PhD Dropout / Master sounds better than Doctor anyhow, right? / Comics / Illustrated Read-alongs / Currently The Anatomy of Melancholy
In these two pages, Robert Burton fills us in on the mostly unknown details of the life of Democritus (Senior). Apparently he retired to the suburbs. Burton then describes the character of “Democritus Junior” aka Robert Burton. It sounds like Burton is a melancholic type, surprise surprise, who likes to be alone with his books, […]
Deconstruction, literary studies: Deconstruction is a method of literary analysis with roots in the work of philosopher Jacques Derrida. According to Wikipedia, “This article has multiple issues.” Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself. – J. Hillis Miller, “Stevens’ Rock […]
Log-space transducer, computer science: “A log-space transducer is a type of Turing machine used for log-space reductions.” (Wikipedia)
Over the weekend I heard from a few people who are still endeavoring to get their hands on a copy of the COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED Anatomy of Melancholy, so I held off on reading for a few days. But I positively cannot wait to get moving, so here I go with a slow start, beginning with The Very […]
So I am using WordPress to make this bloggity blog blog thing because I never took any computer classes in college, which was a terrible life choice. A few people have mentioned/complained to me that one cannot comment on my blog without logging in with WordPress, Facebook, or some other sites that I have never even […]
Differentiation, education studies: “Differentiated instruction and assessment (also known as differentiated learning or, in education, simply, differentiation) is a framework or philosophy for effective teaching that involves providing different students with different avenues to learning (often in the same classroom) in terms of: acquiring content; processing, constructing, or making sense of ideas; and developing teaching […]
This morning my son woke up at 4am screaming like a banshee because his mouth was hurting (teeth) and he mostly kept it up until 6:15, varying the volume only slightly. Somewhere in there my daughter gave me a hug and said, “Mommy, I wish I had your eyes and you had mine.” I have […]
One reason I did not do incredibly well in grad school was that I am not very good at writing about poetry. Honestly, I had a lot going on, but let’s blame poetry. I cannot write about a poem without killing it, like a real bloody mess, and afterwards the detective says that clearly the murderer […]
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