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Ok. Before anything else, while I have your brief attention 😉 It is ShovelBums not “Shovel Bums”. It is a huge pet peeve of mine I have for absolutely no good reason, lol! The pattern is the CamelCase/medial capital convention adopted from computer programming. And I just like it better, it is a 90s thing … Read more
Hey folks! Now isn’t that a kick-ass presumptuous subject for an e-mail! ??? (<— Since I am quite NRHP eligible I can use whatever outdated emoji I want 😉 <– or ascii for that matter!) But like every clickbait worthy POS article online only after you are lured into opening it do you … Read more
If you click through on a job and you do not see a complete email this is because you are not logged in to https://groups.io/g/ShovelBums (You can fix that by following step #2 in these simple instructions). This is to prevent email harvesters from scraping public-facing email addresses. If you are a member of ShovelBums … Read more
For those of you who live within 4hrs of Albuquerque I would like to encourage you to come to the SAA’s for the Free CRM Expo being held at the convention center tomorrow on Saturday 10-4. The expo will have 50 companies represented(*), but more importantly will serve as a gathering place for … Read more
A beloved family story recounted by my Grandmother about the events from one cold December day in 1932. The three children mentioned were the first of what would be thirteen children she raised. TL;DR: Your small actions can have a life long positive impact you never know about on another person. Be kind, Be gracious, Be thankful. … Read more
December 2017, California: Tehachapi Wildland Fire Crew 11 crew sleeping after 24hr shift. Photo Credit: Kern County Fire Where there is smoke, there is Wildland Firefighters. Fire, when finally mastered by our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago, cast the very light which illuminates the darkest shadows of our shared history. Unlike lithics or … Read more
Regardless of how the election turns out today it is worth noting that in late October 2018, after the big drop, all of the “gains” from 2018 were effectively wiped out (someone made a profit, and it wasn’t most of us!). And while jobs grow continues (*)(a trend started early in the Obama’s administration) wages … Read more
Get Your Absentee Ballot In Two Minutes I got mine. Please get yours. It takes two minutes and requires no site registration (tip: you do not need to provide your phone number). http://shovelbums.net/l/get-your-absentee-ballot-here List of all states Absentee Ballot Deadlines: https://www.vote.org/absentee-ballot-deadlines/
TL;DR Is at the bottom: —> MUST READ: I always wanted to find myself standing on some dramatic landscape. A vista of foreboding clouds billowing across a distant horizon as a dusky golden sunset beautifully glints off the armor of the vast army behind me waiting for my command as we face our … Read more
The greatest tragedy of the Brazil Museum fire? The fire departments are now reporting that when they arrived on scene all of the local fire hydrants were dry. While the design of the building (wood supports and floors) and the apparent failure of any existing fire suppression to contain the fire contributed to some of the … Read more
Today is #AskAnArchaeologist day! Share the hashtag and help educate your friends and family on social media about what it is archaeologists really do! http://www.shovelbums.org/gear
Good Night Koko Hanabiko “Koko” (July 4, 1971 – June 19, 2018)
National Melanoma Day The first Monday in May was designated as “National Melanoma Day” by the American Academy of Dermatology in 1984 to help raise awareness of skin cancer. Melanoma is one of the deadliest types of skin cancer. And skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the US. According to the … Read more
May The 4th Be With You! Happy Star Wars Day!
Archeology Today by Monty Python
ShovelBums turns 19 today. 19! DON’T YOU PEOPLE HAVE HOBBIES? 🙂 Seriously though, thank you, everyone. Both the companies and institutions that have believed in ShovelBums enough to feel it was worth your resources to spend the time posting positions and the 45,000+ “ShovelBums” who have been the right fit for the jobs advertised, … Read more
Every Kid in a Park This is a national program for federal parks and properties. If you have a 4th grader (or homeschool equivalent) your fourth grader can take his whole family to Federal Parks until August 31, 2018. You can sign up for the program here: https://www.everykidinapark.gov Please share this … Read more
Reblogged from Merritt Burton https://twitter.com/chaotichamster Thanks to Bernie S. for the find:
The TransCanada Keystone pipeline spill of 210,000 gallons/5,000 barrels near Amherst, SD is *NOT* the Keystone XL pipeline that has been in the news so much this last year. The Keystone Xl is not completed yet. {Hat tip to JS for the heads up} The spill reportedly occurred because of a loss of pressure around 6:00 … Read more
I have been casually following the work of French archaeologist Pierre Tallet and his work with Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, the University of Ismailia and the University of Paris-Sorbonne on the ancient harbors at Ayn Sukhna and and the even more remote Wadi el-Jarf for a few years. Channel 4 just produced a neat documentary on … Read more
Did you see this picture on the History Channel special in July 2017 “Amelia Earhart – The Lost Evidence”? It purported to show Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan in Japanese custody. There is a small problem…the photograph was taken two years before they disappeared! While the History Channel has removed the episode … Read more
As a scientist one thing I genuinely appreciate is high quality visualizations of data to give lay people an idea of scale and complexity presented in a format they can understand without specialized training. I believe these wind maps from https://earth.nullschool.net/ do a great job of this type of visualization. They allow you to view … Read more
TL:DR Hackers compromised 143,000,000 Americans (and some foreign) accounts at Equifax with important personal info like SSN, address, etc… You have to dig through a few links on their statement page to find the page where you can check if your accounts might have been compromised (and if so, get free credit monitoring – they … Read more
You guessed the obvious (considering the source 😉 folks! That is right, Archaeology! Yep – 24% of Brits sampled in a 2,000 person survey listed Archaeology as the number one job they daydream about giving up their regular 9-5 job (you know, the ones with benefits, insurance, vacation, and co-workers with a slightly above average … Read more
{Eclipse 2017} Feel free to share! But see the audio note below. Watch in HD if able, it does look appreciably better 🙂 I haven’t posted many pictures of our trip to see the eclipse in Kentucky yet because I first wanted to try and help crystalize my families memories of the experience in my mind … Read more
ShovelBums How to Share With Just Friends How to share with just friends. Posted by Facebook on Friday, December 5, 2014
Well there you go. Ivanka Trump has given her blessing to the White House decision to roll back the Obama initiative to promote pay transparency in companies between genders. This contradict her previous statements, including her tweet on Equal Pay Day in April “Women deserve equal pay for equal work”. Trumps comment on the … Read more
The Great78 project has released 25,000+ digital copies of early 78rpm records and are continuing their work on digitizing more of estimated 3 million “sides” that play for about 3 minutes. A gateway to the history of the project and where to download from is here: http://great78.archive.org Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/internet-archive-78-records-phonograph http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/arts-culture/item/106319-philly-company-digitizes-collection-of-25000-old-records-and-growing-free-to-download
This is What Real Archaeologists do – Punch Nazis
It is what we do. I have reached out to ILM Intellectual Property to see if I can get a license to sell this on t-shirts, etc… I will keep you all updated. ~R. Joe