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Detritus of Empire: Will Work for Ice Cream
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Archeology, student robotics projects, taxidermy and odd history. You want normal, you have wandered into the wrong saloon. Friday, August 7, 2015. Will Work for Ice Cream. Although I mostly work ER these days in my earlier career I was primarily a clinic based family physician. And I still do the rare day in clinic when the local outfit needs a hand due to vacations and such. Usually there are Dairy Queen Dilly bars in the break room when I arrive. It's kind of in my contract. Languishes amongst the spa...
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Detritus of Empire: February 2015
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Archeology, student robotics projects, taxidermy and odd history. You want normal, you have wandered into the wrong saloon. Friday, February 27, 2015. On my travels here and there I always carry a camera and keep an eye open for additions to my collection of "Tree Shaped Tombstones". I ran across this interesting specimen in the little town of Turtle Lake, Wisconsin. The full text can be found HERE. But the story is this. George prospered by the standards of the day, in 1885 he had enough money to buy 40...
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Detritus of Empire: Here and There in the Roman Forum
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Archeology, student robotics projects, taxidermy and odd history. You want normal, you have wandered into the wrong saloon. Monday, August 3, 2015. Here and There in the Roman Forum. The Roman Forum is one of the great archaeological sites of the world. So much history, so many memorable figures. And very unusually a lot of it is documented in hallowed ancient texts. There were probably some fascinating things going on in Borneo in the 1st Century AD, but nobody will ever read about them. 1 It was the si...
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Detritus of Empire: Help Wanted-President
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Archeology, student robotics projects, taxidermy and odd history. You want normal, you have wandered into the wrong saloon. Thursday, September 8, 2011. Note to recurring readers: I almost never do politics. There are plenty of plenty of well established sites to go to for that sort of thing, and frankly politics rarely intrudes into those brightly lit, happy places where my imagination wanders during the course of daily drudgery. But rarely is not the same as never.). Were, in rough order:. Lincoln, Was...
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Detritus of Empire: March 2015
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Archeology, student robotics projects, taxidermy and odd history. You want normal, you have wandered into the wrong saloon. Monday, March 30, 2015. Four Years and Change. My goodness. Where does that time go? It appears that I have been pecking away at the keyboard now for four years of blogging. I understand that "blogging is dead". I know this because I recently read it on the internet. On somebody's blog. So I intend to keep plugging away. A certain amount of upkeep is needed on any venture so I am tr...
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Detritus of Empire: May 2015
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Archeology, student robotics projects, taxidermy and odd history. You want normal, you have wandered into the wrong saloon. Friday, May 29, 2015. Forgotten Brewery Caves - Winona, Gilmore Valley. One of the very earliest breweries in "outstate" Minnesota was established in 1855 near Winona in what is called Gilmore Valley. The proprietors shifted around a bit but for most of its 22 year existence it was run by a man named C.C. Beck. The area behind this is a hillside, but it looks as if this cave may hav...
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Detritus of Empire: Stump Speeches and Real Debates
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Archeology, student robotics projects, taxidermy and odd history. You want normal, you have wandered into the wrong saloon. Thursday, August 6, 2015. Stump Speeches and Real Debates. There is going to be a debate tonight. In two groups the approximately 350 men, women and harder to characterize life forms vying for the Republican nomination are going to sit on a large stage and talk. As a format it is lousy. But what we really need to do is scrap the current debate system entirely and make it more: 1....
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Detritus of Empire: November 2014
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Archeology, student robotics projects, taxidermy and odd history. You want normal, you have wandered into the wrong saloon. Friday, November 28, 2014. JJ Lundy - Rest in Peace. As I mentioned in a post some months back J.J. Lundy was a fine craftsman of stone monuments. In the area around Independence Iowa. I was through there again recently and dropped by the cemetery where the Lundy family is resting. I was expecting something grand and over the top. Here is what I found. The prize of this visit for me...
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Detritus of Empire: Help Wanted - President. 2015/16 Edition
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Archeology, student robotics projects, taxidermy and odd history. You want normal, you have wandered into the wrong saloon. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Help Wanted - President. 2015/16 Edition. As I have to say every time I do a political post, I don't think very many people care about this stuff. But here at Detritus of Empire it is recognized that there is a real world out there, and on occasion I feel a need to divert from robotics, archaeology and general weirdness. In theory, but not always in practi...
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Detritus of Empire: December 2014
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Archeology, student robotics projects, taxidermy and odd history. You want normal, you have wandered into the wrong saloon. Monday, December 29, 2014. Our holidays are over. Oh, I guess there is still New Years Eve but that is a fairly tame event these days. Stay up until midnight. Maybe have two beers. Whoopie! A little less elaborate than most years but the event staff was short a member this year. Also since they are now all over 21 they may have been a little Merrier than usual at midnight. Boxing Da...
