I spent about 30 seconds eyeballing the hexcode colors for Starfleet uniforms so that, from now on, when I’m marking papers, my Canvas interface will remind me just a little bit of Star Trek. Where do you create joy? Captain’s log… supplemental entry. It’s not a perfect match, but the blue and gold are hard…
Because what he never managed to grok then was that the company he created was destined to become a template for all of humanity, the digital reflection of masses of people across the globe. Including — and especially — the bad ones. Was it because he was a computer major who left college early and…
Similar:Union siege cannon, printing press, and "From Slavery to Freedom" were the highl…PersonalYou're Doing It for the Exposure!! The Oatmeal on working for “exposure…BusinessThe girl will be Mrs Lovett in Stage Right's Sweeney Todd at the end of July. #3week #musi…DramaReally enjoyed watching Your Name with the family. Visuals hooked me, but the story kept…
Carolyn Jerz is playing the lead role of Maria, and Logan Williams will take on the role of her love interest, Tony. “(Carolyn) is one of my favorite actresses to work with,” Handford said. “She started out as an understudy for Maria, but she read for Maria at our first read-thru and even before she…
Similar:Classic. So good! #startrek #tosPersonalThe Miracle Worker opens tomorrow.PersonalWho choked up while reading aloud Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” during a lesson on creative nonf…Who choked up while reading aloud Sagan’…PersonalGetting in the Christmas spirit.Personal"The Nightmare of Prince Prezelsky"Leigh, Peter, Carolyn and I had fun reco…AmusingWrite instructions for busy grouches.Updating the graphic for a writing hando…Academia
Similar:The Myth of the Fake Geek Girl It’s not surprising, then, that being a…CultureSo I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschr…So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #…AcademiaLiaisons (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 2) Picard is Marooned with a lovelorn …Rewatching ST:TNG Worf grumbles about…AmusingWhat About “The Breakfast…
A recent video that shows a kid in the bleachers bobbling a foul ball, and a man picking up the ball and presenting it to the woman next to him, doesn’t show what it seems to show. Julian Green of the Cubs said in a statement, “Unfortunately, a video that was quickly posted and unverified…
In Suzanne Bradbeer’s play FULL BLOOM, Jesse (played by Seton Hill’s DeShaun Herzog) owns a prized Hank Aaron Rookie Card. The girl he likes from school, Phoebe (played by Carolyn Jerz), has always wanted the rookie card of her personal hero, Roberto Clemente. As Phoebe goes through a tough emotional struggle in this play, how…
They weren’t the most newsworthy part of Trump’s Florida rally yesterday, but I’m just taking a moment to acknowledge a journalist who is using muted language, in keeping with the charge of journalists to report objectively. It’s perfectly neutral to place, deep in the body of the article, a note about the president’s claim that…
Similar:How Common Core Testing Damaged High School English ClassesHelping my students understand how my ro…AcademiaRehearsing for Little Women Tuesday (Carolyn plays Amy)PersonalAlex and Carolyn rehearse for “The King and I” Saturday nightPersonalThe girl performed musical commercials for a fund-raiser in the Laurel Highlands (and she …The girl performed musical commercials f…CulturePictures from opening night of…
16yo Carolyn Jerz performs “A Little Priest” with 14yo Ben Federico. A video clip can capture only part of the magic created by a huge, committed cast, live musicians, and an attentive audience. (Support the arts in your community!) Similar:Weird History offers a good debunking of this persistent myth.Personal"The threat is no longer simply from…
Similar:Don't call it "social distancing" or you just might get a polite correction from the admin…AcademiaWestmoreland County Air Show 2012 (Photos)Traffic leaving the Arnold Palmer Region…AestheticsI just picked up both Aslan's How and Cair Paravel. #narnia #monopolyPersonalI'm marking them faster than they come in, which is a good thing. I won't be doi…PersonalSam Shepard Giggles,…
Here’s a thought… nothing you can write can possibly encourage me to click through 40 separate chunks of text. Bye. Similar:A pie slice from the ring surrounding the ballroom, from the #steampunk bedtime stories I …AestheticsThe Onion's Supreme Court Briefing on Satire Is StunningFrom October: A man who was arrested ov…AmusingMy daughter who sometimes does…
Sometimes my students get nervous because I ask them to learn writing by, you know, writing. For some other subjects, it makes sense to ease students into the work, having them memorize facts to recall for points on multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank quizzes. But writers gotta write. That means taking risks, and occasionally stumbling. In a…
After I read Mark Sample’s blog post “What about Blogging Keeps Me from Blogging,” I tried to post a comment lamenting that I miss blog comments. I ran into these fun problems. Similar:Narrative, Creativity, and EvolutionMy students are finishing up Hayles, My …AcademiaA Man Alone (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 4) Crime scene…
Words apparently spoken by the President of the United States. If you trust the news organization that reported what he said. But the President has no reason to mislead the public. He loves the public probably more than anybody. Believe me. Similar:How We Found Tom Price’s Private JetsGreat behind-the-scenes story of the har…Current_EventsDetails like…
Verrit, like Snopes, Politifact, and a host of other fact-checking sites, reflect fundamental misunderstandings about how information circulates online, what function political information plays in social contexts, and how and why people change their political opinions. Fact-checking is in many ways a response to the rapidly changing norms and practices of journalism, news gathering, and…
Helping my students understand how my role as a college literature teacher differs from the role of a high school English teacher is a sometimes daunting task. Preparing students for a standardized reading test is completely unlike teaching them about a work of classic literature. In an English class addressing The Great Gatsby, depending on student ability…
In my freshman writing class, my job is to teach students how to write a researched essay. I encourage students to pick topics that interest them, but I warn them that if they go into their project already convinced that one answer is correct (that euthanasia should/should not be legal, that abortion is murder/healthcare, that…
Similar:"The face of the last man on Earth." #alquist #rur #robots #capek #virtual #theater Gettin…AestheticsThe ballroom of my #steampunk fantasy space cruiser is now a less lonely place. Thanks to watching many, many YouTub…AestheticsWhile searching my bag for a cable, I found an unexpected wealth of food-substitute items.AmusingMy mother has taught me so much. I'm…