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September 9, 2024September 12, 2024

The Coolest Thing the Accountants Said (about History)

An original Summa Arithmetica printed in 1494

Everything you know about this is entirely wrong, and it’s just getting worse.

Accountants are as interested in words and form as they are about numbers.

Pay attention to Nothing.

Did you get this far? Mentioning the dreaded word–accounting–didn’t scare you off? (yet?) I feel trusted.

I spent three days in Siena, Italy, among the brightest and sagest of accounting historians. They are a terrifically brilliant and friendly lot, and I was privileged to talk a little myself about my research and medieval accounting (and Christine de Pisan SQUEEEEE). I heard a couple of presentations that I thought even y’all would find interesting, so I promise to skip the bits about Michel Foucault, isomorphism, and The Institutional Method. Herein, I pass on a few juicy items that you, my blog public, will appreciate.

July 26, 2024July 27, 2024

The Paradoxical International Parade of Nations

Greece comes first, even if the nation of Greece bears little resemblance to the vision of ancient Olympia. Photo from Newscaststudio.com.

This is ultimately a story about flag dipping–or the lack thereof–and how the American media lied about it, until it turned into yet another “Land of the Free” myth based on false information. But in order to get there, we have to dig into another subject first, the underlying paradox of the Games.

May 22, 2024May 22, 2024

Flying My Dork Flag in “The Dork Forest”

*thunk* *thunk*

Can you hear the sound of me bouncing off the walls? That’s because I did an episode of “The Dork Forest,” hosted by the phenomenal podcaster and comic Jackie Kashian. We talk Olympics, we talk women in sports, we talk about what to watch in Paris. And I believe I said, “did you know…” at least twelve times.

I fly the dork flag, I flash the dork badge, I proudly use my exclusive dork encoder ring to unlock special features.