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Cerutti Mastadon & Giant Armadillos
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Forever pushing back the timeline of humans in the Americas, a couple of articles that seem to substantiate the presence of humans or homo-??? well outside the conventional timelines. There are actually an awful lot more, but you can do your own research.
Slow Productivity
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No one has this down better than I. So slow as to be unnoticeable, slowly, inexorably crawling towards an invisible finish line...
The Cube - 1997
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Fell down some rabbit hole on reddit about how "The Cube" was getting a Japanese remake. Everyone seemed to think the original was just good enough.
So I took time out and downloaded and watched it.
/redditors are not film critics. This was bad. Irredeemable. Just a generic film, probably would have done well on Netflix.
The one positive is that I can see how it could be done for a very low budget. Probably it was, nowadays for sure it could be, would be, the entire thing filmed against a green-screen and topped up with CGI. But it would have been better if it hadn't been made at all...
August 6th 2024
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Trying to overcome my (entirely reasonable) fear of driving in my son's car.
Today, up to Woodbury to collect some garnets, a few larger ones, time to start doing things with them.
And a walk along the lake at Balfour, looking for arrowheads. An hour, a few bits of debitage, then this:
It was actually point in to the gravel, a black obelisk, tough to spot. And unremarkable when I laid it out on the gravel.
very old and worn, knapped on both sides, a tough black rock. Noteworthy it's a thick piece of stone, and spirals slightly, perhaps not so suited for an arrowhead but more an aul or drill. Nonetheless, a great find and I'm quite pleased.
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