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I've really got nothing to say today. I am intellectually spent from trying to memorize the dictionary by listening to word lists on my ipod. I have to be still to actually memorize, so it doesn't work if I wash dishes or fold clothes.

This is a larger picture of the tiny little Hercules in the column on the right of this website. It's the Ercole Farnese of the Archaeological Museum of Naples. It's a second century (C.E. or A.D.) Roman copy in marble of a bronze by the Greek artist Glykon. I find it interesting that at 190 cm (about 6'3"), it is the same height as Michelangelo's David.

I took this in April 2006.