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…
A few years ago, I told myself I would start making a bigger deal about such things. It’s too easy to obsess over the students who don’t care, don’t like how I teach X, stopped submitting the assignments, didn’t apply my feedback, etc. I do wish I could get more students to feel grateful before…
My son and I saw “Won’t You Be Ny Neighbor” at a special showing in Greensburg (not far from Fred Rodgers’ hometown of Latrobe). My daughter performed PICT’s Jane Eyre in the Fred Rogers Studio at WQED (where part of the floor is still painted like the path in the Neighborhood of Make Believe. …
I tell this old newsroom tale to my students: An angry editor sees a cub reporter coming into work. “I sent you to cover a concert,” says the editor. “Why didn’t you file the story?” The cub reporter says, “The concert hall burned down.” Sometimes the story you set out to cover is not the…
Similar:So peaceful and majestic. Another outing with my son.PersonalOh the Overthinks You Can Overthink: Horton the Elephant, the Wickersham Brothers, and Mas…Yesterday, I performed in a school matin…AcademiaAnother section of a #steampunk control panel. Useful for a cutaway shot after a character…Aesthetics"It's called an amphora," the artist says.AestheticsHow are you holding up? What difficult choices…
Similar:"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does …PersonalSupport the humans who make art in your community. Death of a Salesman. #wirerecorderlife …Support the humans who make art in your …PersonalMany familiar faces in this cast but this one is my favorite. Sold out opening of Grand…
Similar:Fancy a game of whist with your nemesis? The prospect of ruin adds piquancy to the pleasur…PersonalMy mom’s Lionel train set (a gift from her father in 1948) had been in storage for 35 year… My mother wants me to thank John at …AestheticsFaculty assembling in launch tube beneath Salvitti Gym. #classof2017 @setonhilluniversityPersonalSnazzy officer uniforms…
Similar:Oh , potatoes and molasses. If you want some, you can ask us. PersonalSomething to Ponder — Let Me Fix That Meme For YouArtThis is manageable. Far better than some semesters.This is manageable. Far better than some…PersonalAnother #steampunk #neovictorian control panel module. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #…AestheticsMy brother, in town to see The Nutcracker, starts a chess…
Similar:You come very close to successfully combining argument and explication here… I recently came across a box of old wr…AcademiaUnmarked assignments. Major drafts came in over the weekend so I lost some ground but I kn…PersonalA day may come when the strength of the girl fails and she must make more than one trip to…PersonalThe…
Similar:It will be harder to leave Facebook than it was to leave Twitter It was not that hard to leave Twitter….CybercultureSinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley CyrusI was never a fan of Sinéad O’Connor, bu…AestheticsFirst page of a student’s Texture project. (This made me laugh.) This clever freshman writing student…AcademiaPippin! Last show today at 2pm.CultureTransfigurations…
Context matters. Good journalists should go out of their way to avoid creating a mistaken impression. Fox News apologized Tuesday after receiving a torrent of criticism over the network’s use of photos of various players for the Philadelphia Eagles kneeling in prayer, creating the misleading impression that they were demonstrating during the national anthem. The…
He could have built, you know, a junkyard mechanic droid, or a general manual labor droid, or a Bitcoin-mining droid, or a freedom-fighter droid? No, he builds a fussy butler. The silliness of this just hit me. Similar:The Liminal Classroom”What,” I asked, “are we to make of Plat…AcademiaThe ballroom of my #steampunk fantasy space cruiser…
Similar:Another delightful section of a #steampunk #neovictorian control panel. #design #aesthetic…AestheticsT-Shirts for student journalists who recently leveled up to “staff writer”(with bear signe…PersonalThis is the first time during the pandemic that we’ve brought this game out. Very topical.PersonalWhat if I design a #steampunk fantasy cruiser and there aren’t enough chairs? How do I kno… AestheticsDear…
Similar:Happy Easter 2020 CultureA vacation minibar story from 20 years ago.PersonalHidden Spaces, New Possibilities I’ve often had dreams about returning …CultureAfter lights out, the girl is knitting.PersonalCarolyn at about 7yo drew Titania in love with Bottom. #tbt #midsummerArtRude mechanical sighting! Shakespearing it up with @newrentheatreco.Personal
This story offers evidence to challenge the stereotype that under employed humanities majors are stuck working in service jobs years after graduation. STEM jobs are indeed the most marketable, but a recent study found that after five years, business, health professions, education and psychology make up far more of the underemployed graduates than English or…
Facebook is discontinuing the “trending” list. After the employees hired by Facebook to curate the trending news items were found to bury news they didn’t like, Facebook fired them all and tried to automate the process. If it matters to you whether their bias was liberal or conservative you can look it up, but my…
As an American studying in Toronto during the Clinton administration, I encountered some non-negligible anti-American bias. I learned to pronounce the last letter of the alphabet “zed” when I was spelling my name. When I sang “ahh-men” in a church choir, the music director stopped the rehearsal to express his surprise that I hadn’t sung…