I’m so lazy. I was doing really well for a while, blogging frequently. Then I just stopped. Enough of that, I’m back to blogging. Chad has been nagging me for ages to write some stuff. Turns out I had a half-finished article on how to make short films. Well, I finished it. It’s an amazing [...]
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Is South Korea Taking Lessons from the North?
The South Korean government is currently investigating Samsung over the “unfairly low price” it is being paid by Apple for the flash memory used in iPods. Apparently Samsung is providing the chips at a cheaper price than what Korean music player manufacturers are paying. Yesterday Apple announced that it would prepay Samsung for $500 million [...]
Problems with the Open Document Format
InformationWeek has a new article, “Sun Updates StarOffice; Touts Open Document Advantage Over Microsoft.” Before I mock Sun Microsystems, I should say that I do, in fact, like the idea of StarOffice (and the free variant, OpenOffice.org). It’s a full-fledged office suite that you can get for free (in the case of OpenOffice.org) or for [...]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Though I didn’t blog about it, I had been very eagerly anticipating the sixth book in J.K. Rowling’s series. My greatest objection is that I still must wait another two years for the seventh book. Thankfully the fourth film comes out in November. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a phenomenal book. It maintains [...]
Third Viewing of Star Wars
As a Father’s Day gift, I paid for my dad and me to go see Episode III. I’ve already written about seeing it before, but I have some additional observations, having seen it three times. There are a few lines in it that, first time around, seemed pretty bad. They appeared either treacle or melodramatic. [...]
Political Opportunism and its Role in the Catilinarian Conspiracy
[The following is a research paper for my Roman history classes completed ten minutes before class started.] The Catilinarian Conspiracy rose in the turbulent years of the late second to mid-first century BCE. Lucius Catiline represented himself as a representative of the lower classes and a friend of liberty. He conspired against the government of [...]
The Issue of Moral Culpability in Euripides’s Phoenician Women
I wrote a paper for my Greek tragedies class Monday night. Indeed, I didn’t even start reading the play until 9 pm. I’m not sure if it shows, but I suspect it might. See for yourself. Note: I took out all of the references to where the quotes from the play came out of (no [...]
Volition in Electra
All drama seeks to answer one critical question: what does it mean to be human? For many plays, this question also involves an analysis of man’s relationship to the divine, if such a thing even exists. Both Euripides’s and Sophocles’s versions of Electra challenge traditional religious views and man’s dependence upon the gods. Ultimately, both [...]
The Impact of Ironclads in the Execution of the Anaconda Plan
I did it! I stayed up all of last night and finished my research paper for my Civil War class. Unfortunately, I have an even bigger paper due Wednesday; fortunately, I have all day tomorrow to work on it.
School is Hard
This has been a good semester, but a hard one. My Shakespeare class is going well; I understand the language of our current play, Measure for Measure, far better than I did our previous one, Othello. I am behind in my reading for my Civil War class, but that’s not tragic. Latin is, as always, [...]