Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

I just realized that what I wrote in the student accessible version today about Clash of the Titans may already qualify as the rabid ranting of a fan, except that this is not comics or some fantasy novel, but classic Greek mythology.

I guess if there is something to feel that strongly about, it should be the classics right, just like the fans of Jane Austen novels.

These words have survived for decades and scores if not centuries, and they should not be tweaked.

Sure we have a modernization of a Shakespeare play every once in a while, but it still treats the source material reverently.

If they were to do that with the Greek gods, then they would be the modern counterparts of CEOs, televangelists and celebrities today, who, for all their money and power and influence, still act human.

Allowing for the bastardization of old world literature in the first place is what has Bram Stoker turning in his grave right now.

So much for the undead and the powers of darkness being feared anymore; it is now dreamed of with wistful sighs.

But anyway, back to the writings of bygone eras, done right, it gives us a peek at the conventions of the time.

Maybe it would be cool to have something like Shakespeare in Love, but starring one of the writers of the Greek plays, like Homer.

That would also take the name back from being only associated by the younger generation with that bumbler from The Simpsons.

I remember when Troy came out (which was completely devoid of any Greek god appearance) there were sniggers in the classroom when the teachers discussed who wrote it and the Odyssey.

Now the Iliad and the Odyssey would be a perfect example of how to show the gods of the old times literally playing chess with the lives of men.

Damn, I feel that I should reserve the above writing for the student accessible version, but right now, I do not feel like doing the students that kind of favor that they most likely will not appreciate.

Besides, with tomorrow being a holiday and me being off campus until Saturday, when will that be posted?

Then that gives me the additional worry of looking for something else to write about for today, such as the unpredictability of employees when left to their own, instead of working together like they show when the boss is around.

Sadly, for that topic right now I do not want to go much further than just mentioning it like I did.

It really does seem like I will be trading in my kid gloves for real ones more and more, where I train actual workers instead of those being forced by their parents to get a not-so-suitable degree before being told to get a job.

Session 3035 knows this is just partly rambling, but not all writing has to be pretty or funny. Class dismissed.