Daily Archives: Sunday: January 22, 2006

Not Quite Caught Up

Posted on Sunday: January 22, 2006 by Michael Hendry

I spoke wrote posted too soon. The Ioci Antiqui page is again behind, though by only one day, since I have deleted the epigram of Martial that I’d already used for November 23rd. I’ll try to catch up tomorrow.

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Caught Up

Posted on Sunday: January 22, 2006 by Michael Hendry

As promised, January’s Ioci Antiqui are now caught up through tomorrow (Monday), with five new jokes for the 19th through the 23rd, of which one or two are actually funny — opinions may differ as to which one or two. … Continue reading →

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Metablogging Puzzle

Posted on Sunday: January 22, 2006 by Michael Hendry

For the last month or more, whenever I check my weblog statistics to see what countries my readers represent, I have gotten a list much like today’s: in order from 1 to 25, USA, unknown, EU, Iceland, UK, Canada, Australia, … Continue reading →

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Testing

Posted on Sunday: January 22, 2006 by Michael Hendry

Time for some feedback. Does the following text come out with long marks on some of the vowels, or garbage in place of the vowels, or what? Please reply in the comments, and include which operating system and browser you … Continue reading →

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A Founding Father of the Oral Latin Movement?

Posted on Sunday: January 22, 2006 by Michael Hendry

The pseudonymous ‘Michael Blowhard’ of 2Blowhards was recommending Maupassant the week before last. Inspired by his enthusiasm, I checked out a collection of short stories, one of which turned out to be very pertinent to (of all things) Latin teaching … Continue reading →

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More Books

Posted on Sunday: January 22, 2006 by Michael Hendry

I have added quite a few books to my Books for Sale pages, mostly Classical, Mediaeval, and Renaissance, but with a few in other categories. Featured authors: Alan of Lille (3 titles), Poliziano, Clausewitz, Diogenes of Oenoanda, Montesquieu (2 each), … Continue reading →

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Ioci Antiqui

Posted on Sunday: January 22, 2006 by Michael Hendry

Sorry about the missed days: I’ve been under the weather and bogged down in end-of-semester grading. I will post five more ancient jokes by midnight tonight to make up the deficit. These will be in the usual PDF file. At … Continue reading →

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