Short stories can be difficult to process. It seems ironic that the lack of material provided through a short story

My first impressions of Hemingway were how simple of a language he wrote his short stories. They were easy and interesting to read. It was almost as if the stories just flowed along like the boat they road in to see the pregnant woman. And yet, when I finished the story, Indian Camp. I was … Continue reading “Uncle George Gave Both Indians a Cigar”

Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840. Traveller Looking Over the Sea of Fog, Wanderer Above the Sea of Mist, Wanderer Above the Mists. c.1818. Ah yes, there’s nothing better then the feeling that you’ve joined the club. My friend, who is an English grad student here, hosted a Halloween party last month where the theme was to… Read More How was I suppose to read Hemingway?

500 Days of Summer is a love story that isn’t quite a love story. The guy doesn’t get the girl. They do not go skipping into the sunset and everything is not okay. It has the two best actors (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel). 500 Days of […]

I have protanopia or red-green color blindness. No I don’t see in black and white and yes I know that

This project was so interesting for me to look at because of all the colors. I love putting things in rainbow order and color-coding my closet. Seeing all of these covers organized by color really satisfied that little part of…

Reading all the different pieces to “Robots Reading Vogue,” I was impressed by how many tools there were at the digital humanists disposal. Every new piece we read had at least one new tool for looking at and ordering data in large chunks. It made it really easy to see…