She’s wearing a shirt with a frog. We are in town to see the Frog and Toad musical. This seemed logical. Similar:Boy that feels good. AcademiaWhy ‘Cats’ the Movie Fails So FlamboyantlyI can’t seem to get into superhero movie…AestheticsDog and TP WallAmusingAbove the ready-room desk is the captain's power-napping loft, because self-care is i…AestheticsTARDIS from…
At the Johnstown Flood Museum. (May 31 1889 the neglected dam at the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club broke, unleashing devastation on the valley below.) Similar:Scientists thought only male birds sang – until women joined the researchFor more than 150 years, scientists have…AcademiaChristmas 1970. I was feverish and it was unseasonably warm outside. One…
Your first #blender3d retractable #steampunk landing wheels will be your worst. But you have to start somewhere. Similar:Peter Thiel Just Got His Wish: Gawker Is Shutting DownAFTER A 14-YEAR run, Gawker.com is shutt…BusinessSnape is not amused at this year's Hogwarts Feast.PersonalWhen backwards newbie poets writeWhen backwards newbie poets write Up rh…AestheticsWhich of my colleagues wants…
My contribution to WAOB Audio Theatre’s plan to record all the proverbs. Similar:I regularly teach Uncle Tom's Cabin, but have never seen it before. BooksWhen T.S. Eliot Invented the Hipster Prufrock cannot bring himself to…CultureWhen People Only Read the Headline — Misuse of JournalismThe Society of Professional Journalists …BusinessWhen Robert Pinsky Wrote a Video…
Already facing scandal, the Washington Post‘s new-ish CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn around its dismal financial situation. […] The paper’s chief technology officer, meanwhile, announced to staffers that going forward, WaPo is to have “AI everywhere in our newsroom,” according to Tani. It’s unclear,…
Three different sized buildings. Still working on variations for the biggest one. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:Do you get your news mostly from social media? I check NPR, Drudge, and news.google.com.Do you have a regular news-consumption r…CulturePresidential RhetoricCultureJury Duty UpdateI’m a happy, responsible, and no-longer-…GovernmentIt will be harder to leave Facebook than it was to leave…
More 18th Century fun @fortligonier Similar:Unfinished pine and not so ornamented, for the workshops and service areas of my fantasy #…PersonalWhat About “The Breakfast Club”?I made three movies with John Hughes; wh…CultureThe ballroom of my #steampunk fantasy space cruiser is now a less lonely place. Thanks to watching many, many YouTub…AestheticsOnce On This Island (next…
More modular, swappable building components. I’ve got to work on the sides of these mid-sized buildings next. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:Family catch and eat octopus with six tentacles during Greek vacationI keep a silly personal blog devoted to …PersonalMy son showed me Seven Samurai. I had never seen it before. Amazing!I’m going to have to…
Enjoying a visit with an Austrian imperial commander (ahistorically but magnificently present) at Ft Ligonier. Similar:The Girl Has Started Rehearsals for PICT Classic Theatre’s Jane EyreI’ve chauffeured the girl into Pittsburg…BooksSaints and Poets, Maybe They Do SomeI wrote the following in 2004, when my s…DramaSon took out trash w/o being asked; daughter wore papercraft tophat…
More modular low-poly background buildings. I’ll do some more facades then move to the next size larger. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:Sights, Sounds, and Smells of Elizabethan TheaterSomewhere during my education I picked u…AcademiaRandom #steampunk workstation with a porthole, because why not. Most of the surfaces are f…AestheticsAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d…
Added multiple swappable upper storeys. Next I will make slightly fewer variations of a slightly larger building. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:ThinkGeek :: Star Trek Enterprise PlushSet phasers to “Squeee!” ThinkGee…AestheticsWeird History offers a good debunking of this persistent myth.PersonalThe Defector (ST:TNG Rewatch; Season Three, Episode 10) Cold War Brinksmanship, via Shakes…(Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year…
What, exactly, am I looking at here? I’m so confused. Similar:Set design for Acts II and III of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) #blender3dDesignOkay, not my most thrilling #blender3D creation, but a fantasy steampunk ship-of-the-line …DesignAs I was preparing to take this screenshot, two more papers came in.I still have odd jobs to tie up, but…
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Modular components to mix and match. The upper storeys are next. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay #gettingbetter Similar:Motivation Amid Crisis (Autotrophic Bat)As part of an independent study project,…BooksApple Hill Playhouse is closing, leaving theater group seeking new homeConfiguring socially distanced seating a…BusinessCandy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards It is a game absent strategy, requi…AestheticsFantasticks (Theatre Factory,…
The new AI advanced version of Google Search, aka Google SGE or Search Generative Experience, provides wicked smart AI answers to your queries. And if you ask it how to pass kidney stones quickly, Google will tell you to drink at least two quarts of urine every 24 hours. Source: Google SGE Recommends You Drink…
Rewatching ST:DS9 A nervous Morn sniffs a flower and presents it to a woman who accepts it warmly. At the replimat, Odo and Sisko chat about the forthcoming O’Brien baby and the risks of interspecies love. Worf’s jealously and aloofness is played for laughs against Dax’s open friendliness as they discuss a trip to Risa…
Weirdly beautiful. Wonderful bit of game history exploring why the code for the 1993 game Doom uses a slightly wrong value for pi (the programmer recalls that he misremembered the 10th digit), and a bizarre exploration of what happens to the gameplay when you deliberately change pi to different values. We all know that the…
I guess now we know why for the past decade or so Google doesn’t seem to be valuing what used to be magical about Google — the ability to rank pages so effectively and connect users to web pages that met their needs. That’s just not what’s driving Google these days. With AI search results…
Enjoyed making a 3D print of the captain’s chair from the #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult kids. Similar:A professor examines why her students seem to act so helpless (essay)This essay on college students acting he…AcademiaThe Scarlet Letter (Prime Stage)PersonalSo peaceful and majestic. Another outing with my son.PersonalA selfie with a Chekov…
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