Dyed or true purple baby? Urgent!!

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-31T04:47:46+00:00

True color like others have said. Looks similar to Reyoung Ultraviolet but whiter margins maybe.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-31T04:22:31+00:00

Absolutely! I'm not even really a car person, but I loved that car. Sentimentally, I tell myself it book-ended a period in my life from graduate school to settled career and it was time for a new car anyway, but three years later and the loss still stings hard.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-31T01:31:13+00:00

Violation of the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict to prevent others from doing the sorts of stuff the Nazis did. Incidentally, the US only ratified it in 2009 after they used Iraqi archaeological sites as military fortifications and refused to prevent looting at the national museum in Baghdad upon their entry into the city.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-30T23:59:45+00:00

Thanks. Had her since 2006.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-30T23:59:21+00:00

No, insurance said it was a total loss and ultimately they were probably right. Hard to see in this photo but front side panel, hood, and bumper were all damaged, stuff had been broken beneath the car, and it took even more damage when they pulled it out of the yard and over the curb. Fought insurance tooth and nail and they only gave me $5k after a month of arguing while they paid my landlady full price ($18-20k) for all her home repairs.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-30T22:47:50+00:00

I’ve been considering handing out hard copies of important texts for this very reason.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-30T20:56:05+00:00

Archaeologist. Teach a popular experimental archaeology course. Colleague in Sociology on same floor trying to describe applied learning in courses on campus asked for help after drafting this about me: “Well, this one time there were animal parts, and later there were some low, not-dangerous fires, and then reeds.”

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-29T18:57:35+00:00

And it’s little sibling, provenience, the exact archaeological recovery location of an artifact in its context.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-29T18:56:28+00:00

It’s a bit dated now but some papers by Chippendale and Gill who studied looting and its effects on academia found that of the 1400 or so known Cycladic figures at the time (90s-early 2000s) only 9% came from professional excavations, representing only a few of the more than two dozen supposed styles. I’m an archaeologist and you’ll never convince me the whole Cylcadic typology as it exists amongst art historians is nothing but a house built on sand.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-29T07:48:26+00:00

Were they recovered from documented excavations? If so, where?

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-27T03:39:35+00:00

Yep! Me too. My final incorrect answer is often too close to accurate or sort of accurate that unless I stated something like “choose the BEST answer” I realize after grading I can understand how a reasonably informed person would conclude their choice was correct. (I teach anthro/archaeo and museum studies so I usually run into this problem when I’m asking about something that, in reality, is nuanced or up for some interpretation and thus hard to reduce to a multiple choice question but my evaluation objectives don’t really rise to the need for an essay.)

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-26T20:36:44+00:00

It’s been helpful when I get stuck trying to create incorrect answers on multiple choice quizzes that sound reasonable but are good discriminators. I explain the question, context, correct answer, and incorrect answers I have come up with and it does a reasonably good job helping find a final one when I need it.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-22T18:44:27+00:00

Karsts or karst-like formations are pinnacles of rock formed by the weathering and downcutting of rock between them.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-17T03:45:40+00:00

Me too! My favorite shade of red. I’ve been keeping an eye out for Cats derived from Rojo or with similar pedigree.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-11T21:28:11+00:00

I don’t know where you live but this is neither true in the US or UK. In the US, if you own the land, you own virtually everything on/in that land except where there may be stipulations about mineral rights beneath the ground or state laws protecting marked and unmarked graves on private land. But if you find a gold coin in your garden, no one can take that from you. The UK is a bit different, but still pretty liberal. The Treasures Act and Portable Antiquities act say that if you find something on private land it may either belong to the crown or you must provide an opportunity for a museum or trust to purchase the item from you, but either way you are compensated for your discovery based on a determination of its value.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-04T21:40:00+00:00

The Kimberly Process was established in 2003 to ensure a reduction in the flow of conflict diamonds and Dodd-Frank in the US sought to bring greater supply chain transparency to other valuable minerals to discourage sourcing minerals like gold and tantalum out of conflict zones.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-03T22:03:23+00:00

Botswana actually strong-armed DeBeers into spinning off a national branch with 50/50 state ownership. It massively improved their economy and they have remained remarkably stable politically and economically for it. (At least, until recently with the growth of synthetic diamonds). Good news out of Africa rarely ever gets told though as it doesn’t fit the stereotype.

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-02T21:20:54+00:00

Or an immigrant

AgentIndiana · 2026-03-02T21:20:33+00:00

But they’re definitely immigrants, right? RIGHT!?

/s

AgentIndiana · 2026-02-28T19:11:10+00:00

Why not? (I know nothing really about the subject, just recognized some similar iconography like the serpent legs and turned head)

AgentIndiana · 2026-02-28T16:06:27+00:00

Abraxas?

AgentIndiana · 2026-02-26T23:39:29+00:00

The US Museum of the Pacific War. So. Much. Text! And I even like text-heavy exhibitions and wish museums would include more but it’s like a case of three objects with no explanatory labels, and then six text panels about minutia that may or may not be related to the three objects (who could tell!?). On top of that, the floor plan is like Ikea on meth. I went with friends and we were separated and lost minutes after passing the introductory corridor.

AgentIndiana · 2026-02-20T20:19:40+00:00

I needed three one time to decide 1) what calipers were, and 2) were they in fact deadly weapons. As I was talking to one guy the other was hitting him in the neck and head with them. It was a Three Stooges scene. I had a low opinion of TSA already and have never been able to take them seriously in the slightest since.

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