Carolyn Jerz lights up the stage from her first entrance, almost literally. Dressed in bright colors and elaborately coiffed, with her face made up so pale white that it glows (think Björk meets Catherine O’Hara in Beetlejuice), Jerz imbues the role of spiritualist and yoga enthusiast Marigold with an outsider energy that is otherworldly, larger than life,…
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:Progress (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 15) Kira befriends a stubborn squatterRewatching ST:DS9 Dax and Kira are ch…CultureFantasticks (Theatre Factory, Oct 18-27) AestheticsKeeping things in the proper perspective at 4Cs: Praise for my delivery of a line…
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:She feels pretty at the dress rehearsal (opens Thursday)On the ride home, in the middle of a…
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:A quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier with my history-loving son.A quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier wi…CultureLovely set for @prime_stage Frankenstein. The daughter joined this cast…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:Datalore (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 12) Data's bro wants to be with a big crystal tr…In “Datalore,” an encounter with Data’s …CultureFaculty lining up for #SetonHill's "Go Orientation" — new ceremony hands students from th…AcademiaI played hooky from work to see Wild Robot with my…
#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:Here's how Maria amuses herself on the ride home from dress rehearsal. #WestSideStoryPersonalDowntime with the boy.PersonalOops. I’m going to bed now. I’ll fix it tomorrow.Oops. I’m going to bed now. I’ll…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:Students say "math class is stupid and boring," and they are right. –Mathematician Paul L…I am working on some conference papers t…Culture'Wear a mask.' Trump predicts coronavirus will 'get worse' as he returns to…
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:Ross deserves better "Friends": a defense of nerdsI was not a fan of this show, but I am a…Culture20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don't GetI expect my English majors not to balk…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:I ordered a box of composition books. Low-tech response to AI.I felt like a capitalist, buying in bulk…AcademiaMy Shakespeare students are off peer reviewing their term paper rough drafts. I’m official…AcademiaMost Americans have…
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:Another 10 sq cm of details for a #steampunk control panel. Just background eye candy, not…AestheticsBad Doggy — practicing "Tomorrow" with a human Sandyhttp://www.youtube.com/v/718e4XsNvGY …AmusingThis time of year I trust the process. Students are learning why a "yes/no" rese…Personal1776. Binge-watching Liberty's Kids. New this year: Carolyn singing songs…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:It’s that time again.PersonalFaculty/staff orientation begins @setonhilluniversity PersonalFormer student: "I remember sometimes being annoyed with all of our blogging assignments, …A third alum in the last few weeks has c…AcademiaThe boy approved of the WWII historical fiction Dunkirk. CultureParty Like a Jerz My dad just made us root beer floats.PersonalI’m fairly satisfied…
Similar:Take my feedback if you want to pass.As my students in a compressed online co…AcademiaRare find discovered amid town's Old West kitschInstead of dispensing a card like Zoltar…AestheticsJustin Bieber and the Beatles: They both liked to rhyme the same words.A good example of a computer-native, dat…CultureWhat Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?Current…
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:Carolyn appears as homeschooled teenager "Carolyn." Free holiday show Tuesday at 7. PersonalUnion siege cannon, printing press, and "From Slavery to Freedom" were the highl…PersonalOuttakes from “Once on…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Annie — Cabinet TomorrowMy 10yo daughter Carolyn played Annie in…AmusingAnother random background control panel for a #blender3d #steampunk project. I wish all us…AestheticsApparently I’m using boolean modifiers to carve out negative-space greebles for a texture …AestheticsMy student journalists sport their fashionable…
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:Magnetic Scrolls Original Games Source Code Recovered!Here we have possibly the only surviving…CybercultureEmergence (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 23) Enterprise-D subsystems…
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…