Michael E Smith

Very nice thread, thank you.

Wow, Violet looks a lot like our first dog, Xochitl (30 years ago). She was half border collie and half German short hair pointer. Best dog ever!

His history is crap

And don’t use tiny font. Use 11 or 12 point.

Make it under two pages, otherwise people will just skim some or all of the letter.

Long thread at the other place on how Karl Polanyi distorted evidence from early economies in order to support an erroneous view of pre-capitalist economics. Too much effort to post in both places.
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And so? I’m freezing here in Mesa at 60 degrees. I certainly remember Chicago winters. The Super Bowl Shuffle that they talked about during the Bears playoff game brought back memories.

Kino’s hike this morning

Showing our solidarity with Denmark and Greenland

Landscape-wide cosmogram built by the early community of Aguada Fénix in southeastern Mesoamerica The cosmogram of Aguada Fénix built over the landscape between 1050 and 700 BCE rivaled the extents of later Mesoamerican cities.

🧵The cosmogram crowd are at it again. Sigh. Cool new site, Aguada Fenix, is interpreted by Takeshi Inomata et al as a big cosmogram. The article is here: science.org/doi/10.1126/..., with a journalism article in LiveScience here: livescience.com/archaeology/.... What's wrong with that? 1/6

Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder, Dead at 78 Bob Weir, the singer-guitarist who co-founded the Grateful Dead and later found success with Dead & Company, has died at age 78.

RIP, Bob Weir

Found this old joke from pandemic times

Sometimes I wonder what it would feel like if my ears could flop around in the wind.

Kino having fun this new year

I don’t think I had any accomplishments this year. So, I’ll retire next year and say screw it to a lot of things.

These things are so disgusting

Go for it!

Go Illini!

maybe that’s not a sunset, maybe Phoenix is burning.

Kino at sunset

Yeah, I love it. And it sucks when you find a bunch of empty citations.

It was built for John Garvey, head of the U of I jazz band. They had concerts in the central area. Igor Stravinsky played piano in the house (his son was in the Music Dept). This was all before my wife’s family bought the house.

My wife grew up in a circular Goff house in Urbana

We were at Tivoli in Copenhagen on opening day this fall, and heard a brass band playing Feliz Navidad. Didn’t manage to film the Spanish lyrics with Danish accents. K

I wonder what they think they are getting out of paywalling book reviews

Those books are all edited volumes, so the intellectual works being stolen belong to a bunch of people. It’s different from a book that I wrote