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:No more braces!PersonalWe celebrate the good life of my father, George Joseph Jerz “Be straight like a board!” …EmpathyThe Cabaret Theatre (Latrobe) presents Shakespeare's popular Midsummer Supernatural pranksters! mismatched …CultureThey've got magic to do. Carolyn is the Leading Player. (Pippin, Oct 21-29) AwesomeFinished Reading "Fibble," Book 4 in "Heck: Where Bad Kids Go."I finished…
Similar:I was perhaps a bit more conversational and chipper than usual during class today. A grinn…I was perhaps a bit more conversational …AcademiaDaughter is in 2 theatrical productions opening this weekendThe daughter plays Laertes in Seton Hill…BooksSeriously, clouds? Now?PersonalA gangway, flanked by still more #steampunk control panels, leads forward from the chief e…AestheticsMuch Ado About…
Similar:Opening night of Sive.PersonalAnnie 2012 with Annie 2017. Annie 2012 with her Warbucks. "Together at last. Together …PersonalMy Kids Loved Narnia but Were Unimpressed by Turkish DelightAmerican kids today would have little id…AmusingConnecting with the BoyToday my son asked me to take him shoppi…Culture"Moorish girl" in Man of La Mancha. (Vulcan Moorish girl.)PersonalIt's a lie…
Similar:Crabby 10yo Ties Self to Pole to Protest InjusticeMy wife confiscated my preteen daughter’…CultureMerry Christmas 2018PersonalWho's ready for some free outdoor Hamlet?PersonalSharing a root beer float with your dad doesn't fix everything that's wrong in the world, …AestheticsGet Hands-on Writing Experience.AcademiaI think I smelled a hint of my mint toothpaste just now. Wishful thinking, or…
Similar:Crash site and Tower of Voices. Well worth the side trip on the way back from a weekend gi…Flight 93 crash site and Tower of Voices…CultureMy Minecraft-obsessed tween made this blocky foam pig at art camp. Next up: Stage Right summer musical th…AestheticsOverview of the Forward Ops station, one deck below the main bridge of…
Similar:Narrow ParsersCreating n00b-friendly interactive ficti…CybercultureEarth doesn't need more 'successful people'.The plain fact is that the planet does n…AestheticsAI generated images from the prompt "guy being bricked in a prison like a poe story b…PersonalAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #relaxing #aestheti…AestheticsLittle Women (Thurs-Sun)PersonalChildren struggle to hold pencils due to too much…
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:Another square of #steampunk control panel eye candy. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #a…AestheticsPage Weight MattersUnexpected consequences, when a develope…CybercultureI…
Similar:Celebration of Writing Fall 2018PersonalMore #steampunk control panels. Recessed workstations with fold-down keyboards. #blender3d…PersonalFamily outing to the Pittsburgh National AviaryPersonalToday's lunarbaboon… there might be something in my eye. Hey! Want me to take her f…AwesomeAnother #steampunk #neovictorian control panel module. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #…AestheticsMedea at Seton Hill University.Culture
Similar:It will be harder to leave Facebook than it was to leave Twitter It was not that hard to leave Twitter….CybercultureScratch 3.0 beta is available. Try out the text-to-speech blocks!PersonalThey figured it out.PersonalAnother delightful section of a #steampunk #neovictorian control panel. #design #aesthetic…AestheticsSomething to Ponder — Let Me Fix That Meme For YouArtSettling in to…
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:More #steampunk control panel bits for a #neovictorian #blender3D project. I have a master…AestheticsHomeschool prom 2017PersonalThe automatic doors on my fantasy steampunk cruiser do work… kinda TThe automatic doors on my fantasy stea…PersonalFolger Shakespeare Library on "The Fate of Ophelia"On my ride into work yesterday, my mothe…AcademiaTricking the eye to see 3D details in geometrically…
Similar:Lighting really makes a difference! A glimpse into the captain's ready room, off the offic… AestheticsRhythm of the Dance (Irish dance, song, and music touring show)My family thoroughly enjoyed this perfor…AestheticsOnce on This Island (Stage Right! Greensburg; May 11 & 12 Promo Video)The girl plays Ti Moune in “Once on This…CultureCompleted uniforms for the officers…
Similar:Stuffed planet Venus, made for me by my dear mother, around 1974.AestheticsReliving memories and saying goodbye to my late colleague Sr. Ann Infanger.Reliving memories and saying goodbye to …PersonalCombined, base color, roughness and metallic passes. #Blender3d steampunk control panel. AestheticsFallout Monopoly with the boy. PersonalOpening Night: New "The Little Mermaid"At night, instead of getting ready for…
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…