Recently, exasperated at one of my student’s, ah, lack of clear thinking, I said the following: “You’re killing me, Smalls!” Alas, the young fellow looked at me like I had lobsters coming out of my ears (that, too, is a great old movie reference). It seems he’d never seen that …
I spent a good portion of this afternoon upgrading the website to version 2.5 of WordPress. Rather stressful, to say the least. I adore the simultaneous ease of use and enormous flexibility of this software, but upgrading is a tremendously frightful process in which you must delete primary function folders …
I don’t post too much about the fact that I live and work on the campus of a military college, but every now and then something strikes me as rather unique about this place. This morning, for instance, not long after I rolled out of bed to greet the stacks …
I’m sure everyone knew about this, and I’m just late to the party, but … The Onion, a fine source of satire, has videos on YouTube! I had no idea until this afternoon, when an esteemed fellow medievalist (we’re all fun folk), John K. Bollard, sent me this link to …
There are many reasons to like Teddy Roosevelt. Take, for example, this, from a letter he wrote from Oyster Bay, NY, on 1 September 1903: There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we …