Similar:Academic robe, Is this the year I finally send you out to be cleaned? Nah, Febreeze is goo…PersonalT-Shirts for student journalists who recently leveled up to “staff writer”(with bear signe…PersonalI love a little courtyard. I think I’ve made enough #blender3d buildings for now. On to th…PersonalSome new locations for my #neovictorian #steampunk personal project. Created…
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Another corner building. Designed and textured. Needs an interior. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:I just discovered what will grind up a significant portion of my free time over the break.So Khan Academy now has a grammar unit. …PersonalResearch Poetry (communicating research results and expressing their significance through …For an article on communicating research…AcademiaSeize the…
What have my students learned about creative nonfiction writing? During class they are collaborating on a Google Doc that’s coming together very nicely before our eyes. Similar:I'm Gradually Losing My Hearing. (It’s Part of Aging.)During a department meeting today, I not…AcademiaGoogle responds to streaming report with shruggie GIFThe Daily Dot proceeded to shrug the GIF…AmusingMelissa…
Two years after the release of ChatGPT, it may not be surprising that creative work is used without permission to power AI products. Yet the notion remains disturbing to many artists and professionals who feel that their craft and livelihoods are threatened by programs. Transparency is generally low: Tech companies tend not to advertise whose…
I both like and hate that Canvas tracks the number of unmarked assignments that await me. (This number was 230 this weekend.) If marking papers was all I needed to do, this number would be much lower. Similar:Hey there, chaotic world in academia and beyond, could you settle down just a bit so I can…AcademiaSetting…
The complex geometry on this wedge building took me all weekend. The interior walls still need work. And from this angle, those roof tiles look too big. Similar:My crazy Friday night involved tweaking the graphic for an #MLAstyle instructional web pag…AcademiaThe Article is Dead. Long Live the ArticleTake the background paragraph. It ill-se…CultureShort-range #neovictorian excursion…
My older siblings say they remember our mother sitting them down to watch a new TV show called Sesame Street. A running gag was that Big Bird’s friend, the huge, gentle wooly-mammoth-like Snuffleupagus somehow always disappeared before anyone else on Sesame Street could see him, leading the adults on the show to believe “Snuffy” was…
I played hooky to go see Wild Robot this afternoon, so I went back to the office to mark more papers. Plenty more to go, but I put a good dent in things. The story and characters of Wild Robot were not as engaging as those of Wall-E, and the problem of “how do predators…
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I first started teaching with this handout in 1999 and posted it on my blog in 2000. Like the Ship of Theseus, I’ve made gradual changes so it’s not really the same document, but just now I spotted hilariously out of date references to bringing along transparencies with you as a backup. Similar:That's my daughter…
First they came… #kristallnacht @nccheshu Similar:Slicing up a massively detailed trimsheet to simulate reflections and geometry for four va…PersonalI just bought Diamond City.GamesOn the way to the theater for the show! Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd.PersonalFULL BLOOM at Latrobe’s Olde Main, Aug 30-Sep 2.CultureYeah natural born creative genius is a cool myth, but have you…
Back in 2003, shortly after I moved with my wife and two young children to take my current job, I was eager to make new friends and rebuild my social network. One evening, my wife agreed to watch the kids so I could drop by the local branch of a national service organization in which…
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. @thepublicpgh Similar:Support the arts in your community! #augustwilson #radiogolfSupport the arts in your community! #aug…CultureThe worst-case scenario Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police office…This article focuses on a police officer…CultureDistributing Candy at Holiday ParadeCurrent_EventsGet ready for Generation ZStudents continue to change……
[A] popular type of generative AI model can provide turn-by-turn driving directions in New York City with near-perfect accuracy — without having formed an accurate internal map of the city. Despite the model’s uncanny ability to navigate effectively, when the researchers closed some streets and added detours, its performance plummeted. When they dug deeper, the researchers…
I was perhaps a bit more conversational and chipper than usual during class today. A grinning student asked what I was drinking. (It really is just iced tea.) Similar:Imagine all the people. Just reading their damned syllabus.These are not the rhetorical choices I w…AcademiaThou shalt not commit logical fallacies Thou shalt not commit logical fallaci…AmusingWanted…
I create five color variations of each #blender3d building I #design, and each of those has closeup, high, mid, and low resolution variations. It’s tedious but enjoyable. Kinda like knitting. #medievalyork #mysteryplay #aesthetics Similar:A 40sq cm section of a #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dartAestheticsReady to teach another set of students what research is (and what…
Journalism is not a crime. It’s not a crime if it offends the powerful. It’s not a crime if it doesn’t offend them enough to suit you. Yes, journalists make mistakes. Yes, you should take a break from doomscrolling for your mental health. But the First Amendment freedom of the press is crucial to democracy.…
I just caught myself thinking, “This doesn’t suck.” #medievalyork #mysteryplay #blender3d #design #aesthetics Similar:How are you holding up? What difficult choices have you made? How can we all help each oth…Carolyn and were recently cast in a hist…CultureWorld Trade Center Literary and Cultural Reflections (first posted September 11, 2001) Not knowing what else to do,…
As part of an ongoing bid to get his hands on Vantablack, the super dark, light-absorbing material to which Anish Kapoor controversially has the exclusive license, artist Stuart Semple has legally changed his name to… Anish Kapoor. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,” Semple told me. “I like the idea of being able to try a name…