We read a section of Plutarch’s Life of Caesar in class today where he mentions that “before [Caesar] had any public employment, he was in debt thirteen hundred talents,” and the usual question came up: “How much is that?” A good question, indeed. And one to which, I said, there was no easy answer. Suffice it to say that it … 

Ok, ok. Enough stalling. The site’s been hiding behind “under construction” plywood walls for a rather long time while I’ve been trying to get up to speed with more modern web page design techniques. Figuring that, at the present rate, I’ll still be getting up to speed months from now, I’m locking my perfectionistic streak up in a little box …