For my summer project, teaching myself the Unity Game Engine, I’m updating the texture atlas I created for control consoles for the flagship of the steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my kids. My designs are now a lot less blocky and more visually interesting. When I showed the girl, she was impressed. Then…
Similar:This class has been everything that I expect it would be and I cannot believe that we are …Some days are slogs. Some weeks are slo…AcademiaHow are you holding up? What difficult choices have you made? How can we all help each oth…Carolyn and were recently cast in a hist…CultureThe girl is intrigued by the…
Similar:The Icarus Factor (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 14)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…PersonalA professor examines why her students seem to act so helpless (essay)This essay on college students acting he…AcademiaAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dartAestheticsTips to Improve HappinessKing says many simple and effective tech…CultureThe daughter was invited back to perform…
Democrats wildly over-estimate the percentage of Republicans who make over 250k a year (estimated: 44%; actual: 2%). Republicans are almost as bad when it comes to predicting the percentage of Democrats who are LBG (estimated: 38%; actual: 6%) and atheist/agnostic (estimated: 36%; actual: 9%). Both groups were a little closer to the mark when asked…
Similar:Grandpa Joe's Candy Store.Sugar rush at Grandpa Joe’s Candy Store….AestheticsThe Fantasticks closes today at 2.PersonalMy precious is fifteen. PersonalEpic Game of Thrones pun battle. Carolyn Jerz Vs. Greg KerestanHere is the transcript the girl provided…AmusingJury Duty UpdateI’m a happy, responsible, and no-longer-…GovernmentEach building in my #medievalyork simulation has four levels of detail (so that distant ob…Aesthetics
Similar:Where There's a Whip, There's a WayThe girl was singing lyrics she learned …AmusingOops. I’m going to bed now. I’ll fix it tomorrow.Oops. I’m going to bed now. I’ll fix it …AestheticsOn the way to closing night of "Orphans."PersonalCan't upload photos to Facebook from my MacBookI spent 30 minutes trying to upload abou…CybercultureAdded a splash…
Like all successful demagogues, Trump has a talent for identifying scapegoats. It is not hyperbole to say that he speaks of Latino immigrants in much the same way that European monsters once spoke of Jews. It is equally foolish, however, to look past a sign that all is not well in Trumpland and that the…
Similar:I rather like my camera. Bought a new zoom lens a few months ago.PersonalI regularly teach A Raisin in the Sun but haven't seen a live production in decades. Looki… AwesomeA pleasant find: somebody left a painted rock by the side of the road.AestheticsBackstage opening night.Personal“If music be the food of love, play on!” I…
Similar:My Anti-Linkbait Pledge: Cynical Overhyping vs. Simply Being OnlineWhen I find something interesting that a…CultureI had to act like I knew something about golf. There I am on the right at about :15.PersonalWhen she's grown and flown, I will miss the thick deposit of glitter in my back seat.When she’s grown and flown, I will…
Similar:I'd love to do a shift at these gorgeous #neovictorian workstations, created in #Blender3D…AestheticsOverview of the Forward Ops station, one deck below the main bridge of the fantasy #steamp…PersonalAnother day, another 10 square centimeters of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blende…AestheticsYou cannot serve both…PersonalSo this is Pi DayMy wife says she bought the pies intendi…AmusingLast day…
Similar:Celebration of Writing Fall 2019PersonalToday's 10 sq cm of #blender3d #steampunk control panel. #aesthetics #design #blender3dartAestheticsPics from Thursday's dress rehearsal of Shrek: The Musical. This weekend only! @stage…PersonalFather-daughter bonding between takes.That’s a prop knife in my right hand. AestheticsMy wife Leigh will direct the small-cast drama "Full Bloom" Aug 30-Sep 2My wife Leigh received a…
The more you identify with a particular point of view, the harder it is to recognize the difference between facts and opinions, and the easier it becomes to accept as “fact” an opinion that aligns with and affirms your world view. This is not something that only the “Liberal Elite Media” or the “Deplorable Right”…
We learned that though a degree made a big difference in the success of an entrepreneur, the field it was in and the school that it was from were not significant factors. YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki, for instance, majored in history and literature; Slack founder Stewart Butterfield in English; Airbnb founder Brian Chesky in the…
The original was a stunning image, which has been used to criticize ICE’s policy of separating children from parents attempting to immigrate at the border — a policy which Trump says he dislikes. The animated version of the Time cover makes it clear that this is a composite picture, though of course the emotional power…
No fake news here. This is why journalism matters. It wasn’t the moral consequences of his own immigration crackdown that caused Trump to act — it was “the sight of” those consequences. What happens to those families after they have been detained for over 20 days remains to be seen. Very glad to hear that…
One bedtime about 11 years ago, my 5yo daughter did not want to go to bed, so she asked me to tell her a story. Not to read one from a book — but to make one up for her. She and her brother would often spend time on long car rides telling stories together.…
One of the benefits of working at Seton Hill is they provide me with a MacBook Air and an iPad. I turn them in every few years for an upgrade. The computer the kids use for gaming is a Mac Mini that I bought in 2011, with a virtual machine that runs Windows. It has served…
After 25 years as the editorial cartoonist for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I was fired on Thursday. I blame Donald Trump. Well, sort of. I should’ve seen it coming. When I had lunch with my new boss a few months ago, he informed me that the paper’s publisher believed that the editorial cartoonist was akin to…
John Stubbs reviews Stephen Grenblatt’s Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power The psychology and spectacle of villainy and the intoxicating nature of power clearly preoccupied Shakespeare. The grandeur, amoral freedom of action and sheer theatrical potential of tyrants must have moved and excited him. The case of a confirmed murderous dictator, after all, especially one with the…
“Parents normally set these rules to promote their children’s scholastic development and to make sure that they invest enough time in schoolwork. But that evidently can also backfire,” commented Hargittai. But why exactly? The study can’t say definitively, but I emailed Hargattai to see what hypotheses she might have. “One possibility would be that such…