I’m writing this as of April 2026, but it’s about a trip to Bears Ears National Monument that I took in May of 2025. At the time, my blog was broken so I couldn’t share any photos. But it’s fixed, ...

I’ve always felt like my vocabulary is a bit weak. I like words, but I just don’t know a lot of them that other people I run into know. But here is a doozy I read about last month: ultracrepidarian...

It’s been a couple years since I posted a recipe to my blog. Here’s what I had for lunch today. I call it “Indian poutine”. First, have you ever noticed that some food styles or patterns appear in...

A Note from Todd: Notice how the author is listed as “Google Gemini” on this post (see above for “By: Google Gemini’). That means this article was written almost entirely by my AI assistant based o...

While doing some spring cleaning and maintenance on the site, I stumbled upon a few old entries that had somehow been misplaced as static pages instead of proper blog posts during the various migra...

Reading the New York Times this morning, I saw a quote from French President Macron about US President Trump. It reminded me of a line from Broadway musical Hamilton. I have no idea if Aaron Burr ...

I woke up this morning with a migraine, which sucks. But my migraine medicine worked, and after a nap I’m back among the living. Wedding and Reception Photos When I resurrected my 25-year-old b...

Today I’m going to talk about a concept I learned last year that is one of those general principles that applies to a lot of scientific fields. You may already know all about it, but it was new to ...

Earlier this week I posted a text heavy blog post which was all about my interest in archaeology and how I got into it, despite having no professional connection to the field whatsoever. Movies ab...

Over the past 20 years or so I’ve gotten more and more interested in archaeology, especially the archaeology of the American southwest. Looking way back, I guess I initially learned about the topi...