You won’t usually catch me saying anything nice about Microsoft. (Ok, Flight Simulator was good.) A few days ago when life was a little more stressful than usual, I found myself nearly overwhelmed by what should have been a routine editing task. Then I stumbled across MS-Words’s View->Focus mode, which hides most of the intrusive…
Similar:Lysistrata live.Current_EventsOut of the Zuckersphere, (back) into the BlogosphereThis is why I still blog. While commerci…AcademiaEnjoying some sibling nerdtime with Lego The Hobbit.GamesMeet the 12-year-old boy who makes games instead of going to schoolTurning on the anti-clickbait filter: Ho…CultureI’m not making a serious attempt at recreating specific architecture, just trying to conve…I’m not making a…
Fake news works on our emotions, usually by stoking our fears or confirming our biases. Real news relies on verifiable facts, including emotions only by attributing them to credible sources, and placing those emotions in context. We help spread fake news when we let our emotions guide our reactions, rather than taking a minute to…
This review of a book about early photography offers some thoughtful reflections on how technology has been frequently used to distort the truth rather than reveal it. It’s a quote — I’d never seen it before — from Franz Kafka: “Nothing can be so deceiving as a photograph.” It immediately caught my interest because it…
Here is the transcript the girl provided, of her pun battle with my former student and Stage Right’s resident lyricist & character actor Greg Kerestan.
Similar:Misleading to suggest that because I have nothing left to mark that I have nothing to do, …PersonalVote for Carolyn's Headshot — Round 2 Vote for Carolyn’s Headshot — Round…AestheticsSquirrel noisily enjoying a nut alongside the Grotto drive at Seton Hill.PersonalSpring 2024 Grades: SubmittedSpring 2024 Grades: SubmittedPersonalDean Jones Dead: Disney Actor Was 84″The Love…
Similar:Desk blotters, with procedural leather and wood materials by Blendermada. #blender3dAestheticsThis was a rough term. Still have a winter term course to publish before midnight but time…AcademiaManti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The Colleg…Great example of investigative journalis…Current_EventsMy student journos are meming it like bosses.PersonalInteractive Adventure SongIt seems YouTube will…
I recently spoke with the Sarah Sutton, General Manager of the Walmart on Victory Boulevard, and she’d like me to express to you all that while she’s still willing to permit any adjunct faculty members in need of shelter to sleep in the loading bay behind the store, trapping and consuming the seagulls that flock…
Similar:Carolyn's performance as Ariel #bardinbloom @ThePublicPGHSo good to see her preforming live on st…CultureThe truth hits Thorvald. Loved PPT PlayTime’s online presentation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s Hous…PersonalChilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend.Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small f…AestheticsMy Review of the Charlottesville Tryout of "A Few Good Men" 30 Years AgoA librarian…
Similar:The Complete Deaths: all of the Bard's 74 scripted deaths in one new play.Over the past four centuries, the brutal…AmusingShe was a musical ingenue Sunday, filmed a slasher movie past midnight Monday, and was pre…AcademiaAnother section of #steampunk control panel. #neovictorian #design #aesthetics #blender3d …AestheticsThe girl’s first day on set filming for “The First Day…
RCA’s console never rivaled the impact of Atari’s VCS, Magnavox’s Odyssey, or Mattel’s Intellivision, and few people remember it today. But the true story behind it is fascinating. Its underlying technology began in 1969 as a personal computer developed at home by one man with a vision, Joseph Weisbecker. His daughter, Joyce, ended up being…
Similar:Nerd-buddies”He likes Lord of the Rings, Star Wars *…BooksPfully Pfizered and pfeeling pfine so pfar. Current_EventsDowntime with the boy.PersonalI am very happy for these folks, who spent 20 or so years tweaking an insanely complex, co… AwesomeAll three shows have been sold out for over a month. Opens tomorrow.DramaHappy Easter 2016Personal
Today’s class on The Winter’s Tale was very much the kind of class that I hoped for when I was an undergraduate thinking, “Maybe I’d like to be an English professor.” Leontes and Polyxines in “The Winter’s Tale” grew up together, but for no good reason other than it sets the plot in motion, Leontes…
By the time you finish reading this article, the upstart sports news outlet called The Athletic probably will have hired another well-known sportswriter from your local newspaper. In a couple of years, once The Athletic has completed its breakneck expansion, perhaps that newspaper’s sports section will no longer exist. —The New York Times Similar:Literature Is…
Similar:Saints and Poets, Maybe They Do SomeI wrote the following in 2004, when my s…DramaHanging with the rude mechanicals @setonhilluniversityA Midsummer Night’s Dream.CulturePublic service announcement! If you are feeling awkward at a social event and you see me t…AwesomeMy mom’s Lionel train set (a gift from her father in 1948) had been in storage…
Similar:Me loving my birthday truck, c. 1971. I adored this truck, and spellin…DesignWhy our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreamingNeil Gaiman tells us why books matter:Wh…BooksMove Along Home (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 10) Hopscotch Cringe Shenanigan…Rewatching ST:DS9 I was kind of dread…CultureUrsula K. Le Guin: A Personal Take on Go Set a…
Saving this for next term’s “History and Future of the Book” course. Students said they preferred and performed better when reading on screens. But their actual performance tended to suffer. For example, from our review of research done since 1992, we found that students were able to better comprehend information in print for texts that were…
Updated an older instructional handout with a bunch of new examples and some fancy red/green color coding. To write a news story, you’ll use many of the skills that help you write good personal essays; however, the two kinds of writing have important differences, so what counts as “good writing” is also different. English Essay:…
Dinosaurs evolved into birds. Not all of them, of course. Birds are so much a part of our environment that we barely notice them. I’ve said the same about weblogs. Monetized and platformized and app-ified, the basic functions of blogging live on — a reverse-sorted stream of posts, a mechanism to engage with visitors to…
Similar:‘Chronicles of Prydain’ Movie: Disney Acquires Rights to DevelopWe went through a Lloyd Alexander phase …BooksWhat Critics of Student Writing Get Wrong [T]o improve as writers, student…AcademiaBeautiful. No Data / Lore opposition required. AestheticsRevision: Don't just wash off your old sedan. Turn it into a pink monster truck or a solar…If your writing teacher lets…