Similar:After you finish your brass-polishing shift, join me at the Gear and Heart to swap stories…AestheticsWhile searching my bag for a cable, I found an unexpected wealth of food-substitute items.AmusingPerspective | After a stunning news conference, there’s a newly crucial job for the Americ… I have always taken a neutral stan…CulturePracticing with materials and geometry.…
Similar:More #blender3d #steampunk goodness. #design #aesthetics #blender3dart AestheticsCreating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can…Creating textures for background buildin…AestheticsWide-angle view of a villain’s secret lair. #blender3dAestheticsSeriously, clouds? Now?PersonalShy Preschooler Won't Say Her Lines in "Peter Pan" Rehearsal (Stage Right! Greensburg)Little Maggie isn’t so sure she wants to…DramaThe first officer's office…
Similar:Grandpa Joe's Candy Store.Sugar rush at Grandpa Joe’s Candy Store….AestheticsIn August, 2000 I was blogging about poetry, presidential wordplay, home-schooling, online…In August 2000, I was blogging about …CybercultureMy brother drove my mother in to see Carolyn in tonight’s opening night Kinetic Theatre pr…PersonalRelics (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 4) When a huge hollow sphere…
The credit at 0:30 should read “Carolyn Jerz.” (She’s used to people spelling it “Caroline”.) Similar:“People are much more frightened than they are bigoted,” making his economic message reson…No actor says “My character does this an…BusinessBottled Authors: the predigital dream of the audiobookThere was no way to preserve sounds befo…AcademiaThe Xplor Store: The Forgotten Carnegie…
In a final reflection video for a freshman writing class, a student gave a personal shout-out to me and to every classmate over a moody guitar soundtrack, and now apparently I have something in my eye.
Similar:The Missing Will, by Agatha Christie (WAOB Audio Theatre)I had a great time playing Hastings in t…CultureThe reception line begins. Grad2018PersonalLeveling up my skills in #blender3D. Using invisible shapes to cut holes …DesignI can’t fix this broken world but I guess I did okay using #blender3d to model this wedge-… AestheticsI am not in the…
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. While I wouldn’t say this was a strong episode, of the first season episodes I’ve rewatched, it’s the first that really felt like the Star Trek: The Next Generation I grew to love. The young director Rob Bowman went on to direct about 12 more episodes. The arrogant Starfleet…
Similar:Crochet octopus for the win! Crazy costume for #pptplaytime Boougie Gentleman (adaptation …PersonalI pulled out a shelf on my teaching station and was greeted by this lovingly arrayed arsen…PersonalElmo? Yes, I do mind. I learned far more from Bert.Like plenty of people my age, I grew up …AestheticsI am a dog and I am a…
Rewatching ST:TNG after about a 20-year break. This odd episode introduced the Ferengi, a parody of the capitalist patriarchy. I only remember bits and pieces of this episode, possibly because the pieces really don’t fit together very well. The long opening sequence gives us a good look at how the bridge crew deals with an…
It takes some visits from three scary spirits on Christmas Eve, who lead him through his Past, Present and Future, to convince him to mend his ways. Scrooge recognizes his faults and greets Christmas morning with a cheerful “Happy Christmas” before spending the day reconnecting and sharing love with those who mean the most to…
Similar:The Scarlet Letter (Prime Stage)PersonalNerd Break! Listening To: Wilhelm Scream / Castle Thunder / Amen Break (While Watching Lig…In order to provide some context for a b…AestheticsKinetic Theatre's "Hound of the Baskervilles" was hilarious. Kinetic Theatre’s production was ful…BooksAs Twinkle Twinkle is to Suzuki musicians, so is a wooden shipping crate to CGI modelers. …https://youtu.be/diQF9buONqY I…
Rewatching TNG after almost 20 years. (Yes, I know the show is older than that.) When the show first aired in 1987, I was living in an apartment-style dorm. When this episode first aired, the guy who owned the TV in our common room was flipping back and forth between it and a sporting event.…
It seems YouTube will soon discontinue the text-based “annotation” feature that made interactive videos like this possible. Similar:Open Source College Math BookOne day last year, David Lippman got an …AcademiaShakespeare's Globe Theatre, Minecraft Stylehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti…Aesthetics6 Problems with our School SystemI spend a lot of time re-educating my st…AcademiaThe ‘Little Free Library’ arrives in the D.C. areaThe…
With a large ensemble, we saw many scenes of one person infecting another, which got predictable after a while. Even after they learned the intoxication spreads through perspiration, nobody thinks to put on rubber gloves.
I admit, Data’s interrupted “There was a young lady from Venus” limerick made me laugh, but what sold the scene for me was Data asking Worf, “Did I say something wrong?” and Worf huffing, “I don’t understand their humor either.”
Because this show has so many short two-person scenes, I like to think of this episode as TNG’s versions of the ballroom sketches on the old Muppet Show. (Closeup on chandelier; medium shot of couples dancing; cut to a nondescript couple of muppets; there’s a setup and a cheesy punchline; cut to another couple, repeat.)
Similar:Desk trays, with procedural wood materials by Blendermada. #blender3dAestheticsToday I didn't save the world, but I did help a student while power-walking at the mall.I’m far from perfect, and injustice and …AcademiaStage Right Nation goes Into the Woods at Saint Vincent Summer Theater. Great job Renata, …Stage Right Nation goes Into the Woods a…PersonalProfessoring. With…
Rewatching ST:TNG after almost 20 years. The series pilot Encounter at Farpoint reads as obviously padded. Yes, the ship was new to us and we wanted a good look at it inside and out, but the slow pan across the engineering set was a waste of time, since no plot events happen there. And while I…
Similar:Stupid Puns For the WinMy daughter just trounced me in a pun wa…AmusingLeveling up my skills in #blender3D. Using invisible shapes to cut holes …DesignLiving Room PhysicsI’ve blogged before about my eight-year-…EducationDetails for a modular mid-range scoutship, from the #steampunk #neovictorian bedtime stori…Details for a modular mid-range scoutshi…AestheticsYesterday my wife took this last known picture…
Similar:Carolyn and Nick in Beauty and the BeastAestheticsThe amazing daughter is featured in the ads for this commercial dance event. The amazing daughter is featured in th…PersonalLittle Women (Thurs-Sun)PersonalBlank template details and a wider view of a 30cm x 30cm grid of brass and glass #neovicto…PersonalComing of Age (TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 18)Rewatching ST:TNG…
Similar:Oregon Trail: How three Minnesotans forged its pathRawitsch, a lanky, bespectacled 21-year-…CultureOn Their Last Day, Student Newspaper Editors Cover a Shooting on Their CampusTHREE HOURS BEFORE A SHOOTING WAS FIRST …Academia1949 NBC Radio Adaptation of Orwell's 1984Long before the Apple ad, and Michael Ra…CultureShakespeare on EclipsesPrepping for tomorrow’s first meeting of…AcademiaVeteran’s microphone cut off when…
The cliffhanger for Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “The Best of Both Worlds,” June, 1990. I was a freshly-graduated English BA with good summer editing and PR gigs already lined up, admission to an MA program in hand, and a big group of friends who often gathered at midnight Sunday. That was when the local…