UDLS

[gfish]

The CS department here has a charming little institution called the Un-Distinguished Lecture Series. Every week someone volunteers to give a speech on... something. Anything. Often not even related to computer science. Afterwords everyone goes over to the grad student pub for beer. It's simply brilliant.

Last week I took the plunge and gave a surprisingly well attended and received talk on archaeometallurgy. If you're curious, here are the slides. They were a lot of fun to put together. It's too bad all my archaeometallurgical visual aids are in storage. Maybe next time.

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[gfish.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, you were part of that? Looks like it was a lot of fun to do -- and with much better results than any of my copper smelting attempts.

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Flickr user stellar_muddle, whose image you used for an iron bloom is my significant other :-)