I really hate that little sparkly icon which reminds me of all the human labor that was stolen to create a product that enriches the tech barons while contributing to the environmental destruction of the planet. I absolutely to NOT want to ask my book questions. I’m reading a book precisely because I want to…
I built a model of the two-pronged Starfighter (a really sleek and elegant vehicle that deserved a better name) and the one-engined Draconian fighter. I recall being impressed by the two-hour pilot I knew the series that followed was silly fluff. I was 11, so perhaps at the time I didn’t quite appreciate Erin Grey…
Similar:York Corpus Christi Pageant, Toronto, June 7I’ll be in Toronto next week to observe …AcademiaPics from Thursday's dress rehearsal of Shrek: The Musical. This weekend only! @stage…PersonalGreensburg Holiday ParadePersonalFall 2021 Grades Submitted Mission accomplished.AcademiaDaughter made a Rainbow Loom Marty McFly. Note vest jacket and hover board.PersonalBuilding a ridiculous amount of detail as I create tiles…
Similar:Home Soil (TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 17)The concept was good, and the production…PersonalThoreau's Cellphone ExperimentWhen I teach “Intro to Literary Study,” …AcademiaMe loving my birthday truck, c. 1971. I adored this truck, and spellin…DesignEnjoying some sibling nerdtime with Lego The Hobbit.GamesCaptain Gearheart inspects progress on his #neovictorian #steampunk æther cruiser. Now fea…https://youtu.be/VXz7kspFimM AestheticsSpring 2022…
Similar:Night Terrors (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Four, Episode 17) Trapped crew grows paranoi…Rewatching ST:TNG After discovering t…PersonalI have a daughter who does things. If demon curses and buckets of stage blood are your thi…I have a daughter who does things. If de…Amusing“Thank you for being kind.” —Friday afternoon email from a student who’d been a…
Twelfth-grade reading scores are at historic lows, and college professors, even at elite schools, are increasingly reporting difficulties in getting students to engage with lengthy or complex texts. Perhaps that is to be expected in the era of TikTok and A.I. Some education experts believe that in the near future, even the most sophisticated stories and…
Chimpanzees in Arnhem’s Royal Burgers’ Zoo in the Netherlands had learned zookeepers’ rule that meals wouldn’t be served until all had assembled. But one day, as reported by Time magazine in 2007, two teenage chimps were more interested in staying out to play than coming in to eat. The others had to wait for hours,…
Similar:Overheard: "This is the best show I've ever seen at the Geyer" and "Who IS that girl playi…Gasps from the audience, shouts of “No!”…CultureBlender 2.8 Released. Please leave us alone together for a few days.I’ve been using the beta for months, but…CybercultureThe girl is the Dew Drop Fairy in @laurelballetperformingco The Nutcracker Saturday evenin…PersonalHi, I’m…
More than half of the teens surveyed believe journalists regularly engage in unethical behaviors like making up details or quotes in stories, paying sources, taking visual images out of context or doing favors for advertisers. Less than a third believe reporters correct their errors, confirm facts before reporting them, gather information from multiple sources or…
Pope Leo XIV, who has made peace and unity priorities of his pontificate, emphasized that “the more we are reconciled, the more we Christians can bear credible witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is a proclamation of hope for all” and, in the words of Pope Francis, “a message of peace and universal…
Similar:Nerdy Rainbow Loom CraftingMy wonderfully geeky tween made these Bl…AestheticsJerz and Daughter Teach Scratch (Digital Storytelling Tutorial)In the past I have posted tutorials for …CybercultureShy Preschooler Won't Say Her Lines in "Peter Pan" Rehearsal (Stage Right! Greensburg)Little Maggie isn’t so sure she wants to…DramaPractice, practice, practice. Making many things in #Blender3D. Arranging them to make…
Similar:Feeling Like an Impostor at 49I reminded my Shakespeare students that …AcademiaMemorizer (Memorization Tool)A Midsummer castmate shared a link to th…CybercultureComputers and Writing 2020 Funding Request: SubmittedMy contributions this year are a worksho…AcademiaGoodby big Android… hello little budget iPhone SE 3rd.I just removed from my syllabus template…AcademiaHere's a close look at the scepter leading the procession. #SetonHillGrad…
My classes are generally small enough that I have time to get to know each student’s writing. When a student who confuses “bias” and “biased” in a hand-written response later that day sends me an email later that day that uses “whom” and “betwixt,” I notice. I can’t prove a student is abusing AI, but…
AI is getting better at rote tasks, but it still takes a human to do 97% of typical freelance tasks (according to research published by a company that sells the services of humans who tag material to train LLMs). Last year I went through part of the training process for a job that offered “up…
I can’t stand Pinterest. I hate when Google sends me there, because Pinterest isn’t a source, it’s just a way to collect images from sources. I don’t want to interact with Pinterest, I want the images. For years I used a Chrome plugin called “Unpinterested,” which filters out the Pinterest results. Just now,…
Anyone seen “Hamnet”? I was not too impressed by “Shakespeare in Love,” which perpetuated the biographical fallacy — that the key to unlocking the one, true meaning of a literary work is listing how each detail in a literary work “could represent” some detail in the author’s life, and that once you’ve constructed that list,…
Madeline Cash reflects on her boomer mother’s use of ellipses. When I texted to thank her, she responded, ‘Enjoy . . .’ Why not Enjoy period or Enjoy exclamation point? Did she resent the gift? Are the treats poisoned? There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. ‘OK . . .’ ‘Thanks…
Similar:Fall 2021 Grades Submitted Mission accomplished.AcademiaSports Meant So Much to Me. Why Wouldn’t My Son Play?I heard the boy tell Raffi that all his …CultureMy meme about the distracted boyfriend memeAmusingA Few Good Men at the Pittsburgh Public TheatreFantastic performances, powerful writing…CulturePOV: You are coding the automatic doors on your fantasy neovictorian cruiser personal proj… …
Never again.
Similar:Getting there.Getting there.PersonalTake a moment to appreciate these good COVID-19 statisticsMay 1, my state had the third-highest pe…AwesomeI had a grand time recording this little story about a misunderstood genius who just wants… The Cask of Amotillado (read by Denn…CultureLet's talk about books, old sport.BooksWhen backwards newbie poets write…PersonalCreating textures for background buildings in a…
Similar:Stage Right Nation goes Into the Woods at Saint Vincent Summer Theater. Great job Renata, …Stage Right Nation goes Into the Woods a…PersonalFather David Hudgins RIP | In His Own Words My friend from high school passed away…DramaFirst steps towards reconstructing a 30-year-old simulation. Marking the locations of the …First steps towards reconstructing a 30-…AestheticsWhere…
Similar:I can’t fix this broken world but I guess I did okay using #blender3d to model this wedge-… AestheticsForward is the officers' wardroom. To the right is an airlock. Left leads to the on-call o… AestheticsAlas for You (Godspell, Stage Right)Three weeks ago tonight, I got an email …Drama#PPTPlaytime adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.Top…
Rewatching ST:TNG (Not sure where this review went!) Similar:Trump's reference to "the transcript" of the Helsinki conference… which transcript? Ther…This is why journalism matters: The Atla…UncategorizedBig Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math ClassMy math education predated the widesprea…BusinessWhich State Offers The Best Online Casino With No Deposit Bonus?An in-person casino opened up a few year…UncategorizedMy…
Rewatching ST:TNG (Not sure where this review went!) Similar:Daughter doing a thing. Interviewing the Pittsburgh Dance Council’s Randall Miller for Bur… Academia‘There’s a certain madness to it’ … fans await new chord in John Cage gig with 616 years l…The organ composition is called “As Slow…AestheticsThe disinformation system that Trump unleashed will outlast him. Here’s…
This the sunlight at that time is shown on the map above, when the sun is set on Pitcairn, there’s still around an hour until it rises in Akrotiri and Dhekelia, meanwhile as it’s just after the spring equinox, the sun will have set over the south pole beginning it’s 6 month long night, and therefore setting on British Antarctic Territory.
