oldest structure – for a moment i thought it was this absolutely beautiful japanese complex (horyuji temple), place of worship, built around 700 something ce with 2,000 year old japanese cypress…that’s just so boss…that would be a nice place to visit…

turns out though – it’s king midas’ dad’s tomb…his name was gordias…he had this structure made of juniper, sealed in clay, buried by a lot of earth – large burial mound basically…anyways, that was like 700 something bp, like 1,500 years earlier…god bless mud and clay…

some of the numbers do seem crazy.

Trivia question:

What do Al Horford, Amar’e Stoudemire, Rashard Lewis, Jermaine O’Neal, Allan Houston, Dikembe Mutumbo, and Horace Grant all have in common?

a) They all led the league in BPM.

b) They all popped ‘roids.

c) They are all best friends with World Wide Wes

d) They are all Jewish.

e) They all were at one point the 2nd highest paid players in the NBA despite not even being in the top-20 in talent because the crazy numbers almost always win out over the rational numbers during the July free-agent bonanza.

i think the number is like 1,000 able bodied folks of both genders to propagate a population…

interesting to corelate the weather with the migration and known artifacts…can’t guess at stuff, gotta have some evidence – there’s a lot, but, not in a promising 50k to 10k way – large sedentary tribes (not sure what that pop number is) doing long distance trade – but, no civilization…

at some point would like to learn more about their gear, radar stuff in particular…

all that to say – i came across some really cool cave paintings that i’d like to buy 🙂

oh yeah – found it pleasing to read that folks most likely had a lot more leisure time 20 to 30 thousand years ago…

that’s curious about the low pops…they were safe, warm, fed, most likely with accessible waterways…why not more people? need to understand the diet thing better, roots, tubers, fruit, grains, protein stuff…

The Heat pay $45M to Lowry & Duncan Robinson alone.

kyle lowry started 44 out of 55 games this year….

that amount of money to TWO bench pieces is a relatively large investment… the denver nuggets in comparison paid their entire bench 16mm…and the heat paid 36mm… the warriors the most capped out of all teams paid 30mm…

The Heat pay $45M to Lowry & Duncan Robinson alone.

The Lakers spent $25M on Mo Bamba and Malik Beasley and they barely saw the court in the playoffs.

The Nuggets had a cheap bench and they played like it during the regular season. Bruce Brown is going to leave this offseason unless he gives up a lot of money.

You only need 3 or 4 good bench pieces. Centers come cheap and the last spot can be filler.

Although there’s more punitive measures with the new CBA, the new TV deal is coming soon and these numbers probably won’t seem all that crazy.