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”:
It has been suggested, among other things, that I consider Chaucerin’ a recent mega-double-chocolate-bestselling novel by Hack Bro… I mean, Dan Brown: The DaVinci Code. Or, as I term it, The DuhVinci Code. The sins of this book — both from a writer’s perspective and an academic one — have …
I just moved in — I haven’t even unpacked all the boxes around here yet — and already I see all manner of folks coming ’round for a visit! Welcome! It ain’t gonna be all-Chaucer all-the-time around here (though you can expect at least a few more books to be …
In a fit of rage against working on my syllabi for the coming term, I took a snippet from John Scalzi’s novel Old Man’s War (chapter 9 for those playing at home) and, well, Chaucer’d it. That is, I took Scalzi’s text and translated it into Chaucer’s dialect. Details follow …