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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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Vindolanda 2015 Day Two

To some extent the feature we are excavating this week is "in the way". It needs to come out so that the ongoing excavations can ...

Monday, May 11, 2015

Vindolanda 2015 Day One

And so another excavating season begins. There have been a few interesting changes since my last time on site. A huge water tank was unco...

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Refugee Flight

We had an odd experience leaving Rome. A day or two earlier we had been at the Roman site of Ostia (very impressive, I will write about it ...

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Areviderci Roma!

Oh, it has been fun. I probably overdid it some with the walking on pavement in eighty degree heat. And the binge archeology hunting. ...

Thursday, May 7, 2015

The Sieges of Rome and Minas Tirith

J.R.R. Tolkien was always a bit touchy about speculation on the origins and meanings of his work. But sometimes you can see clear "temp...

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

The Column of Phocas

Although it is quite the jumble of mixed up stones, the Roman Forum really has the whole range of antiquity if you know where to look. The o...

Madison on the Tiber?

If you are either from Wisconsin or are a bit of a political junkie, you may recall that about two years ago there were massive protests at ...

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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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