Zachary Lesser

Well that's why I'm pricing it so low

I'm putting the Commodore 64 I found in my parents' attic up for auction for $10 million, who wants it?

Typo in a student email makes this a great first line for a novel: "I am pregnant and die in July."

I started my semester, the first time doing the class entirely analogue, by telling them that Milton would have hated AI. And in the discussion of Areopagitica, they were like, we get it!

“It was from out the rind of one apple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.”

Nothing like teaching Areopagitica

The blue pages!

'Ideally, time in bibliography is no object, and if a certain task of large dimensions needs doing, it is worth a lifetime.'

I'm going to start citing Bowers whenever I'm asked to produce a timeline for a grant application.

It was already farce the last time honestly (not funny ofc but in the sense Marx meant)

I missed this when it happened -- congratulations! Just read the piece, which is excellent.

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Quick update: the site is back up at its usual URL: shakespearecensus.org

But still in a flattened archival version without full functionality. We're continuing to work on getting the pop-up windows with copy details back up, as well as other functions, even in this temporary version of the site.

Also it’s Twin Peaks day

follow that thread for details and updates

This sucks and I'm hoping to greatly improve even the temporary solution soon.

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Unfortunately details of each copy are not available, but the list of copies is. Working on this... grrr....

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Yes, sorry, we had some kind of malicious attack. We’re working on it. We will have a stopgap site up soon with the copies but perhaps not full search capability. Working on resolving it asap

As a Jewish faculty member at Penn, let me just say: this feels bad. Please don’t call me, if you’re reading this.

in vermont the bands are so intellectual they give conferences instead of concerts?

Fools Rushing where …

This feels like Lincoln had been reading Milton

Helluva deke!

Yup. But I mean, if it gets you a second then it’s a pretty nicely targeted strategy. I suspect the design of it was to help teachers get a lot of students up to a middling level as quickly as possible.

Because you’re trying to write one chapter about an entire discipline

Plus it sets up chapter 4 to be a history of the book which might be a problem

Yeah that’s been written!

Chapter 3 can be history of the “thesis” (argument, statement, etc)

Not bad for the amount of effort!

Not now, disease of kings!

i love how every guy on the us curling team looks like he works in IT