Keeping it classy. My 20yo son encounters the fruit-eating scene from the 1996 point-and-click adventure game “The Neverhood”

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Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. The first of (far too) many “trapped on the holodeck” episodes. Exhausted while preparing for a high-stakes diplomatic ritual, Picard takes a break in a virtual-reality simulation of a 1940s detective novel. I remembered enjoying Brent Spiner’s portrayal of Data adapting to the noir setting,…

I went down fighting.

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My parents doing their daily brain treasers in a coffee shop.

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Scratch 3.0 beta is available. Try out the text-to-speech blocks!

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Merry Christmas 2018

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A Ferengi set on revenge tricks Picard into lowering the Enterprise’s shields and unceremoniously beams him into space.

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Getting in the Christmas spirit.

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Dennis G. Jerz | Associate Professor of English -- New Media Journalism, Seton Hill University | jerz.setonhill.edu

Do you get your news mostly from social media? I check NPR, Drudge, and news.google.com.

Do you have a regular news-consumption routine? Facebook doesn’t want you to leave Facebook, so it’s algorithm favors posts that will keep you on Facebook, rather than links that will send you elsewhere. I listen to a 5-minute podcast from NPR News Now about once a day, usually while I am doing my morning exercises.…

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When she’s grown and flown, I will miss the thick deposit of glitter in my back seat.

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Until next term, I have zero more unmarked assignments. #fistpump

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