A couple days ago, one of my students asked me how I thought the Denver Broncos would do this coming year. I didn’t answer. One of the beautiful things about the NFL, of course, is that one never knows what will happen on the proverbial “any given Sunday,” so I’m …
In my last post I included a clip from “one of the two best Hamlets on film.” The second one, in case you were wondering, is this short masterpiece, which comes up at least once every term:
I’ve been teaching summer school for a few weeks, which is a much bigger drain on my time and energy than I would have imagined, and we’ve now reached the point in the term where we delve into Shakespeare. Due to a failure on someone’s part — not sure where …
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about getting a fancy-pants cellphone, perhaps even canceling my land-line in the process. In particular, I’ve been pondering the prospects of the new iPhone 3GS. It is unquestionably a terrific little smartphone, one that ought to do precisely what I think new technology should do: …
It continually shocks my students (and some other folks, too) that I have no cellphone beyond an old pay-as-you-go thingamajig that I’ve used on long trips in case of an emergency. It’s not that I’m a luddite; I’ve just never seen the point of actually having a cell in any …