Most of my students use MS-Word, but maybe a third use Google Docs (that’s a big increase lately) and a handful (but a bigger handful) use Pages. Today during a writing conference, a freshman comp student blinked in confusion when I asked her to “take me to your word processor.” I tried again. “Open up…
On LinkedIn each year author Dan Schawbel writes a list of workplace trends to watch for in the coming year. This time around Schawbel makes this prediction about degrees in subjects like literature, philosophy and history: “AI will automate technical skills and drive the demand for soft skills like creativity, communication and empathy. While there’s been such a…
Similar:I baked about 12 million vertices of steampunk control panel geometry into a flat plane wi…PersonalI wish I could credit the designer. This is brilliant.PersonalEclipse!PersonalEncounter at Farpoint (Season 1, Episode 1: ST:TNG Rewatch) Picard gathers his crew, hates…Rewatching ST:TNG after almost 20 years….CultureLook how the box leads your eye down to the car, then the…
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.
Similar:Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. –Mr Dooley on the function of journali…“Comfort the afflicted and afflict the c…CultureOut for a walk and saw this. I hope you are having a nice day.Out for a walk and saw this. I hope you …AestheticsSparkle unicorn "Winston" lends ethos to a presentation on moral agency on…
Professional disinformation isn’t spread by the account you disagree with — quite the opposite. Effective disinformation is embedded in an account you agree with.
My math education predated the widespread use of graphing calculators. I remember writing my own BASIC programs to graph simple functions, but that was in a summer school programming class during middle school, not part of my high school curriculum. I’m amazed these old calculators cost this much. Bulky and black, with large, colorful push…
Similar:Paradise Blue (so glad to be seeing more live theater lately)PersonalSorry, not sorry. I don't want such friends. Back in 2003, shortly after I moved …CultureThis weekend! GeyerPAC.comPersonalI'm not showing you my email inbox, or my laundry pile, or the state of my soul. Just…PersonalMade it to the closing performance @quantumtheatreDramaThe other day I did…
Similar:The Physics Behind Traffic JamsIn between today’s various events, I das…CultureUnmarked assignments. As more keeps coming in, can I reduce that number each day, without …Personal45m into a game against a player ranked 400pts higher than him. In a frilly shirt for the …CultureMy son showed me #PacificRim.My son showed me #PacificRim. Liked the …CybercultureBuilding…
Similar:Once On This Island (next weekend)PersonalIs this stripe appearing or disappearing? FULL BLOOM (Aug 30 to Sep 2)PersonalThe daughter looks stunning in pink. AestheticsForgotten closet box: powder blue summer suit with a crisp 1990 $10 bill in the pocket and…The chunky laptop seems to boot and the …DesignAdded multiple swappable upper storeys. Next I will…
Citing student objections to offensive content, Point Park University canceled its production of The Adding Machine: The Musical, which was scheduled to run Dec 6-15. The PPU Globe reports that during an emotional “town hall” meeting that included the cast and crew and more than enough members of the public to fill the Highmark Theater,…
Similar:Another sold-out Midsummer Thursday night. PersonalFor God's sake John, sit down!CultureLovely #greebles give attractive details to the the flat surfaces of this little bot (from…AestheticsThis winter I changed my weekday alarm tone to chirping birds. This winter I changed my weekday ala…AestheticsI can’t fix this broken world but I guess I did okay using #blender3d to…
Similar:The coronavirus is today just as contagious and just as serious as it was when we were all…CultureMy meeting was cancelled, so I spent the morning assembling a cabinet for a Little Free Li…AcademiaThe chief engineer does not know where the floating lamps are coming from, but he looks gr…AestheticsOn set as Betsy and Philip…
Similar:How to Use the Feynman Technique to Identify PseudoscienceSimon Oxenham quotes physicist Richard F…CultureMe waiting for students to drop by during office hours. AcademiaMy wife reports: “There was one smart aleck walking along the street who exclaimed: “Look,…Personal'Thought Leader’ gives talk that will inspire your thoughtsSaving this for the next time I assign a…AmusingI'm down…
Similar:The girl asked me to read R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) to her. #quarantine #partylik…BooksCarolyn as Cosette in the wedding scene in Les Miz. #feelsPersonalReady to teach another set of students what research is (and what it isn’t).Academia"Shakespeare in Love" with the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra and Stage Right!When I teach Shakespeare, I will from ti…CultureThat time…
Sitting in a downtown sub shop. A half dozen 40yo dudes — boots & jeans & beards & tattoos — pile in, trash-talking each other. “I don’t wanna sit next to *that* retard!” says a guy in a knit cap. “You gotta pick your ‘tards!” I take a deep breath. Almost immediately, the dude with…
In November 1999, I was blogging about John’s Book Pages (by a CS grad student who had recently read Gene Wolfe and Anthony Bourdain, among many others) What camomile tea has in common with the attack squadron over Skylon 4 (rec.humor newsgroup reference to a disastrous “tandem story” assignment) “Nimoy is, to say the least,…
Corridors in science-fiction movies. I love them. I wasted too much of my childhood and youth imitating and developing the superb production sketches of Ron Cobb, Syd Mead, Ralph McQuarrie and many others. I walked round Elstree studios collecting precious vacuum-formed sections of cloud-city corridor from The Empire Strikes Back, some months after principal photography stopped.…
Similar:Checkmate. Crushed again.GamesAdding detail to a #steampunk control panel workstation. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #b…AestheticsPrepping for the “Celebration of Scholarship and Service” #york2025 #medievaldrama #mediev…PersonalTWEEN GIRL: "What's a tribble?"TWEEN GIRL: “What’s a tribble?” MY GE…PersonalOnce on This Island (Stage Right! Greensburg; May 11 & 12 Promo Video)The girl plays Ti Moune in “Once on This…CultureDesk trays,…
These people do important, amazing work. While shiny, digitally mastered vinyl releases pop up in big box stores everywhere, the real musical wealth lies in the past—in thousands upon thousands of LPs, 45s, 78s—relics of “the only consumer playback format we have that’s fully analog and fully lossless,” says vinyl mastering engineer Adam Gonsalves. Few institutions…