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:Snow White: The Musical Opens Fridayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIRCoHoN…AestheticsProud of My JournosI saw several heads that I recognized, b…AcademiaI made some progress.PersonalMore #Blender3D practice. Additional details for a steampunk control panel. Just because.AestheticsA day may come when the strength of the girl fails and she must make more than one trip to…PersonalThe Daughter's 21st Birthday Current_Events
Similar:Me as a highshool photo-bomber, I presume at the cast party for The Music Man.DramaAgain with the @shu.pippinPersonalThe dress we ordered for the “girl next door” role in The Fantasticks… vs the dress that…AestheticsContagion (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 11)Picard faces aggressive Romulans and an …DesignMerry Christmas 2022.PersonalI may or may not make a zapping…
Similar:My college writing students are out making short videos responding to a prompt.While my students are out of the room ma…AcademiaOne of my students is demonstrating the perceived value of brand-name vs no-name products…. PersonalAnother day, another 10 square centimeters of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blende…AestheticsHearing "Godzilla on My Mind" author Wiliam TsutsuiPersonalCelebration of Writing –…
Books / Culture / Education / Humanities / Literacy / Literature / TechnologyTwelfth-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:I really enjoyed powering through Wilson’s Century Cycle during winter term.AwesomeWe love us some Sherlock any way we can get it.PersonalThe daughter joined the cast of this show a few days ago. As Safie, she sings a folk song …She says she got the email while at a ca…CultureMore #blender3d #steampunk #design. #blender3dart #aesthetics The…
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:My wife Leigh will direct the small-cast drama "Full Bloom" Aug 30-Sep 2My wife Leigh received a Pennsylvania Co…ArtAfter lights out, the girl is knitting.PersonalChallenge Accepted.PersonalGame night at our local library.GamesHeadphones, Croutons and RhetoricME (with crouton tongs in one hand and s…CultureOpening Night: New "The Little Mermaid"At night, instead of getting ready for b…Current_Events
Similar:The Forsaken (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 17) Lwaxana Troi and the station c…Rewatching ST:DS9 Bashir is hosting t…CultureIn a literature class, the author's words matter more than the author's life and times, or… Updating the graphic for a resource …AcademiaThoreau's Cellphone ExperimentWhen I teach “Intro to Literary Study,” …AcademiaI just thought of a…
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:My project starts to get clunky while managing 1000 NPCs but I think if I split them up in…My project starts to get clunky while ma…AestheticsMy Anti-Linkbait Pledge: Cynical Overhyping vs. Simply Being OnlineWhen I find something interesting that a…CultureThe third Google hit for " #steampunk control panel" is a #blender3d image I cre…PersonalRandom gauge…
Never again.
Similar:Spring 2025 Final Grades Submitted!AcademiaSpring 2023 Midterm Grades: Submitted!PersonalYork Corpus Christi Pageant, Toronto, June 7I’ll be in Toronto next week to observe …AcademiaBeing a deaf lipreader during a pandemic means increased social anxietyEven social events are a minefield. The …AcademiaOh the Overthinks You Can Overthink: Horton the Elephant, the Wickersham Brothers, and Mas…Yesterday, I performed…
Similar:Opens Wednesday.PersonalSports Meant So Much to Me. Why Wouldn’t My Son Play?I heard the boy tell Raffi that all his …CultureThe Bremen Town Musicians (WAOB Audio Theatre) My daughter plays the narrator, my…HumanitiesFamily ( #StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Four, Episode 2) Picard Retreats to Family Vineyar…Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….DramaThe Duolingo owl is proud…
Similar:What, exactly, am I looking at here? I’m so confused.What, exactly, am I looking at here? I’m…PersonalQuoth the ramen, "Eat some more!"PersonalCarolyn as Maria in West Side StoryPersonalI didn't exactly set out to achieve this goal, but it's not hard to do the minimum to keep…EducationI voice the role of Electron Jones in this audio…
Rewatching ST:TNG (Not sure where this review went!) Similar:The Last Outpost (ST:TNG Rewatch. Season 1, Episode 4) Riker shouts from a cliff while Fer…Rewatching ST:TNG after about a 20-year …CultureWho Watches the Watchers (ST:TNG Season Three Episode 4) Rationalist, talky mythbustingRewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….EthicsI'm really enjoying seeing how my students are responding to…
Rewatching ST:TNG (Not sure where this review went!) Similar:Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back togetherI tell this old newsroom tale to my stud…CultureTaking Harassment Seriously Requires Serious DistinctionsEditor and columnist Jonah Goldberg ques…CultureChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web Think of ChatGPT as a blurry jpeg…CybercultureAnnoyed and Bored by Lazy Anachronisms in The…
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.
Prince Andrew has lost all of his royal titles, including “Prince,” in an unprecedented move by King Charles He will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and has been ordered to surrender his lease at Royal Lodge The move comes amid renewed scrutiny of Prince Andrew’s ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein…
