Author Archives: matt

From Triple-H. Pretty clever, especially by the standards of online quizzes. Ottava rima? Me? That can’t be right!   Too frivolous? But tut, there’s no such thing!Let others ponder thoughts of wrong and right,   Or sit and think how much they love the … Continue reading →

My gmail account name, as you might notice from the side of the page, consists of a pretty common English word; even if it doesn’t come up in your everyday conversations, it’s not one that you’d pay much attention to … Continue reading →

Amontillado somehow doesn’t seem worth the risk of getting sealed away in a cellar.

The Internet is a source for a great many good things, as long as you don’t care about accuracy. Most recent evidence: I’m figuring out the chords to a Loudon Wainwright song (White Winos, if you’re curious) and it’s one … Continue reading →

Notes from the beginning of spring: I’ve finally done the smart, sensible thing and cancelled my NetFlix subscription. It turns out that I don’t actually feel likely watching movies by myself very often, and certainly not so often that I … Continue reading →

Cheddar that has been aged for two years or more really shouldn’t taste like process cheese food. Damn you, Vermont! I blame you!

The thing about daylight saving time is that we believe it. I look at the clock in the corner of the screen, and it tells me that it’s 2:43 in the afternoon. Twenty-four hours ago it wasn’t, but I look … Continue reading →

For the past week I’ve mostly been using Firefox at the office. This is a phase I go through every now and again: I tire of how slow Safari can get, and how some of the fancy stuff out on … Continue reading →

For the past twenty-four hours, the city where I live has been in a state of snow emergency: essentially, the word from the mayor’s office has been to stay off the roads. I can’t say that I was particularly tempted, … Continue reading →

One effect of the winter-that-is is that I’m driving into school more; this is partly due to the fact that the obligations of shovelling various walkways (including the one from the street to my building on campus) are being honoured … Continue reading →