Peak Performance (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season Two, Episode 21) Riker and his misfit pals challenge Picard to the whackiest wargames ever!
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. As part of Starfleet’s response to the Borg threat, Riker refits an 8o-year-old derelict to face the Enterprise in a wargame. Overseeing the simulation is Kolrami, a waddling oddity who takes a disliking to Riker and crushes him in a social game. Pulaski goads Data into challenging Kolrami to…
Musician uses computer algorithm to compose every melody possible in C, releases them for free online to fight copyright trolls
A lawyer and hobbyist musician collaborated with a computer programmer to generate every possible 12-note melody in the key of C. The final compilation includes 68.7 billion melodic combinations, which the pair uploaded to the Internet Archive through a Create Commons Zero license, meaning they reserve no rights of ownership to any of them.…
Brother Stuck in the Bathroom
The girl posted this story on Instagram while I was at work.
Valentines for Journalists
Mark S. Luckie, Medium
Emily Dickinson Fun Page #literature #amusing #dashes
Emily Dickinson Fun Page #literature #amusing #dashes
Richard Halloran / Owns Home Computer.
“Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer.”
Me: Carolyn, are you ok? Carolyn:Just reminding myself that I am a gift.
The Dauphin (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 10)
A pretty 16yo destined to bring peace to a war-torn planet falls for Wesley, but 1) her governess disapproves and 2) well… Wesley. The puppy-love story is cringe-worthily wholesome (influenced by the long dark adorable shadow of “The Wonder Years”), but still enjoyable.
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
First runner-up for the girl’s Halloween 2019 costume.
Man enough to sew my own computer bag. Insecure enough to seek validation on social media for doing so.
Let’s conſider ſome ſurpriſing old type: “Did you ever hear ſuch a wind-ſucker, as this?”
I ſhall always treaſure the pleaſant ſurpriſe of ſeeing the “long s” while reading Epicoene, by Ben Jonſon.
The dress we ordered for the “girl next door” role in The Fantasticks… vs the dress that we received!
You, Too, Can Have a Viral Tweet Like Mine: Demystifying Poetic Meter
Saving for the next time I teach “Intro to English Study.” It’s all well and good to sing “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” to the tune of “Hallelujah,” but why can’t you do it the other way around? For that matter, why does it work only when you limit yourself to the first two lines…
Elementary, Dear Data (TNG Rewatch: Season 2, Episode 3) When a holodeck bet spawns a fictional threat, that’s a-cosplay
Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. LaForge works on his model ship in main engineering (?) and invites Data to enjoy a Sherlock Holmes holodeck adventure. Sounds fun, but a slow start, with low stakes. We can forgive the director for spending a lot of time showing the characters reacting to…
Me (glares in iambic pentameter)
Me: I need to post the opening lecture for my online Shakespeare class. Also me: I should compose it in blank verse. Me (glares in iambic pentameter): Also me: O for a Canvas of fire, to surpass The farthest distance of instruction. SHU tech is cool, but can a Macbook hold A seminar discussion? Can…
Your Brain on Shakespeare
How do you spend your last week of summer break?
Solitaire Chess
Spent a relaxing evening in playing solitaire chess puzzles with the boy.
Practicing my Unity3D design skills. Forgot to turn on gravity.
I’m brushing up on my Unity3D skills, and created this simple hedge maze game. When I decided to let the player shoot books instead of bullets, I turned on the physics (so the books bounce and roll), but I forgot to tick the “use gravity” checkbox, so they float. (Music: “Dreaming of Flying” by Celestial…