So I’ve been sending out weekly emails with the homework for the week written out point-by-point for my students. They like it better than a handout in class, because they can’t lose it, they’re forced to confront it when they … Continue reading →

In the spirit of Pi day, I thought I’d share how I managed to memorize 100 digits of Pi five years ago. I no longer remember it — but I know this is the way in which I memorized it. … Continue reading →

I like don’t even get Twitter so I couldn’t really wrap my head around a bot and also I don’t have a spreadsheet program and it all seemed quite challenging so I just made a thing. I wanted to provide … Continue reading →

When Michelle and I first moved to Pittsburgh, we spent a long time on Craigslist looking for a place to live. But we quickly found that the majority of Craigslist was run by two or three main companies: Forbes Management, … Continue reading →

Right now I don’t think I have the capacity to string together anything remotely intelligent, so I hope the font speaks for itself. It may look like this did not take me any time at all. But it did. Here … Continue reading →

For homework, I asked my students to submit three prompts derived from poems in Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Was an Aztec. This is one of them. 6. If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted Chest Ruled the World Write a … Continue reading →

So I’ve been reading Ana Božičević religiously (which coincidentally means choosing poems randomly from her BOOK! over and over), and trying to do the thing that she does with her language. The poems I linked to come from EOAGH’s Queering … Continue reading →

Michelle and I were considering writing in her old journals. Of which there are many. They are very important to her: every now and again she pulls them out to remind herself (I think) of before. To look at how … Continue reading →

In the computer game Civilization V, you start the game as the leader of one of many civilizations all positioned at the beginning of agriculture, and you have to lead this civilization throughout the industrial age and the modern era … Continue reading →