To add a gallery of images using the built-in WordPress gallery option, start a post from your Dashboard view as usual. From the right-hand “Format” widget, choose “Gallery” as the format and then use the “Add Media” button on top … Continue reading
Daily Archives: September 15, 2013
This tutorial is on posting a gallery of images using the jQuery Slideshow plugin. From your Dashboard view, select the “Slideshows” link from the left-hand toolbar. Click on “Add new”. Choose a unique name for your slideshow in the … Continue reading
Gregor’s image in my head: Okay, maybe he doesn’t look that angry or could stand upright like that with his little legs. But I didn’t feel like searching up a picture of a real giant cockroach though because I don’t … Continue reading
This post is on adding an image from your Instagram feed. Start a post like normal. Go to Instagram. Choose the photo you wish to post. Click on it. Copy the URL (ignoring the pound sign). Special note: your feed … Continue reading
I read Metamorphosis on my Kindle and somehow managed to overlook the first page which explicitly mentioned that Gregor had turned into a cockroach. Reading the story I was kept in suspense trying to figure out what was going on, and the … Continue reading
When I read the scene when Gregor’s father threw the apple at him, one distinct thing came to mind. When I was little, I used to to play little league baseball and have catches with my dad. In many movies … Continue reading
When we were first assigned the reading of Kafka’s Metamorphosis I truly did not know what to expect. But I certainly wasn’t expecting to read about a man who inexplicably woke up one morning to find himself inhabiting the form … Continue reading
How can one react with a calm facial expression after reading The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka? Initially, I thought, this is weird. Beyond weird. More like bizarre? And in fact, I thought it was quite pointless. So, my facial expression looked a little like … Continue reading
I loved the ending to Metamorphosis. It looked like a really colorful and serene scene filled with never ending happiness. I pictured it in the same manner as this painting by Georges-Pierre Seurat The image gives off an melancholy day, … Continue reading
Franz Kafka did not like humanity. He viewed our day-to-day lives (or at least the lives of people in the 1920’s) as dismally trivial. To be fair, living in Czechoslovakia in the early nineteenth century was probably no picnic. But … Continue reading