(Recently discovered verses of Emily Dickinson, apparently penned upon posthumously reading the first two definitions from T.L. Heath’s translation of Euclid’s Elements.) A point is that w… more →
the new potatoSeosamh wrote 1 week ago: (Recently discovered verses of Emily Dickinson, apparently penned upon posthumously reading the firs … more →
Seosamh wrote 1 month ago: An unfinished thought: It is not that I have anything against the card catalog, merely that it is on … more →
Seosamh wrote 1 month ago: I picked up a copy of Walden and Other Writings from the local bookstore back in February in order t … more →
Seosamh wrote 1 month ago: It would be no small advantage if every college were thus located at the base of a mountain, wrote T … more →
Seosamh wrote 1 month ago: Reading Asimov’s Of Time and Space and Other Things I was surprised to learn that, factoring f … more →
Seosamh wrote 2 months ago: In these troubled times, consolation comes even from the most unlikely of sources. The mystic wisdom … more →
Seosamh wrote 2 months ago: It is a shame that heraldry, like calligraphy, has fallen out of common consciousness and understand … more →
Seosamh wrote 2 months ago: Emile Durkheim: “Fundamentally, then, there are no reasons for [crossing the road] that are fa … more →
Seosamh wrote 2 months ago: He asked me if I knew what was for lunch. “Behold the fowls of the air,” I answered, … more →
Seosamh wrote 2 months ago: Once in college I nearly fell asleep in a Historical Linguistics class. We were analyzing a Polynes … more →
Seosamh wrote 3 months ago: We have seen the future and the future is colored pianos. Is it not a shame that an instrument so su … more →
Seosamh wrote 3 months ago: Bach invented the pianoforte so that he could play both piano and forte. When Bartolomeo Cristofori … more →
Seosamh wrote 3 months ago: Back in December I had occasion to spend a few minutes of a Saturday evening looking up at the star … more →
Seosamh wrote 3 months ago: The German language: not beautiful, perhaps, but meaningful in the most literal sense of the word. T … more →
Michael wrote 1 year ago: Last year I took an absolutely fascinating class with Dr Natasha Artemeva in the applied linguistics … more →