Get the PDF: revised 1 May 2007 “Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun / To telle yow al the condicioun / Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, / And whiche they weren, and of what degree.” So says Geoffrey Chaucer’s narrator in the General Prologue, and Chaucer continues to tell his readers [...]
I saw the film adaptation of this book on the same day I started it. I was about 50 pages in. Although the movie condensed some of the plot for brevity’s sake, and obviously excluded some of the political nuance that Buckley captures so well, I thought that after seeing the movie, I’d more or [...]
The “Presenting an essay about the intersection of Gender Studies and Mediæval Studies is an easy way to confuse education majors” edition The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band with Choir • Sow Some Lonesome Corners So Many Flowers Bloom Sia • Don’t Bring Me Down Ani Difranco • Slide Tiamat • Kaleidoscope [...]
I read 20’000 Leagues Under the Sea when I was a young boy and thought it was wonderful (science fiction at its finest), and imagine my surprise when I happened upon an article one day that mentioned another book, The Mysterious Island, which served as a sort of sequel. Well, I would see about that! [...]
get the PDF Everyone wants to claim the GUI. The first iteration of Windows as we know it was released in 1985, and featured a crude—by today’s standard—GUI advertised by a frenetic Steve Ballmer on TV. Microsoft, however, was beaten to the punch by Apple, whose Lisa line of personal computers was the first mass-marketed [...]