Serenity… an expedition

(Yes, yes this is an odd post but, strangely, my site comes up first (at the moment) in a Google search for “luddite-ism” – who even knew that was a real way of writing that? – I am so proud, lol. Anyway, from the number of people looking for a definition of that term, I’m [...]

You know how you learn something, and you know it intellectually, you can recite the why’s and the wherefore’s of it, and can explain it to someone else – but you know, and you know you know, that you just don’t get it?
Well, that was me – with any number of things (like long, rambly [...]

i am accused of tending to the past as if i made it, as if i sculpted it with my own hands. i did not. this past was waiting for me when i came, a monstrous unnamed [...]

I really need a laptop. That’s one thing I’ve realized since my classes started. Of course, I knew that before, but now in order to do all the things I want to do – work on these classes, blog, renew HB and so on, I really need to be able to just pick up and [...]

English is a funny language. So many words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings – that’s gotta be pretty annoying for English language learners, I imagine. Although, from what I understand, Manderin Chinese is much worse (or, rather, much more difficult) to learn.
When I was young I’d read [...]

I clicked through a Google search for “old pictures” today, looking for inspiration.  I was thinking more of something “retro”. Instead I found this and thought it was interesting. It definitely qualifies as “old”.
Here’s what wikipedia has to say:
Old Nubian is an ancient variety of Nubian, spoken until about the 15th century AD. It is [...]

The hardest part (besides just making myself do it) is going to be to find optimum time to work on this, relatively free of distractions. Okay, well I know there is little hope for the last, so will just have to figure out a way to ignore or work around the distractions. Focus! etcetera.
Darn. I [...]

The ones named CSS and PHP, that is. Oh, we’ll toss in HTML and DHTML as well, but even now I’ll have nothing to do with MySQL. (Let us just hope my database is not struck dead out of pique.)
I have a lot of plans for Human Beams but I’ve realized that one holdup has [...]