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I’ve started reading a Yeats collection and I have to say in not digging it. I’m only a dozen or so poems in, so maybe it’s arranged chronologically and he hasn’t come into his full power yet. But it’s helping solidify what I struggle with

The song Until I Fall Away by the Gin Blossoms has a strange grammatical construct in the first sentence: I want to tell if I am or I am not myself Gin Blossoms,

I was thinking about why I always find case/switch statements in programming languages unintuitive to read and write. It’s always been kind of an itch in the back of my mind but I hadn’t really given it conscious thought. But today I realized the

I wrote this post a while back about a poetry-like genre of prose and what I’m learning now is the 600 page version of that genre is In Search of Lost Time. I’m still not sure if a 1-2 paragraph v

Only 30 years too late, I’m listening to the Gin Blossoms’ New Miserable Experience. I’ve sometimes heard people comment that the “you can trust me not to think” line from Hey Jealousy would make more sense as “you can trust me not to

My company is on the verge of upgrading our website to PHP version 8, so I’ve been reading up in the new features. One that I really struggled to wrap my head around was match

And a hound that lay there raised his head and pricked up his ears, Argos, the hound of Odysseus, of the steadfast heart…There lay the hound Argos, full of vermin; yet even now, when he marked Odysseus standing near, he wagged his tai

Because my music knowledge is more deep than broad, I recently listened for the first time to Neutral Milk Hotel’s critically acclaimed In The Aeroplane Over the Sea. My buddy Scott (hey man, if you’re reading this, what’s up?) was pushin

I was surprised when I saw an essay in The Lamp on writing English prose, and discovered the byline was none other than David Bentley Hart. My initial reacti

Sometimes Chesterton hits on a really striking image, and he likes it so much he can’t stop hims