Jane Eyre is not a two-person show, and the smallish cast must take on double duty at least, filling a wide variety of roles in this production. Besides the previously mentioned [Paige] Borak, multipurpose players Jill Keating and Carolyn Jerz must be singled out- Keating takes on three different variations of the “matronly, unpleasant Victorian lady”…
Similar:Easter Blessings 2021 Current_EventsWhat would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood? @shu_hog… AmusingGame night at our local library.GamesA LiDAR map reveals #medievalyork fortifications that Speed captured in his stylized but s…PersonalIn-home schooling popularity slipping across stateWe were on our way out the door to see A…CultureMy project…
Similar:Google's Super Bowl Ad: A Romance in SearchI didn’t watch the game, but I did catch…AestheticsOn my fantasy #steampunk capital ship, every uniform is a full dress uniform. #blender3d #…AestheticsComputers and Writing 2020 Funding Request: SubmittedMy contributions this year are a worksho…AcademiaWork-Life Balance, from 11(!) Years AgoI think I’m managing work-life balance p…AcademiaToday's unexpected but…
Rereading “Writing to Learn,” William Zinsser’s 1988 book about helping students overcome the fear of writing. That’s how I remember the book, but it’s also about hacking the act of teaching so that we don’t inadvertently convey the notion that students who make mistakes during the writing are doing something wrong. I spend a lot…
Just in case someone out there could use it, here’s a powerful comic that emphasizes the power of sympathy (written by J. Michael Straczynski, creator of my second favorite TV show). No sunshine and rainbows, no victim-blaming, no finger-pointing — just humane compassion. (Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.) Superman on…
Students have already done a 400-word speech, a 400-word manuscript, and a 400-word typescript. I asked them to make multiple copies of their books. They wrote, cut, pasted, photocopied, folded, and bound. Our classroom today smelled cheerfully of glue. Up next: A “Futuretext” (whatever that means). Similar:Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated WritersThe AI…
Similar:Masked, vaxxed, and settling in to watch live theaterBarebones is a little black box theater,…BooksAttending Religious Perspectives on the War in Gaza. Attending Religious Perspectives on the…PersonalYeet with Emily Dickinson (according to my auto-correct}PersonalThat’s water under the bridge! Crowds of NPCs charge across, sweeping the player along. G…That’s water under the bridge! Crowds of…AestheticsLysistrata live.Current_EventsToday’s…
I made three movies with John Hughes; when they were released, they made enough of a cultural impact to land me on the cover of Time magazine and to get Hughes hailed as a genius. His critical reputation has only grown since he died, in 2009, at the age of fifty-nine. Hughes’s films play constantly on television and are even taught in schools. There is still so much that I love in them, but lately I have felt the need to examine the role that these movies have played in our cultural life: where they came from, and what they might mean now. When my daughter proposed watching “The Breakfast Club” together, I had hesitated, not knowing how she would react: if she would understand the film or if she would even like it. I worried that she would find aspects of it troubling, but I hadn’t anticipated that it would ultimately be most troubling to me. -Molly Ringwald, New Yorker
The girl spent her birthday weekend opening a show and auditioning. Similar:Screening of "Indentured" (short film the girl and I filmed in January)PersonalTwittering The MachineI’ve never been a phone guy. My vo…AcademiaI let her tend the rabbits.Great production of a very moving story….BooksColorful variations of an upholstered desk chair for my fantasy #steampunk #blender3d proj…AestheticsLiving…
Similar:The boy plays chess with his uncle before seeing The Fantasticks.PersonalStudents in “A.I. and the Future of Literacy” are presenting now in Cecilian Hall. @setonh…PersonalLining up for Honors Convocation 2016. #setonhillAcademiaHelping students find my office (St. Joseph 403)PersonalOur family has seen David Whalen in the persona of Sherlock in five or six different shows…Our family…
Similar:My Polish grandmother used to bake these cookies, which my wife picked up at a Ukranian fe… My grandmother shaped …AestheticsCaptain Gearheart inspects progress on his #neovictorian #steampunk æther cruiser. Now fea…AestheticsMaybe it wasn’t a sensible idea to hold 5 hours of student consultations on the day midter…AcademiaFinally — the pace at work subsides a…
Similar:Nerdling spots typo in space exploration textbook.PersonalFloating video windows depict the performances in my in-progress #unity3d simulation of a …PersonalAll three shows have been sold out for over a month. Opens tomorrow.DramaHappy Easter 2020 CultureMy second greenscreen test.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d-LPwKQ…CybercultureI'm not showing you my email inbox, or my laundry pile, or the state of my soul. Just…Personal
“If you find yourself agreeing with everything your news outlet says, you’re doing it wrong. If your news doesn’t challenge you, challenge your news.” CBS News veteran Dan Rather, who knows a thing or two about fake news, offers sound advice for news consumers.
Posting this mostly to prove that I can remain rational even when I encounter criticism of classic Star Trek, which certainly had its silly moments, but which offered many, many serious adult treatments of social issues. If you like your science fiction overlong and overserious, may I recommend Star Trek: The Motion Picture? 2001 is…
Similar:A selfie with a Chekov action figure after learning of Anton Yelchin's deathCurrent_EventsMy 11yo, of the opening chapters of a YA novel with an orphan heroineMy 11yo, of the opening chapters of a YA…BooksYeet with Emily Dickinson (according to my auto-correct}PersonalHere's a close look at the scepter leading the procession. #SetonHillGrad 2016 starts…PersonalIn-home schooling popularity…
I knew the command line well, and very occasionally delved to snoop around at the level of machine code. My brother showed me how to hack a game by changing the last machine code the game executed before rejecting an incorrect password, creating a version of the program that only let you proceed if you…
Don’t trust the scary bad interweb. Do trust us, your local TV talking heads, who will do all the scary thinking for you! Seeing local TV devote air time to discuss fairness and accuracy in journalism is a good thing. But when scores of newscasters read word-for-word the exact same statement, which blames social…
Similar:TWEEN GIRL: "What's a tribble?"TWEEN GIRL: “What’s a tribble?” MY GE…PersonalLast weekend I roughed out shapes to represent buildings, in order to provide some sense o…Last weekend I roughed out shapes to rep…PersonalCheckmate. Crushed again.GamesBetween static hand-coded HTML pages and modern content-management systems, there used to …When I started my blog in 1999 (by addin…CybercultureShort-range…
I don’t know the provenance of this quote attributed to Gus Speth, which affirms the role of the humanities in a STEM-obsessed world, but I did find this interview, conducted by Steve Curwood. “You know, what’s an environmental issue?” And if the answer is air pollution, water pollution, climate change…then we’re really right where we’ve…
Historian Niall Ferguson notes that Silicon Valley is not that interested in history, which is one reason why technological gurus keep making the same mistakes. Technology that decentralizes power brings its own problems. According to Ferguson: “The idea that witches live amongst us and should be burned went as viral as anything that Martin Luther…