Wakies

http://gizmodo.com/we-were-wrong-about-how-ancient-humans-colonized-north-1785086135

This is pretty cool, but...I thought this wasn't exactly news; I mean, C-14 dating has revealed plenty of pre-Clovis artifacts and sites, and coastal archaeology has shown that there are campsites/habitation areas all over (many of which are now underwater).  There are still some people, I would suspect, who are bitter clingers as to the Clovis people being first, but...

Tomlin had a second straight bad start.  Ugh.  Could be a phase, or, well, that sixth starter might come in handy.  McAllister had a good outing -- curveball seemed to work some of the time, which for him is the key.  I don't quite share the optimism (and hopefully, no one in the dugout does, either) of Tom Hamilton that he will soon return to the mix of useful relievers, but being someone they could use on the dumpster fire starts would be nice.  Manship is supposedly ready to come back tomorrow; I wonder why they didn't get him a rehab start somewhere, just to make sure.  Getting him back (he would be the fifth reliever, with Miller and Otero surpassing him) would also be nice.  In the meantime, Crockett -- who was left in too long in his last outing -- will be the superfluous deck chair.  In all honesty, splitting with the Nationals was..well, the best that could be expected, given that they, too, are a good team.

Finished the Hapsburg book -- despite the title, the author's point seemed to be that the Empire wasn't exactly dying in 1914, or before...it may not have been the power it was previously, but the author made the point that -- until flamed by nationalism -- few if any wanted to see it broken apart, and that many people seemed to believe that they were all better together.  I've always felt that much of what happened later in the last century was due to the fact that there wasn't another European power to serve as a check/brake/modifying force on the others; the Kingdom of Yugoslavia didn't cut it, and I think people realized it from the start...

Up to 447 on the film list -- watched two good ones over the past days.  "House of Usher" (a retelling of the Poe story, starring Vincent Price) and the original "The Manchurian Candidate."  The first had, well, good acting and, I think, a good set; the second was fairly...well, taut, and I think it really played to the fears of the time of the Red Menace...