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:My kids are in a tree. How's your Friday?PersonalYeah natural born creative genius is a cool myth, but have you tried grinding through hour…PersonalDid you see that guy’s license plate?Did you see that guy’s license plate? …AmusingMany things in the world are awful right now but my latest section of a #neovictorian them…AestheticsShe was nervous…
Similar:While searching my bag for a cable, I found an unexpected wealth of food-substitute items.AmusingPortraits of my 11yo: Pretty, Goofy, and Pretty GoofyAmusingMy crowd simulation handles 2000 capsule NPCs at 130fps. I’m really pushing my coding skil…AestheticsMy crazy Friday night involved tweaking the graphic for an #MLAstyle instructional web pag…AcademiaSherlock Holmes and The Woman (WAOB…
Similar:Enjoyed watching "Queen of Katwe" (Ugandan girl chess prodigy movie)I enjoyed watching this chess-themed com…CultureOut & About: Cabaret Theatre presents its 'Cabbie Awards'You can just make out Carolyn, Leigh, an…CultureTonight's Supermoon.AestheticsBehind the bar in the officers' pub, from the #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my…AestheticsThank you, Bogdan, for fixing and dropping off my…
Similar:Today's 10 sq cm of a #steampunk control panel (background greebles for a personal project…AestheticsAscending the path to High Hrothgar? No, just the snow-covered steps from the parking lot… Ascending the path to High Hrothgar?…PersonalEvery family has one.PersonalPluto FlybyWhen I was about 10, I wrote to NASA and…Current_EventsVery interesting adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.…
Similar:Frozen opens tonight. (All shows have been sold out for over a month.)DramaThere are many Star Wars references in Dani Girl, so I made this tribute to Tom Jung's 197…CultureSpotted: the North American tree daughter.NatureMedea at Seton Hill University.CultureOne strategic twist-tie, and my bedside cable-tangles are a distant memory.PersonalCarolyn plays Ti Moune in the Stage…
Similar:My Parents (aged 72 and 78) Demonstrate a Ballroom Dance PoseThis is how my parents finish their Arge…AestheticsChallenger Disaster: 30 YearsI was a high school senior, watching on …CybercultureIf you like to play with words, good newsI wish there were a secret day between F…CultureFake News Taints Facebook's Trending TopicsIn an experiment conducted over several…
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:More details in the powder room of my villain's lair. #Blender3DAestheticsFrazetta's "A Princess of Mars" painting sells for…
Similar:Practicing with materials and geometry. The lamps and chair require hundreds of times as m… AestheticsHappy Sweet Sixteen, Carolyn!The girl spent her birthday weekend open…PersonalMy beautiful daughter says "Happy Valentine's Day" View t…AestheticsI went down fighting.PersonalWhen we play Star Trek Monopoly, I am the Captain’s chair. GamesComputers and Writing 2020 Funding Request: SubmittedMy contributions this…
Similar:After my conference talk, a post-audition, pre-Jane-Eyre-performance dinner with the girl.PersonalFamily catch and eat octopus with six tentacles during Greek vacationI keep a silly personal blog devoted to …PersonalI am happy with how this turned out. My mother told me about this story when I was little,…PersonalI had a grand time recording this little story…
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…
Don’t blame “the media” for using this photo, often identified as immigrant children separated from their parents and placed in a cage. I saw this image in my social media feed numerous times over the weekend; it wasn’t journalists who kept sharing it, it was random people (and probably a non-trivial number of bots) on…
Similar:Chipping away at the total as the final submissions pour in.PersonalHow Not to Be a Jackass at Your Next Academic ConferenceOkay, I confess, I was once in the audie…AcademiaFeeling classy while I lose. Feeling classy while I lose. PersonalPOV: You are coding the automatic doors on your fantasy neovictorian cruiser personal proj… POV: You are…
Similar:Today’s #blender3d modeling, inspired by a satellite photo courtesy of Google Maps. (I’m n…Today’s #blender3d modeling, inspired by…DesignI'd love to do a shift at these gorgeous #neovictorian workstations, created in #Blender3D…AestheticsI asked my geekling whether she was ready for bed…I asked my #geekling whether she was rea…AmusingModular support craft from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime stories…
Similar:It’s been a while since something got me into a movie theater. Obviously I wasn’t in a rus… It’s been a while since something got …AmusingPict Free Summer Webinar: Shakespeare’s HeroesCultureA stranger took this photo of my parents doing their daily crossword together in a cafe.A stranger took this photo of my parents…CultureTreasure peaceful moments…
This is really noteworthy. Today the President of the United States denied a statement that was issued in the White House by one of his own officials, claiming that the official does not exist and that the New York Times invented the source. This is not about a reporter making an error, or selectively quoting…
In the Washington Post, Greg Sargent analyzes a pattern in Trump’s very effective rhetoric. As you’ll recall, after Trump made his “animals” comment, his defenders — and Trump himself — erupted in anger at news organizations that had not explained that it had come amid a discussion of MS-13 members. It’s not clear from the…