I hope for the sake of the Steenkamp family this is the end of it. Her poor parents don’t need to keep reliving this in court over and over again. Also no more swanky house arrest, if the higher sentence is upheld he has to go to jail this time because house arrest is only applicable to five year (or less) sentences,…

It’s not fair to Reeva Steenkamp either that she was shot to death for getting up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, but I bet they aren’t complaining about that.

If anybody is interested in learning more about actual shipwreck excavation and the ethics involved, I would highly recommend signing up for the free online class Uni of Southampton offers through Futurelearn. The next session starts February 1. I took it a few months back and it was really worth it, I learned a lot.…

Not that finding missing records isn’t a serious and important thing, but that’s like asking a neurosurgeon to set a bone. Not their area.

I would think it very unlikely that you’ll see a treasure hunter ever come away with another Atocha. UNESCO’s 2001 Convention regulating Underwater Cultural Heritage specifically excludes the law of salvage from applying to any site deemed a UCH site. They consider wrecks more than 100 years old to fall under their…

They may think only God can judge them, but that’s sure not what our legal statutes say.

Hahaha I have a pair of big vintagey black cat eye glasses and I was told by guys I know that I looked like Janine in Ghostbusters. I don’t think they meant it as a compliment but whatever, Janine was awesome.

Not just a lifesaving device; also a totally cute accessory!

Know what else isn’t very sincere? Judginess dressed up as a suggestion. Maybe the only reason it seems insincere to you is that it would be, FOR YOU. That isn’t true for everyone.

I’m willing to let hers slide since I have no idea what rich girls 150 years ago actually talked like.

Of course Scarlett O’Hara doesn’t sound like a South Carolinian, she was from Georgia!

HAHAHAHA, I had mercifully forgotten about that one. Until now, dammit.

We also owe the Irish a few national figures for Julia Roberts butchering their accent, twice.

Tom is the exception I will make. I am Texan and his Southern accent didn’t make me want to shove pencils in my ears, so he passes my test.

I was thinking the same thing. Too much flash, I think. Her face looks washed out and strangely flat.

My dad refuses to even tell me the amount. I’ve thought about doing an automatic payment guesstimate but I know that it would just come right back.

I’m still on our family plan too. I’ve offered on numerous occasions to split the bill for my portion but my dad always says no.

If my visiting hinged on this, they’d absolutely send me a plane ticket. As it is, I live within driving distance (about 3 and a half hours in the car) so I do still visit every few months or so. I used to go more frequently when Southwest had super cheap weekend fares and I didn’t have a cat to deal with.

These remind me of some of the vending machines I saw the last time I was in the airport.

If I had a piece of coal between my knees it would be a diamond now. That’s how hard that mental image made me clench my legs together just now.