The More You Know…

Making Shakespeare understandable with common household items, a tabletop, and good storytelling

Reading Shakespeare is torture. He wrote in verse, in 16th-century English, for a 16th-century audience whose only other entertainment options…

5 years ago

The “Two beers and a puppy” test

Here’s a page from Ross McCammon’s book, Works Well with Others: An Outsider’s Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling…

5 years ago

Technically, a “buttload” is an actual unit of measure

For more information: Possibly the best Wikipedia article title ever: Butt (unit) Also Wikipedia: English wine cask units The difference between a…

5 years ago

Last night’s side dish: “Layogenic” curried cauliflower

For the next five weeks, I’m teaching an online Python class from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Mondays and…

5 years ago

Cheapass handyman hint of the day: Yea, though I walk through the valley of hex-wrench shelving, I shall fear no assembly…

...for I studied physics, and I have duct tape. Here’s the story: I was assembling a set of shelves for…

5 years ago

Terrible People Tuesday, part three: Atlas Grifted (or: The Ayn Rand Institute took a government PPP handout)

Among the organizations to accept a loan from the government-run, taxpayer-funded Paycheck Protection Program (a.k.a. the PPP) is none other…

5 years ago

Burned on the 4th of July (or: Your annual reminder about fireworks safety)

With most fireworks displayed canceled due to the pandemic, there will be more than the usual number of people lighting…

5 years ago

Florida of the day: Please don’t microwave library books

The public library of Temple Terrace (a Tampa neighborhood just a little north of Seminole Heights, where I live) had…

5 years ago

What do “stan” and “spilling tea” mean?

I have a number of readers from outside North America who’ve asked me the meaning of two American English expressions: stan…

5 years ago