Moments after Donald Trump was rushed to safety following a failed assassination attempt at a Saturday night rally, some of his supporters turned toward the press pen with obscenities as they fingered reporters for blame. “This is your fault!” one attendee emphatically yelled, pointing at individual journalists as he approached the fence line separating them from attendees.…
Your first attempt at a medieval gate and city walls will be your worst. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:Snazzy officer uniforms from the #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult ch…AestheticsFamily, I Hear You. I Love You. Go Away. This Weekend, I'm Marking Papers.No, I don’t want to see the new jacket y…AcademiaEnjoying a…
Sold out opening night of Mamet’s Oleanna. Chilling. Gasps from the audience. Office furniture may be a bit too fancy for an untenured prof, but multiple copies of the prof’s book on the shelves was a realistic touch. Similar:Seeing A Wrinkle in Time. @prime_stagePersonalJust a #steampunk captain inspecting the æther power orbs. #Blender3D #Unity3D #design…
These buildings are so much better than my first try about a month ago, and good enough for me to move on to the next step. #blender3d #blender3dart #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:Here I am sketching spaceships like I’m 12 again. I feel like re-reading the novelization …AestheticsMerry Christmas 2018PersonalCarolyn and Nick in Beauty and the BeastAestheticsIt’s…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:NASA reconnects with Voyager 1 (after months of confusion) NASA says it is once again abl…AwesomeThey Smiled Too!Victorians had to stay still for 3 secon…AestheticsFall colors are past their peak but it's still a beautiful late October day.PersonalFull Bloom opens next weekend. Tickets 724-527-5777.PersonalAnother section of…
#blender3d is teaching me more than I ever thought I’d need to know about roof geometry. Enjoying free WiFi in a shady courtyard downtown. Similar:Me loving my birthday truck, c. 1971. I adored this truck, and spellin…DesignTwo classes will turn in final revisions at midnight Sunday, and final multimedia project…Still plenty of work to do…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:She feels pretty at the dress rehearsal (opens Thursday)On the ride home, in the middle of a spi…AmusingIt's exam week, and at the moment I have exactly one unmarked assignment (for a paper due…
The writer, director, and one of the cast members talk about the play that my daughter Carolyn is getting ready to open Friday. Tickets: https://veryberrydead.bpt.me/ Similar:All the Classroom’s a StageSome good observations in this essay. As…AcademiaWilliam Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52 On this date — April 23, 1616 — the cr…CultureElly Noble…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:I'm nerdy enough to give my 15yo a used copy of "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." I’m nerdy enough to give my 15yo a used …BooksHumans are being hired to make AI…
I used to spend time in class teaching students about how your act of choosing to link from your blog to someone else’s blog was part of the formula Google used to rank its search results. The words you picked when you crafted your hyperlink was a way of conveying or withholding value. Tagging is…
Replica of George Washington’s field camp. @fortligonier Similar:The boy wins once again. #chessGamesDaughter made a Rainbow Loom Marty McFly. Note vest jacket and hover board.PersonalMore 18th Century fun @fortligonierMore 18th Century fun @fortligonierPersonalSteampunk flag for the United States of Britannia (from the alternate history my kids and …In the steampunk world my kids and I…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:We are all of us works in progress. Sometimes progress looks messy.PersonalI've missed doing this! Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3d …AestheticsUnfinished pine and not so ornamented, for the workshops and service areas of my fantasy #…PersonalAscending the path to High Hrothgar? No,…
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I’m not making a serious attempt at recreating specific architecture, just trying to convey a sense of what the streets might have looked like. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay #simulation Similar:Prime Stage Theatre Makes A Statement With Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” For Carolyn Jerz, who plays Viol…CulturePublic service announcement! If you are feeling awkward at a social event…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Nerdy Rainbow Loom CraftingMy wonderfully geeky tween made these Bl…AestheticsLonely Among Us (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 6) Crew-posessing spark roams and a droid …Conflict between two species who petitio…AestheticsSeize the Day!PersonalWe celebrate the good life of my father, George Joseph…
Glenda Morgan does not sound that impressed with Google’s latest promises about AI and education. [T]hus far I am unconvinced that the kinds of tutoring currently offered via AI matches the concept of watching a student’s thought processes and identifying the core issues they aren’t understanding. Instead, AI tutoring today seems to consist of breaking…
When scholars of journalism study the effects of the shrinking press corps, they usually focus on how it hurts civil society. Vast swaths of the country are at risk of becoming “news deserts,” with limited access to reliable local journalism. This state of affairs makes it harder for people to make educated decisions and is…
Not bad for a couple hours of work. #blender3d #blender3dart #steampunk #neovictorian I painstakingly created every knob and switch as a 3D object two summers ago. Now I can slap these textures anywhere. Similar:Prime Stage presents ‘Twelfth Night’ as season-ending productionLooking forward to seeing this! Set in …CultureValid for any new yearEthicsReplaying Childhood: On Gifting…
Over the past couple of years, researchers at Jigsaw, a Google subsidiary that focuses on online politics and polarization, have been studying how Gen Zers digest and metabolize what they see online. The researchers were hoping that their work would provide one of the first in-depth, ethnographic studies of Gen Z’s “information literacy.” But the…
I was never really a fan of MTV, I assume because I grew up without cable TV as a teenager in the 80s, and because I was very busy with grad school and starting a family in the 90s. I didn’t really feel like I had much in common with my “Gen X” cohort (most…