The View From Kalamazoo

Ooooh! A Beowulf movie! Never fear, this one actually looks promising (no forks! Swords appear sword-sized – not those overly-theatrical bastard-swords larger than the typical bastard by at least a hand and a half!)…gorgeous, at least.

We’ll see. It doesn’t star Antonio Banderas and was filmed in an appropriate locale…could be a very good signs, indeed.

(I admit I’m excited. I suppose this is another sign that I should have gone into Anglo-Saxon lit, since I was, and remain, so very fond of the stuff. Clearly I’ve never been very good at taking hints…)

Yes, I promised pictures of ceramics. No, clearly I have not yet posted any. Yes, I will do so. Sheesh – nags!

Other pictures I have, however, since Bri already put them up and gave them a permanent link. [Note: Emma insisted on my french braiding her hair. No, I didn’t realize, immediately, that plus the hat would make her appear not as a child with ears, but as a jug with large handles. Yes, she inherited them from me. No, she doesn’t hold this against me – yet.]

Pictures of Emma and Colin

The last crusade of the Templars: The knights want a Papal apology nearly 700 years after they were disbanded and hounded into exile

The SCOTS project (Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech) has opened up an internet search facility (article).

Really nifty site! Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, and Book Designers

France trumpets discovery of Gallic war trophies Another article, with photo.

I have made no secret of my deep dislike of PowerPoint – particularly the poor presentations of pap that masquerade for well-done and informative PowerPoint presentations in countless painful meeting here that poor clerical serfs like me are forced to attend and suffer through.

And at this point in the year I think we all need a good chuckle.

So I share with you: If Shakespeare had PowerPoint [as found at the delightful mirabilis.ca