The dress we ordered for the “girl next door” role in The Fantasticks… vs the dress that we received!

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Yellow Journalism Did Not Cause the Spanish-American War (Role of Sensationalized Headlines Often Exaggerated)

When a correspondent sent to Cuba to cover a possible war telegraphed that there would be no war and he wanted to come home, Newspaper mogul Willam Randolph Hearst is said to have replied, “Please remain. You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.”   It’s a story I remember learning in middle school.  …

Thank you, male ballet dancers everywhere, for making moments like this possible.

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What is Technical Writing?

I noticed an uptick in traffic to an older page, “Technical Writing: What Is It?” So I touched it up and created a new graphic. Similar:Waiting for a talk on preserving artifacts from NASA’s Apollo programWhy Even Try if You Have A.I.? Now that machines can think for us, we have to choose wheth…'Most Transparent’…

Unplugging for a Few Hours at Spruce Flats Bog

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Steampunk Ex Machina

In the steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my kids, the characters would embark on Earthbound adventures or welcome a visitor arriving via “the gondola.” Serving the same function as the transporter or shuttlecraft in Star Trek, it could conveniently break down when I needed the characters to be isolated, and it could miraculously…

Greebles make me happy.

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That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

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Unity3D Maze Game Tutorial

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‘Twelfth Night’ is a Shakespearean hoot, and Prime Stage actors Carolyn Jerz, Malcolm MacKenzie, and Dana Babal have their hootin’ duds on. (photo courtesy of Prime Stage Theatre)

Why is Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night enjoying a new wave of popularity? Perhaps real life has become so bizarre that no contemporary comedy can match it, so we have to go back 417 years to find one. Anyhow, the play has been turning up on schedules regularly, and now Pittsburgh’s Prime Stage Theatre is doing Twelfth Night. This comedy…

Industriousness. Self-improvement. Thrift. And orange slime.

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