Published: December 17, 2025
I have, from time to time, joked that I stopped enjoying Shakespeare when asked to compare characters from disparate works and brocolli. My most recent was in September, when I made the joke in Shakespeare in Planning. In the meantime, a coworker gave a presentation on Google's NotebookLM. I decided to test it out for helping me study for a…
Read more...Published: October 05, 2025
I have been studying Hamlet for almost a month and have enjoyed the experience. In total, I have been studying for nearly 21 hours (1,243 minutes), not counting the time spent writing about it. When I was a student, I remember calculating how many pages I would have to read each day just to study the works I was simultaneously…
Read more...Published: September 11, 2025
Damn. Damn. Damn. ("Good Times", Season 4, ep 1) Studying Hamlet made me think of my old professor, who wasn't that old when he was mine. I wanted to reach out to him to say, "I'm finally studying Hamlet lol" only to find that he had shuffled off this mortal coil (Hamlet 3.1.75) a mere 7 years ago. Professor Stephen…
Read more...Published: September 07, 2025
Background I am a recovering English Lit major. I graduated with a degree in information technology, not with a liberal arts degree in English literature. However, one of the classes that just killed me as an English major was Shakespeare. We had to read a thousand plays and sonnets and write papers about them -- papers like "compare and contrast…
Read more...Published: November 11, 2024
After a break of ... (checks notes... that can't be right...) ... a long time, I am returning to updating this thing. Really, it's not my fault. Well, it is. But not really. Being a relative neophyte to journaling, OK, a failed practitioner, but you see, while reaching for my coffee, I grabbed a cactus instead and it took a…
Read more...Published: November 01, 2015
My 6th grader asked me this evening about the classic novel, Don Quixote. "Like, what's it about, Dad?" I gave her a synopsis she could identify: Miguel Cervantes wrote Don Quixote in Spanish at the same time Shakespeare was writing his plays in English. Have you ever loved a series of books so much that you could identify with the…
Read more...Published: August 12, 2015
so much depends upon a fresh dough nut glazed with maple icing beside the black coffee. — Based on The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
Read more...Published: July 16, 2015
Introduction I have been thinking about numbers for most of my life. It wasn't until I helped my oldest child learn to count to 20 that I thought that the way we count in the English language is silly. There is no logic in our base-10 counting system until we get to 17: "fif teen" (what's a "fif?") is followed…
Read more...Published: May 12, 2015
The LCHF diet can be summarized as follows: "The fat you eat flows through; the fat you make sticks to you."
Read more...Published: May 05, 2015
Today is the unofficial Star-Wars-fan holiday known as the Revenge of the Fifth. Last year, I noticed that 5/5 (numerical representation of 5 May, or is that May 5?) can be written in binary as 101 101. Or more artistically as: |o| |o|