I don’t know how the cadets feel about it, but I’m excited. And they seem a decent lot — not that one can tell much in the first couple weeks. I’m teaching three official courses this term: two sections of 101 (MWF 10-11 and 11-12) and one of 203 (MWF …
As can be seen from the progress meters at left, one of my current on-the-burner projects is a novel about Caesarion, the child of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. The opening prologue of this novel takes place at Caesar’s “country” villa across the Tiber from Rome, where Caesarion and his mother …
Spent part of the afternoon in my office at work, polishing up my weapons. (The cadets are about to return to campus, you know.) Anyway, I was in the midst of working on my sword — a beautiful battle-ready replica of the supposed sword of the Black Prince — when …
Breaking news from the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation in Waterloo, ON (I’m not making this up): any Rubik’s Cube (remember these things?) can be solved in less than 26 moves: The study brings scientists one step closer to finding the so-called “God’s Number” which is the minimum …
Johan suggests Coolio’s “Gangster’s Paradise” to be Chaucer’d. A fine suggestion, but, alas, I can’t sing/rap/whatever. Seriously. I got no voice for it. In addition, ’tis hard to imagine making anything more funny out of this song than Weird Al’s “Amish Paradise”: