Quote of the Day

"It was a long, hard slog."

- Benjamin Bagby, when asked how he memorized the first third of "Beowulf." No elaborate memory tricks here - just 15 years of working on it. Wow.

Beowulf review

I saw Benjamin Bagby's "Beowulf" at the Library of Congress last night!

( Cut for length. )

Note to self

Do not read Fark.com threads where posters are trying to figure out what a robot is or is not.

(It's not that the debate isn't actually valid - it's the smug idiots who are certain they know the answer when the word "teleoperation" isn't even in their vocabularies.)