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/
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
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
{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
Scientists from all over are keeping a close eye on US Government science websites. Today this popup occurred for anyone visiting the EPA Open Data website. Visitors are now greeted with: Representatives from the EPA now say they never had any intention of taking the page down. Curious times we are … Read more
75 years ago on December 5th 1941 Theodor Seuss Geisel, AKA Dr. Seuss was working for the New York newspaper PM as a political cartoonist when he crafted this single prescient panel. Three days later on December 8th Geisel produced this panel which served as a retrospective on American foreign policy. Dr. Seuss worked for three … Read more
Abe’s thoughts on Mike Pence’s reception at Hamilton.
You know it is true!
Folks, You need to put this to rest and focus your energy on making things better. The polls were not ever wrong. All the polls showed you was the *likelihood* of an outcome. No one ever said Trump would categorically lose. The majority of the polls just said that it was most likely he would … Read more
#2018 #MidTermElections
Folks, It is election day and we are all exhausted. This has been an election for the record books in terms of how outlandish it was and how it normalized behavior we would have thought outrageous on a SNL skit only a year ago. I consider myself to be a reasoned liberal. i.e. I will … Read more
A few months ago, after the last mass shooting, I saw the estimated intervals between mass shootings in the US in a Mother Jones article. I counted ahead from that date and made a note on my calendar that according to their estimates there would be another by December 4th… Mother Jone’s article Inside The … Read more
Koko – The gorilla almost any practicing anthropologist alive today feels a kinship with received kittens for her 44th birthday. Watch this great video:
Totally true and hard science here folks. This weekend Mars will be as big as Your own Full Moon and Uranus (depending on your viewing distance). As for Mars being viewed from earth and appearing as big as the moon, it is never, ever, going to happen.
VIA Jezebel – Thanks for the heads up Lucy! Key & Peele’s Pirate Chantey Is the Feminist Anthem of the Summer 77,557 91 Madeleine Davies Filed to: COMEDY 7/09/15 5:50pm “I once met a lass so fine. She was dunk on barley wine. I’d been at sea for months a three. I knew I … Read more
Note: This is iOS only right now. It will be coming to other platforms soon. This is great news! Facebook has introduced a way to actually prioritize who you see on your news feed (though it caps at 30 unfortunately). It has also simplified who you are friends with (anyone have crazy uninformed friends on … Read more
Have a safe 4th everyone! And remember the lesson my friend Arnie showed me when I found him on a country road in Texas or Arkansas. Don’t Drink & Drive.
Justice Roberts references the Aztecs, Kalahari Bushmen, the Han Chinese and the Carthaginians in his dissenting opinion on the right of Gay Marriage: The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judg- ment. The right it announces has no basis in the Consti- tution or this Court’s precedent. The majority expressly disclaims … Read more
As an anthropologist at heart if makes me very happy to see a large company take a public stance on supporting diversity with such a positive LGBTQ friendly commercial. So what if it is ultimately about marketing? This company is using their resources to make a loud, powerful and public statement on television and other … Read more
{iPhone crashing Bug FYI} If you happen to get a message and your phone restarts there are some easy solutions. Go to your photos and select one and then send it two the # that sent you the text and iMessages will start working again. An iPhone bug is making phones crash when … Read more
I always told my son. “Never bring a vacuum extension to a broadsword fight!” He didn’t listen…
Photoshop turns 25 The ubiquitous Gorilla in the digital room Photoshop just turned 25 years old! The original concept for photoshop was created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll while Tom was a student at the University of Michigan. The original name for the program was “Display” which Thomas had created on his Mac. John … Read more
“Pi. It might not be rational, but it is fun!” We counted down the last 53 seconds and then yelled “Pi”. The kids loved it, they are going to be happy geeks.