pompeii

Though, in fact, wandering through virtual Pompeii makes me really want to go back to Pompeii.

In the Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeii, the romans in pompeii constructed a digital computer using blue prints given to be them by some aliens and doctor who destroyed it.

Their universes disconnect the moment they make contact, but Marcus knows Pompeii well and escapes the eruption just before it happens.

To my mind, it rivals Pompeii in conveying an impression of Roman life.

Some of the Pompeii erotic art may have had a practical purpose.

I saw a documentary about Pompeii that mentioned erotic murals at a public bath.

Look at how they built Pompeii for the local conditions.

The walls on the streets of Pompeii are full of advertising -- they had an election going on and people just scribbled slogans and such on walls.

Yesterday I asked ChatGPT to riff on a humorous Pompeii graffiti.

> The walls on the streets of Pompeii are full of advertising -- they had an election going on and people just scribbled slogans and such on walls.

If the graffiti of Pompeii is any indication humans want to be short, crass and coarse and I am okay with that and I think that is something we should accept and embrace as a society and culture.

These were not the "normal" kind of erotic scenes you would find in Pompeii or other Roman cities.

It was a raw "proof-of-concept" about an archaeology student in Pompeii who can text across time to a Roman slave.

Lots of stuff from the well known "Pompeii's excavation" to the esoteric "The great molasses flood of 1916".

Visited Rome/Pompeii with my GF and she said it was like having a private tour guide.

Cultural understanding is important to anthropologists and shows up as well (e.g., graffiti at Pompeii).

Ask those people at Pompeii, who were frozen into position from volcanic ash.