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:Blank template details and a wider view of a 30cm x 30cm grid of brass and glass #neovicto…PersonalKeeping it classy. My 20yo son encounters the fruit-eating scene from the 1996 point-and-c…PersonalLook how the box leads your eye down…
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:Progress.PersonalMoonBot (from the family steampunk bedtime RPG 2007-2013) vs. a crate and lamps.https://youtu.be/h2P2Ve-oZ1U AestheticsThe Offspring (StarTrek:TNG Rewatch,…
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:You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.Some people out there will never like yo…Culture#Blender3D practice: #Steampunk control…
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend. Similar:I told them to put their name on both pages.I told them to put their name on both pa…AcademiaCEO’s brutalist office, for a Zoom-based production of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)….AestheticsFor the record, if I should happen to be murdered by someone with a gun… For the…
#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:Seeing the premiere of a play based on the life of a Holocaust survivor who ended up as a …PersonalSpanish dance @laurelballettheater @westmorelandsymphony The NutcrackerDanceGround-nesting Yellowjacket WaspsWhile my 16yo son was…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:The School of Humanities honors me and my colleagues @mikearnzen and Dan Martino as we com…The School of Humanities honors me and m…PersonalHow Television Covered the Kennedy Assassination – a 1964 TV Guide ArticleIt…
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:You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell youWe’re culturally programmed to admire pe…CultureNew data on the first three jobs held by graduates of six popular majors“There is…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:For God's sake John, sit down!CultureWhy Fears of Fake News Are OverhypedFacebook seems to have made changes that…CultureAs Trump ranted and rambled in Phoenix, his crowd slowly thinned The journalist chose to spotlight a…
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:How do you know when your #steampunk fantasy cruiser has enough lamps? #blender3d #unity3dhttps://youtube.com/shorts/YF3z91jL7Pc …AestheticsThe daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park.The daughter is performing now Twin Lake…PersonalYesterday we took advantage of a rare free day.At the Carnegie Museum of Art. AestheticsFULL BLOOM at Latrobe’s Olde Main, Aug…
The daughter is performing now Twin Lakes Park. Similar:My colleague @crissycp once again left an amazing Irish soda bread in the break room. (Yes…AwesomeLate night set construction for The Miracle Worker.ArtAnother chess tournament with the boy.GamesWhat Khan Academy's Fun, Free Learning Empire Has to Do with Dystopian Social Control Over the Christmas break, I’ve been ch…AcademiaA student…
Similar:Brain, InterruptedIn most situations, the person juggling …AcademiaMoon for the MisbehottenEven though I wrote about some of Eugene…CultureIn one small prairie town, two warring visions of AmericaGreat writing and great photography in t…CultureWhat's next in game narrative, with Emily Short Something that I tended to think was…CultureThis is what happened when a KDKA-TV journalist showed…
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:My Kids Are Shatner Than MostI passed along to my geeklings an apprec…DramaContagion (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 11)Picard faces aggressive Romulans and an …DesignSpring office cleaning…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:Oh that sweet, sweet feeling of progress.PersonalEvery conversation between a parent and a child, in four conversations. (Slate)This whole item applies very well to one…AmusingServing at midnight breakfast.PersonalLighting makes a difference. The officers' pub from the interplanetary cruiser #steampunk … AestheticsFULL…
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:Learn from this typesetter's mistakeWisdom to keep in mind as I plan for thi…LiteracySpanish dance @laurelballettheater @westmorelandsymphony The NutcrackerDanceHow to Keep Students…
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…