The ultimate snack-chip adjective

“As any snack aficionado knows, crunch-tastic is the ultimate snack-chip adjective, outranking crunch-riffic, crunch-rageous, and even crunch-mongous.” The Onion. Similar:The Nagus (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 11) Quark is named the financial lead…Rewatching ST:DS9 In an episode focus…CultureThe Ongoing Obsession with Shakespeare’s True IdentityI’ve never been all too keen on Shakespe…AcademiaFrodo Baggins, A.B.D.When I…

Textual detective Don Foster works with the FBI

For textual detective Don Foster, “it’s certainly been interesting going to Shakespeare class, coming back to my office and talking with the FBI or the police department about some document in a criminal case.”  Todd Winters. Similar:15 Grammar Goofs That Make You Look SillyBeautiful synergy of word and image. Pro…AestheticsRiding on Square WheelsStan Wagon, a…

MLA-Style Bibliography Builder

— updated to handle web sources  Choose a form, fill it out, and push the button… you will get an individual MLA “Works Cited” entry, which you may then copy and paste into your word processor. Dennis G. Jerz —MLA-Style Bibliography Builder Similar:Headlines: Why editors matter in journalism.Headlines are important. (Send an editor…AmusingTime Might Only…

David Carkeet exposes Titanic blunders

Every damn fool knows that the phrase “masters of the universe” came from a 1980s TV show. So why did they put that anachronism in the Titanic movie script? After spending all that money on sets and special effects, did they have nothing left to hire a starving English grad student? And when Rose gives…

2000 Archive

Here is a link to my 2000 blogging archives, as preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Similar:Mostly German, sometimes refreshing my high school Latin.PersonalShall we dance? The girl tries on her ball gown for The King and I. Her featured show is …DanceMy big brother and my son facing off at chess. I am…

1999 Archive

I began blogging sometime in 1999, but didn’t begin dating my entries until July 20. Here is a link to my 1999 blogging archives, as preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Similar:Elevator shaft on a #steampunk #blender3d cruiser, just because. #design #aesthetics #blen… AestheticsThe chief engineer has a forward-facing station, on a platform above…