Similar:Really enjoyed Prime Stage Theater’s video presentation of Mockingbird.Obviously I would have preferred to see …AestheticsSymbiosis (TNG Rewatch, Season 1 Episode 22)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…CultureWhile searching my bag for a cable, I found an unexpected wealth of food-substitute items.AmusingTheir faces when another dad joke drops. See The Fantasticks today at 2 or…
Similar:Looking forward towards the wardroom (center) and the officers' pub, the Gear and Hea…AestheticsMask up.PersonalI'd like to speak to the manager. Yes, I'll wait right here. The manager is of course somewhere e…AestheticsYes, I do feel rather awesome right now.Lost brand-new earbuds. Reached in pocke…PersonalCarolyn and spider friends performing "Power" from Stage Right's Sleeping B…PersonalMe…
Similar:Destroying trust in the media, science, and government has left America vulnerable to disa…From The Brookings Institution (non-prof…CultureI'm not showing you my email inbox, or my laundry pile, or the state of my soul. Just…PersonalStandardized testing: I opted my kids out. The schools freaked out. Now I know why.And so, on the first day of…
Day 1 Today was my first full shipwrecked day after our ship hit some sharp rocks a half mile offshore. What started out as a team-building trip to the Cook Islands has turned into a true nightmare. #OnlySurvivor #PleaseSendHelp #SurvivalSundays #HolisticRescueMarketing —McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Similar:Take my feedback if you want to pass.As my students in…
Hum de dum. Not paying any attention to current events at all, just thinking about possibly teaching Richard III in my Shakespeare class this fall. Oh, look, Dwight Goodyear posted commentary on Agnes Heller’s book The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History. How interesting. You know, to those of us who care about…
My “Media Aesthetics” students worked with students from Elizabeth Jacobs’s “Social Psychology” class, where students wrote editorials and designed infographics about cognitive dissonance. My students helped the psychology students with their drafts, then chose essays they thought had a good chance of going viral, and used WordPress, Facebook, Twitter and Hootsuite to publicize those selections. Similar:A Matter…
Similar:FULL BLOOM at Latrobe’s Olde Main, Aug 30-Sep 2.CultureWhy do academics dress so badly? (Answer: they are too happy)I used to wear a suit and tie when I tau…AcademiaMe: Carolyn, are you ok? Carolyn:Just reminding myself that I am a gift.AmusingSymbiosis (TNG Rewatch, Season 1 Episode 22)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…CultureThe daughter introduced me…
I loved listening to her practice the “Money, money, money, money, money” monologue in her mirror. Similar:▶ Taylor Mali on "What Teachers Make"I find that re-watching this every year …CultureI spent Thanksgiving break building a #trimsheet for steampunk control panels, because why…AestheticsBaltimore Residents Urged To Stay Indoors Until Social Progress Naturally Takes Its Course…“As we…
A Republican Facebook friend posted a link to this article, which acknowledges that there’s plenty to dislike about Trumpcare, but challenges the truth behind some of the statements that are driving online outrage. Remember the Trump administration’s strategy — do something that invokes outrage, pounce and call it “fake news” as soon as someone exaggerates…
Similar:There’s Something Off About LED BulbsWhen I’m stressed, or I feel life is spi…AestheticsArsenal of Freedom (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 21)With an A-plot that comments on the Cold…CultureJohn Speed’s 1611 map of #medievalyork features a “scale of paces.” My #unity3d placeholde…John Speed’s 1611 map of #medievalyork f…PersonalCan't upload photos to Facebook from my MacBookI…
An interesting piece. Easy-to-learn hypertext authoring tools like Twine and TextureWriter have encouraged many of my students to give this kind of storytelling a try. As longtime experimenters and scholars in interactive narrative who are now building a new academic discipline we call “computational media,” we are working to create new forms of interactive storytelling,…
In the early 20th century, print journalists often identified with the working class. Small newspapers were created by and read by people who live and often grew up in the same area. Online jobs tend to clump around big cities, meaning that reporters increasingly live in a media bubble that isolates them from the life…
Similar:How to interact with the introverted…My daughter spends a lot of time with he…DesignChess with my son. As usual, it didn't go well for me.GamesWhy ‘Cats’ the Movie Fails So FlamboyantlyI can’t seem to get into superhero movie…AestheticsEmpathy in a Downtown Sub ShopSitting in a downtown sub shop. A half d…CultureChristmas 1970. I was feverish…
Members of the Herald’s editorial guild are boycotting Twitter this week after reporter Chris Villani was suspended without pay for three days for violating the company’s social media policy. Villani’s misstep? An April 20 tweet stating, “The notes found in #AaronHernandez cell were letters to his daughter & fiancee, saying he loved them & would see…
Similar:Amenities are limited on a short range excursion craft, but we can still meet for tea in t…AestheticsOn this date in 1999 I first added a date to the list of web links I had been curating. (T…On this date in 1999, I first dated an e…CybercultureShort-range #neovictorian excursion craft, now with glowing power orbs!…
Adolescence took a long time to be invented at all, and it took an even longer time to become a somewhat stable archetype. It’s only in recent human history that people a) live long enough for adolescence to be a different physical experience than adulthood; and b) live in a society that indulges an extended…
I’m not saying that the Upward Bound kids deserved to be punished because application writers didn’t follow formatting instructions. I am saying that formatting matters. When your professors put “formatting” on the rubric, they aren’t simply trying to make your life difficult. For the want of double spacing in a small section of a 65-page…
My daughter will be playing Dolly Levi Friday night. Similar:Dani Girl (Geyer/13Players)https://youtu.be/5k06Z1_azMo Dani Gir…CultureHomage to PoeMichael Dirda offers a thoughtful assess…BooksStudents present their research for the Celebration of Writing @setonhilluniversityPersonalIT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE — Berkeley Rep audio productionSinclair Lewis’s 1935 anti-fascist novel…CultureOn a little afternoon walk with my son.HealthThe Outsiders — four sold-out weekday matinees;…
Mix the paranoia of 1984, the absurdity of Brazil, the pathos of Chekhov, the social commentary of Moliere, and a healthy dose of “When Mike and Carol swap jobs, the Bradys are on a collision course for wackiness.” Quantum Theatre’s “Collaborators” is a fascinating study of power, integrity, and compromise. (Sound designer Joe Pino directed…
Similar:The Mom From The Cat in the Hat Finally SpeaksAs a toddler, my son once methodically s…AmusingFacebook paid Teen Vogue to run a fake article praising Facebook for "helping ensure the i… After FB crowed about this sup…BusinessIt’s something to do.PersonalYes I do own a copy of the 1975 Star Trek Enterprise blueprints, but this…