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Evan
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Archaeology, maps, baking/cooking, and whatever else I feel like...
https://the-fedora.github.io
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slice of life
#archaeology #crmarchaeology #desertsouthwest #newmexico
a burrito filled with onion, chiles, yuca, and sausage cut in two on a small cutting board an arid landscape with sparse grasses and forbs, and the occasional semi-stunted mesquite. one mesquite in the midground had a bird's nest near its crown. a bright-red tomato-and-rum cocktail in a mason jar with a garnish of key lime coyote skull in loess
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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www.thespacereview.com/article/5115/1
This seems relevant...
The Space Review: In defense of Mark Kelly
www.thespacereview.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Out of the ~8k at-sea fire detections in the ~70° × 40° AOI, there are 125 detections or clusters of detections on the dates of the strikes. Many can will be further filtered by location, and only about 60 have less than 5 events-per-cluster, probable candidates for single-event detections. WIP.
A map with small flame-symbols designating a set of VIIRS fire detections at sea. Natural Earth basemap with a simple line scale, and a white compass rose. Area shown includes Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean between southern North America and northern South America in a Mercator projection.
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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VIIRS (Visual Infrared Imagery Radiometer Suite) has a bit more than 8k off-land detections between 31 Aug and 16 Nov. How many of the 21 (probably/mostly) illegal "narco-terrorist" boat strikes show up in the data?
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Pie post is up on the 'blog. Made some progress on the boat strike post, as well, but not ready to publish yet. I have data to crunch first...
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Toll House Walnut Pie, with homemade pie crust. #food #baking #sourdough #chocolate #pie #thanksgiving 🦃 🥧 😋
A 9-in Toll House Walnut Pie, surrounded by four smaller versions. Toll House Walnut Pies baking in an oven. Unbaked Toll House Walnut Pies. Some of the ingredients for Toll House Walnut Pie, unopened in a baking tin.
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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There have been 21 strikes on alleged "narco-terrorists" since the beginning of Sept., according to a list on Wikipedia. Apparently, these may be visible in publicly-available fire data (VIIRS/FIRMS [NASA])... I'm going to look closer at this, may have a blog post later...
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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I had plans for today. I also had some bottom round and a meat grinder...
#food #burger #tortilla #tortillaburger #cheeseburger #cheeseburgerinparadise #paradiseincheeseburger
close-up of a tortilla burger cut in two a cutting board with a small bowl of ground beef, a smaller square tub of spices (garlic powder, cumin, fresh-ground black pepper, salt, and paprika), a tiny metal bowl of chia seeds, another tummy bowl stuffed full of diced roasted poblano peppers, and a ramekin of lightly fried white onion slices Tortilla with cheese, spiced ground beef, onions, and poblano assembled/folded tortilla burger
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Desert Southwest lately...
#archaeology #crm
a close-up of a sun-bleached cow skull in dry grass A white chalcedony projectile point A pair of hand petroglyphs pecked into sandstone a dark gray chert projectile point
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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My day in two images:
A photoshopped image of a puppy as fictional archaeologist Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr., with Indy's trademark fedora and whip, and a leather satchel. A fox facing into high winds, ears and fur blown back, from the classic "F*cken Wimdy" meme.
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Somehow, the lighting at this hotel is even worse than my kitchen for food photography... but here's the sandwich anyway: salt/lime bottom round with queso asadero, mustard-potato spread, spring mix, sauteed onion and portobello, and tomatillo salsa I made yesterday.
a toasted sandwich on sourdough, on a small cuttingboard assembled sandwich, open, on sourdough with cheese, potato-mustard spread, greens, beef, and salsa
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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#@$%!
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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A few new updates to the 'blog, including a post about generalizing Waldo Tobler's 1993 hiking function, and this public domain scale I made when I couldn't find one.
A business-card sized photo scale in centimeters, with fiducials and color references
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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wondering how the hell I got here/without a disguise
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happy Halloween 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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"Turtle" AKA split pea soup. Because it's soup season now. 🍜
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the-fedora.github.io/food/recipes...
October 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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It continues... four ways of looking at points across a landscape. Four inputs that will eventually feed into a predictive model of cultural resources. 🧪
#archaeology #GIS #science #maps
Four maps arranged as "small multiples". All maps are 150×150m, with 10m cells. A strip across the center of each map is highlighted brighter, and a line plots relative values across three of the maps (the northeast map is thematic, and has no numeric values). From the northwest, clockwise: cumulative cost to nearest potential water source, symbolized as dark blue (closest) to yellow (furthest); Landcover, thematically symbolized after SWReGAP; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI - a measure of vegetation/vegetation health) from lowest (brown) to highest (green); Degree slope from lowest (purple) to highest (pink).
October 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Polpette di sarde and cacio e pepe 🍜
several different cans of sardines, unopened, in a metal bowl. Sardines, breadcrumbs, spices, and herbs in a metal bowl. Polpette di sarde frying in a cast iron pan. Two polpette di sarde on a bed of cacio e pepe linguine.
October 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Cumulative cost map based on distance to drainages. From Tobler/Imhoff Hiking equation. One of the last inputs I need to finish a project I started 3(!) years ago.
#GIS #archaeology #science
A somewhat pixelated map, with three drainages in black and a gradient between them from blue to yellow, indicating cumulative cost to travel to or from the drainage.
October 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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I was going to make a "struggle meal," but the pre-cooked noodles were too old, so I wound up working on a new recipe instead 🙃

'nduja gnocchi with toasted walnuts
More details and recipe in alt (I didn't measure too exactly, so it's by volume/eye)
A row of chopped, but unshaped gnocchi on a cutting board. RECIPE --- 1/2 large potato 1/2 cup flour + extra 1/8-1/4 cup finely-grated parmesan cheese 3 large cloves of garlic, finely minced 2 tbsp butter 2cm slice of 'nduja di Spilinga Olive oil Salt Cube the potato and boil until just-soft, and set aside to cool. In the meantime, mince garlic, grate cheese, and prepare water with salt to boil the gnocchi, but doing start heating it up quite yet. Once the potatoes cool enough to work with, but before they cool completely, mash or rice coarsely, mixing in butter, and minced garlic. Next add some flour and mix until this starts to come together, but doesn't quite cohere. Now add the 'nduja, a little bit at a time, adding more flour and needed to keep dough from getting too sticky. Also add the parmesan now. Shaped gnocchi on cutting board. RECIPE (continued) --- Knead the dough lightly in the mixing bowl to help it come together, shaping into smooth ball. Let this rest for a few minutes (up to 30), you can toast the walnuts in a hot skillet while waiting. Form the rested dough into 4 long rolls, about 2cm diameter (slightly less than 1 inch). Chop these into 1-2cm wide pieces. Flatten the pieces against the back of a fork, then roll off so the impressions of the tines are on the outside. While you are doing this, start the salted water to boil. Boil the gnocchi in batches, for about 1 minute after all are floating. Drain or dry, then toss with olive oil and chopped, toasted walnuts. Gnocchi and walnuts in a pan. Further thoughts --- Due to the short cooking time, the garlic is mostly raw. Blanche or roast first if you don't like that strong a flavor. These would probably pair well with fresh mozzarella, spinach/basil, and a hearty tomato sauce... but I didn't have those handy. Gnocchi and walnuts in a small bowl.
September 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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USGS SGMC, geologic map of New Mexico as a QField (QGIS) project for field reference.
#archaeology #geology #GIS #QGIS #QField 🗺️
A phone screencap showing a brightly-colored geological map of New Mexico.
September 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Canceled D+. Subscribed thru cell, did not get to provide feedback. So: This because of the 1st Amendment. Because this need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. Authority is brittle. It breaks, it leaks. Oppression is the mask of fear. Do better.
the-fedora.bsky.social Evan @the-fedora.bsky.social · Sep 18
adding "cancel Disney+" to my To Do list...
rivertam.bsky.social River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · Sep 18
Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
September 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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adding "cancel Disney+" to my To Do list...
rivertam.bsky.social River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · Sep 18
Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
September 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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oxtail, part 2: 🌮
#food
three small oxtail tacos with hot sauces blanched red onions and crushed red pepper for quick pickling, in two small jars tortilla cooking on a griddle three small tacos on a cutting board
September 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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oxtail #food #sousvide
seared oxtail portions, lightly fried garlic, and a ripe serrano, also fried, arranged on a small cutting board. a pot with a sous vide circulator, with oxtail, garlic, and serrano in submerged in a vacuum bag.
September 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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i was on vacation long enough that my bar put up "missing" signs...
line-drawn portrait of a man in a very beat-up fedora and scarf, with a caption "have you seen this archaeologist?"
August 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM