2057 pages of polysyllabic fun!

I am currently rereading The Riverside Shakespeare.

This weighty tome (7.33 pounds) is the complete and heavily illustrated, annotated, commented collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Gorgeous reading.

Shown here is the ~1979 edition. This is my old textbook from the days when I was a literature major. This edition is minus Edward III and "A Funeral Elegy," which scholars have identified as Shakespeare's works since its printing.

This particular copy also features the penned comments of my 21-year-old self, including "hedgepig = young hedgehog" and "I'm pretty sure he's calling her a slut."

I am reading the volume from cover to cover out loud during the daily carpooling commute (44 miles round-trip). This is excellent practice for daily 21st-Century tête - à - têtes.

I highly recommend The Riverside Shakespeare! The author posesses an impressive vocabluary and altogether has much promise as a writer.

My only recommendation is that future editions come equipped with a pull-out handle and wheels.

Announcing the 45th Eastern Primitive Rendezvous

The 45th Eastern Primitive Rendezvous takes place September 23-October 1, 2022. For more information, visit the official EPR website and Facebook group . We will be hosting the 45th Eastern Primitive Rendezvous on our family farm, near East Smithfield, PA. The dates are September 23 - October 1, 2022. This is a living-history event depicting 18th-century activities. Visitors can tour the camp each day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, September 27 is School Tours Day, during which we welcome classes from all of the area schools. Campers need to preregister ( nrlhf.org/pdf/pre-reg.pdf ), and period-correct clothing and gear are required. For the exact location and more details, visit the official EPR website and Facebook group . For those of you who attended the 2017 EPR, this is the same location.

facebook, time to grow up

Originally published on August 28, 2006 I appreciate how Facebook has enabled me to connect with colleagues, and (younger) family members in a manner that is both informative and expressly cordial. It attracts students like Nutella attracts chocolate lovers, and because of that, I see interesting potential here. In fact, one of our faculty members at Penn State plans to try running his human-computer interaction course through Facebook this fall . Definitely worth pursuing.

how to make the worst of your content management system

I recently heard tell of the following activity, parading as content migration to an enterprise level content management system. I am not making this up: Copy large volumes of Web-content-to-be, page by page, into separate Dreamweaver files containing the design (created and sliced up in FireWorks) Copy/paste said Dreamweaver files into content wells of the content management system Repeat this activity ad infinitum until an entire Web presence is constructed in this fashion always crashing in the same car: recurring mistakes and misuses of the web When I heard this, something inside me snapped. Aside from the stunning inefficiency inherent in creating all these disparate Dreamweaver files, this activity points to a fundamental lack of understanding of what exactly a content managment system is. In the interest of quelling this misunderstanding in others, here follows a list of what not to do with a CMS: Dump a bad Web site into a good CMS. If your organization's Web presence is a ...

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