Notes from an Island to find the Politikens Boghal receipt with the tagline "It's not hoarding if it's books" on it, which I never noticed before.

Having recently packed and shipped several crates of books overseas I feel a bit uncomfortable.

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It's wild to think that Wikileaks' 2010 Collateral Murder video embarrassed the US State Department so much that Julian Assange had to hide in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for most of the 2010s and now the US military is just like "yup here are some videos of us doing murders in the Caribbean"

It was definitely an I am Encolpius at Trimalchio’s dinner party moment for me.

My Peter Rhodes story is that I, an impostor, somehow found my way into Paul Cartledge’s retirement dinner, was sat next to Peter, I missed his name in the noise of the dining hall introductions, and only caught on to who he was over an hour in when he was going on about Athenian tribute lists.

In flight reading: The Witcher Crossroads of Ravens prequel novel

Ok I’ve got about 11 hours of travel ahead of me. It’s time to finally do this.

Job announcements: PhD position and postdoc position in Indo-European Studies in Copenhagen

A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated” (rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/rese...).

Look, I myself only write my own book titles that adequately describe the contents of the book, but I can appreciate people having some fun with it sometimes.

From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal The discovery and development of metals as tool media is a topic of global interest. This phenomenon is generally associated with sedentary, agricultural societies; however, in North America metal use...

This is the best-titled academic monograph I have seen in awhile:

From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America, edited by Michelle Rae Bebber and Christopher B. Wolff.

I talk about this sometimes to folks not in academic or archival spaces and they scoff, then they get 👀👀, then they drink

Dennis Pardee’s tenure committee: Oh, you wrote a book review? How quaint.

To be fair to L. Ron, he did manage to churn out pulp fiction at an exponential pace. Maybe he was proto-GenAI… 🤔

I wonder if L. Ron Hubbard’s unpublished novel Excalibur, which claimed four out of fifteen people who read it went insane, was proto-GenAI.

Last morning in Ørestad Syd.

Starting a new game of Tears of the Kingdom. Getting reacquainted with the joy of reuniting gay koroks.

(I don't expect you to buy my book. But if you do I actually get a small amount of royalties so I mean, that's more than I originally expected when I was offered the contract.)

It will only cost you an arm, instead of an arm and a leg as it would normally.

With the discount that makes only €81,00 + VAT. A BRILLiant bargain.

Book cover: The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek: A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification, by Matthew Scarborough. The cover image is POxy. 1232 (Sappho fr. 44) from B.P. Grenfell & A.S. Hunt. 1914. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part x, London: The Egypt Exploration Society. Plate 1.

I see a lot of people promoting their books right now so if you would like a reliable cure for insomnia I would recommend this book on The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek, which can be bought from Brill with a 40% discount with the code DGBHOLIDAY40 brill.com/display/titl...

Last time I was moving in the Edmonton area I got supplies from one of the Sentinel Storage locations. Wasn’t too expensive.

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics are dope. Definitely one of the cooler abugidas out there.