miscellany

Wikipedia: Maceration is defined as the softening and breaking down of skin resulting from prolonged exposure to moisture. It was first described …

tolstoy’s essay: PDF: https://archive.org/download/tolstoyonshakes02tolsgoog/tolstoyonshakes02tolsgoog.pdf online read: http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/shakespeare-tolstoy/1/ orwell’s rebuttal: lear, tolstoy and the fool http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/english/e_ltf   ======== https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/adventures-in-old-age/200912/battle-the-titans-tolstoy-disses-shakespeare http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/tolstoy-calls-shakespeare-an-insignificant-inartistic-writer.html http://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2016/06/in-defence-of-shakespeare-tolstoy-and-orwell.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/11/tolstoy-thought-chekhov-worse-than-shakespeare

recently, i had to explain the shakespeare authorship controversy to a friend; and i shared some links with him: shakespeare authorship 101 …

i got busy with dozens of things and forgot my own little cornet – as i was writing on so many other …

some of these cartoons by scott adams are as old as1995 and in 2012, not much has changed. corporations hire expensive suits …

we shall be deploying powervms soon (the new p7 hardware should be here by next month) and so i decided to read …

this site has some selections: http://bestofcalvinandhobbes.com/ the first calvin comic i read: weigh bridge is this some sort of a trick question …

SOPA: why do we have to break the dns? SOPA in one page, from the EFF (pdf link); and a little more …