Time has changed, not reality. “Put It In Writing-But Clearly — Software makers should help writers and artists create user manuals that are easy to understand” BYLINE: Joel Solkoff SECTION: FINAL WORD; Pg. 95 LENGTH: 728 words When I left Washington nearly five years ago to take an exciting position in high-tech Research Triangle Park, […]
Archives for June 2012
Hear Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians
Click in this link to hear Strachey’s brilliant hatchet job on Florence Nightingale: http://ia601209.us.archive.org/6/items/eminent_victorians_1204_librivox/eminentvictorians_11_strachey.mp3 Why do I do what I do? Specifically, why am I making available on my website [hidden in the Blank Verse category (erroneously named)]: the work of Lytton Strachey virally available elsewhere if you care to perform a Google search (if […]
Today is Bloomsday
State College, PA, June 16, 2012, across Beaver Avenue from Webster’s Bookstore and Café where next year [not in Jerusalem, but at Webster’s] Bloomsday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday will be celebrated properly]: “Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.” This is the first […]