Detritus of Empire

Wandering unsupervised in various real and imaginary places. Detritus reflects my interests in robotics, travel, history and the odder aspects of the world around me.

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

A Mystery Coin - The Wild, Wild East?

Heads and tails of a real challenge from my box of random ancient coins. The metal composition is peculiar, it looks like high quali...

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Answer Me these Questions....Eleven?

Yesterday's long winded musings were in response to a challenge I got from some of my UK archeology pals. It was all about blogging and...

Monday, March 31, 2014

MuseandHobbes Throws the Gauntlet

I have been challenged. My old digging amiga MooseandHobbes passed along to me a challenge she had previously received from some of her mu...

Sunday, March 30, 2014

I visit a Shooting Range

I grew up, sort of, in Minneapolis. Other than a little fishing in the summertime I was a city kid with little exposure to the Great Outdoo...

Friday, March 28, 2014

The Colosseum of the Robots

A few weeks back I put up a link to a Kickstarter project aiming to fund a new arena for our " Machines Behaving Badly" robotic...

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

40 Years with Uncle Hugo

I don't do plugs for businesses or products. You eat/drink/watch what you like and I shall do the same. I have been blogging on schedu...

Monday, March 24, 2014

Naming the Liberty Ships - Part Ten

Time to say farewell to the Liberty Ships. A list of their names has been a fun little sea voyage into odd corners of history. In fac...

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Tacitus: Having over the many years of my medical career seen too many hard working folks post pone retirement and tip over shortly after their farewell party I have adopted a Carpe Diem policy. Retire at 60. And don't let 'em throw you a party. Its working so far.

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