I’m not a terribly big fan of Halloween. I don’t like slash-and-gore movies, and I don’t like all of the occult-ish stuff that abounds. I ignore all the creepy, spooky stuff in the stores and it was actually a relief to walk through the Christmas aisle at Target last night. (Yes, […]

“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs” has a Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level of 2.3, meaning an average second-grader could read and understand it.
“The tawny fox catapults over the lethargic canines with celerity” has a reading level of 11.9, meaning that it would be understood by seniors in high school. (And never mind […]

This quarter, I decided to knock out my last humanities class. My curriculum prescribes three of these courses: Introduction to Art, Music and Literature (100), Origins of Western Culture (101), and Philosophy, Religion and Ethics (400). Additionally, humanities courses are options in two of the mathematics requirements: Logic (200) versus Pre-calculus, and […]

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Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar who tried to use his influence from Florence, Italy to reform the Roman Catholic Church in the late 15th century. Though he attracted a great deal of followers, his attempts at reformation ended instead in his excommunication in 1497 and execution in […]

Thanks for the well wishes on my birthday yesterday, the sentiments expressed mean a lot. (Except for one female friend who wouldn’t humor my innuendos - she gets nothing but pouts.)
Jessica has arranged to have one of my favorite knives sharpened (it has to be done at the factory), and she bought and installed […]