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: August 15, 2014
I was recently talking with a non-programmer friend of mine about teaching our kids how to code. I told him about my long and winding road to loving programming. He told me that he just doesn’t get how anything so tedious as programming can hold anyone’s interest for more than 5 minutes. Visual design, on the other hand, he finds…
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