Last night I got a call inviting me to present a lecture for a group retreat in Wisconsin next month. And they actually want to pay me. Not the kind of honorarium great celebrities like Al Franken and Dale Brown get, but actual money for talking to a crowd about Vikings.
The group is called Norden Folk, which (to me) has a kind of sinister sound. However, I’m informed that the backbone of the group is university professors of Scandinavian descent. So I have a strong feeling that, if I have political problems with anybody at the event, it won’t because they’re Aryan supremacists.
Speaking of Vikings, reader Dave Lull sent me to this video, by way of The Centered Librarian. It appears to be a film of the special effects a Danish museum is using to tell the story of a runestone in its collection.
However, I do have to nitpick a little and point out that, under usual conditions, swords don’t float.
Otherwise it’s nice.
Finally, this little video by way of The RiffTrax Blog. Somebody is manipulating the photos of dead poets to make them look (sort of) like they’re reading their poems.
Is it me, or is that just creepy?
Creepy. Most definitely. Reminds me of the people who videotaped my wedding. They told me that one couple cleared a space on the front pew so that this company could superimpose a still photo of a deceased grandmother during their ceremony.
Some people live in a whole different universe. Or, if they don’t, they want the record to show that they did anyway.