Zoë Lance.

  • A Wild World of Words: “Invictus”

    A Wild World of Words: “Invictus”

    Out of the night that covers me,       Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be       For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance       I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance       My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and…

  • Link Party: 12/15-12/19

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. The Académie française says to knock it off with the LOLs. 2. One of my favorite tech writers keeps getting Amazon emails that aren’t for him. 3. The best essay I read about the ramifications of the Sony hack. 4. There’s a real life Newman running around in…

  • Culture Connoisseur: Dick Blick Art Materials

    I’ve recently discovered the most magical place on Earth, and it’s not Disneyland. It’s called Dick Blick Art Materials. Dick Blick is a group of art stores that stocks supplies at discounted prices. It has a much better selection than Michaels, and is not pretentious in the slightest — I am not an artist, but the staff makes me…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Fall 2014

    I’m finishing a final draft of my second capstone essay this week (more on that later) but my three academic classes for fall quarter are finally over! In all three years and a quarter of college, fall 2014 was the toughest, busiest and most stressful academic terms I’ve had. But despite all of the meltdowns and existential crises, the…

  • Link Party: 12/8-12/12

    Remember last week when I said I’d be back to regularly scheduled programming? I unintentionally lied. Now that finals are over (and most of my academic commitments will be relieved by Sunday), things will be relatively back to normal on Monday. I mostly promise. Here’s what I read this week: 1. The front page of New York’s first…

  • Gold Star for the Internet: The Hemingwrite

    I. want. this. so. badly. I don’t remember where I first came across the Hemingwrite (maybe a Verge article many eons ago), but an email popped up in my inbox this morning about a pre-sale (I love future Zoë when her brain is turned on.) Hemingwrite is a digital typewriter that saves all of your work…

  • Link Party: 12/1-12/5

      Sorry for the lack of blog posts this week — will be back to regularly scheduled programming on Monday. Here’s what I read this week: 1. The numbers behind department store holiday windows. 2. There’s a website that is devoted to proving the Beatles never existed. The Internet is an incredible place. 3. I have…

  • A Wild World of Words: The Sheaves

    Where long the shadows of the wind had rolled Green wheat was yielding to the change assigned; And as my some vast magic undivined The world was turning slowly to gold. Like nothing that was ever bought or sold It waited there, the body and the mind; And with a mighty meaning of a kind…

  • Link Party: 11/24-11/28

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. What happens to English when you get rid of the letter E. 2. A profile on The Strand, a bookstore in New York I’m dying to go to. 3. A beautiful essay on Julia Child, food and love. 4. A conversation on lightsaber construction in the teaser for…

  • Think Tank: What I’m Thankful For

    The world, in all of its beauty and sheer size, is such a mess these days. But I think in light of tragedy and incredible sadness, it is really important to remember that we can all still find a lot to be thankful for — and not just on Thanksgiving. And in remembering what we’re thankful for,…