Similar:At the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland.At the airport, sending the daughter off…PersonalThe girl will be dancing as the Gold Fairy in Laurel Ballet's Sleeping Beauty tonight… PersonalRhythm of the Dance (Irish dance, song, and music touring show)My family thoroughly enjoyed this perfor…AestheticsThe girl asked me to read R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) to her.…
Update — Media Bias Chart 10.0 All human endeavors are biased. Vanessa Otero’s chart, which places various news organizations on a 2D chart with a left/centrist/right X axis, and a quality/garbage vertical axis, is a good opportunity to remind ourselves that seeking out and relying on quality reporting from “the other side” is an important…
Similar:A merry look at journalism in the classic "The Year without a Santa Claus"PersonalEnjoying live theater.The Illustrious Invalid. @kinetictheatre_pghPersonalMy parents doing their daily crossword puzzle.PersonalYour first test layout of medieval city streets will be your worst. #blender3d #medievalyo…Your first test layout of medieval city …Design"Jewish priests do this. It's where Leonard Nimoy got the Vulcan…
I’m having my students play Adam Cadre’s text-only, command-line interactive fiction game “9:05.” Over heard, from a student playing the early part of the game with a peer: “Did we just kill someone? We did something bad!” Similar:Feeling Like an Impostor at 49I reminded my Shakespeare students that …Academia1 small shirt for a man, 1…
“Look for the helpers” is only one part of how Fred Rogers recommended that parents help children deal with tragedy. Let your child know if you’re making a donation, going to a town meeting, writing a letter or e-mail of support, or taking some other action. It can help children to know that adults take…
Similar:Happy Easter 2019 Current_EventsHappy Sweet Sixteen, Carolyn!The girl spent her birthday weekend open…PersonalEnjoying some sibling nerdtime with Lego The Hobbit.Games“Waiting for Life” (Once on This Island)https://youtu.be/NeoVD3prQWYPersonalAnother sold-out Midsummer Thursday night. PersonalHey there, chaotic world in academia and beyond, could you settle down just a bit so I can…Academia
Similar:That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.Aesthetics31 Undeniable Truths That Journalism Majors Can All Agree OnBecause you know you have the chance to …AcademiaIt's been a Dwarf Fortress afternoon. AwesomeSights, Sounds, and Smells of Elizabethan TheaterSomewhere during my education I picked u…AcademiaA student who is writing her research paper on…
I got a perfect score. How did you do on this Pew Research quiz? See below how your results for the factual and opinion statements compared with the 5,035 randomly sampled adults that took part in our national survey and review how you responded to each question. For more information, see the full report, “Distinguishing Between…
Similar:Carolyn performed as Ariel yesterday in the New Renaissance Theatre Company's production o… Carolyn performed as Ariel yesterday i…AmusingSetting up high, medium and low levels of detail for this element of a city wall. #medieva…PersonalSound Design and the Wilhelm ScreamAhh-aaggh! https://www.youtube.com/wa…AestheticsTapestry (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 15) The dying Picard has a chance…
I touched up and board-ified a presentation on “fake news” for Seton Hill’s “Celebration of Scholarship” event. Similar:Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old Surveillance Restaurant studies surveillance foot…BusinessTrump, halting his own policy: "I didn’t like sight of families being separated." No fake news here. This is why journ…Current_EventsAn Adjunct's Death Becomes a…
Similar:Okay, not my most thrilling #blender3D creation, but a fantasy steampunk ship-of-the-line …Design"Shakespeare in Love" with the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra and Stage Right!When I teach Shakespeare, I will from ti…CultureTook the whole day off and spent part of it making #greebles with #Blender3D because reaso…AestheticsThoroughly enjoying Company.PersonalTop deck of a #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser needs an…
Similar:Yes, we will see almost anything branded Sherlock Holmes.PersonalIt's been a Dwarf Fortress afternoon. AwesomeOut & About: Stage Right holds its annual Heart of the Arts Gala Source: Out & About: Stage Right…CultureAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #design #aesthetics #blender3d #blender3dar…Aesthetics"A Mushroom at Last… A Mushroom Forever"I asked my 10yo why she…
Similar:Very interesting adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. #pptlaytime @thepublicpghCultureThose emails can wait.PersonalStudents whom I haven't met yet… Students whom I haven’t met yet, I’l…Academia#Blender3D rendition of the bridge of the æthership that featured in the musical #steampun…PersonalThe #Blender3D #eevee denoising filter gives off a pretty amazing Caldecott prize-winning …The filter won’t replace real hand-drawn…AestheticsBeing…
Similar:My son just handed me my serving of noodles in the butter substitute container. Recycling.AmusingMy student journalists sport their fashionable “What Would Jerz Do?” wristbands.AcademiaThree different sized buildings. Still working on variations for the biggest one. #blender…Three different sized buildings. Still w…AestheticsMy students were awesome. So many thoughtful final projects. So much growth. A stressful,…
I was crawling along the bottom of the lake on my arms and knees, looking for stones to skim, when my hand and knee felt something long and hard buried in the clay and sand. I pulled it out and saw that it was different from the sticks or rocks I usually find. One end…
https://youtu.be/tOYQc8vByoY Similar:Seeing A Wrinkle in Time. @prime_stagePersonalYou're Doing It for the Exposure!! The Oatmeal on working for “exposure…BusinessAnother corner building. Designed and textured. Needs an interior. #blender3d #design #ae…Another corner building. Designed and te…AestheticsAuditioning in Pittsbugh (flanked by shots from recent performances).CultureOuttakes from “Once on This Island” promohttps://youtu.be/QlMJuogD9to AmusingIn June 2021 I roughed out the…
We just bought a new refrigerator from our local Sears. As a kid, I remember circling toys I wanted in the Christmas catalog. Pages of Legos, Matchbox cars, sleeping bags, remote-controlled cars. There might have been no Sears at all if Richard Sears, a 19th-century railway agent, hadn’t received an unwanted shipment of watches. He…
Similar:A stranger took this photo of my parents doing their daily crossword together in a cafe.A stranger took this photo of my parents…CultureA support sloop on deck and in the landing bay. #steampunk #neovictorian #aesthetics #desi…AestheticsAuditioning in Pittsbugh (flanked by shots from recent performances).CultureCarolyn is in PICT Classic Theatre adaptation of Oliver Twist (opened Sat…
Making this illustration in Blender3D was almost as much fun as voicing the role of Electron Jones. This was my first project using the Cycles rendering engine. In the first episode of “Electron Jones,” the narrator describes looking down on a “levi-train” as a lunar transport takes off into the twilight sky in the futuristic…
An important but small detail in a Blender3D project I just finished is this trench-coated character. I started with a clip-art silhouette, but it looked pretty drab. Thanks to a little pixel-doctoring in The GIMP, I touched up the center image. The schlubby pant cuffs on this guy don’t fit the character, so I smoothed…