In the poem “Imma Let You Integrate Quotations!” by Melvin Middleschool-Writer, it talks about a writing style that wastes words. “Those long quotations, dropping awkward into the essay / Hijack your thoughts / Like a Kanye who graciously accepts a microphone from Taylor Swift / So he can confidently mansplain it all.” This quote means that students who interrupt their…
Similar:A little better all the time.A little better all the time.PersonalA Conversation with Dennis Jerz, Actor — WAOB Audio Theatrehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU6vs0ZB…DramaPrime Stage Theatre Makes A Statement With Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” For Carolyn Jerz, who plays Viol…CultureContagion (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 11)Picard faces aggressive Romulans and an …DesignFamily ( #StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Four, Episode 2)…
Similar:My son teaching chess to a young pupilCultureOverheard: "This is the best show I've ever seen at the Geyer" and "Who IS that girl playi…Gasps from the audience, shouts of “No!”…CultureMy Anti-Linkbait Pledge: Cynical Overhyping vs. Simply Being OnlineWhen I find something interesting that a…CultureThe Problems of Real-Time Feedback in Teaching WritingSometimes my students get…
The Washington Post, which was one of about a dozen news outlets that Trump banned from his campaign events for a few months this summer, has released a Chrome browser plugin that adds Post-sponsored commentary into Trump’s Twitter feed. Sometimes the Post says the commentary will simply add context, but they are announcing it as…
Similar:Happy St. Crispin's DayHere’s my rendition of the famous “band …CultureCarolyn as Maria in West Side StoryPersonalLanguage Log » 25 Questions for Teaching with "Word Crimes"A little perspective is good. So is genr…AcademiaA day may come when the strength of the girl fails and she must make more than one trip to…PersonalA trend story about…
Similar:Bryan A. Louiselle, 1966-2022 (musician, composer, orchestrator, musical director)I was Mayor Shinn to Bryan’s Harold Hill…CultureMy parents doing their daily crossword. I’m spending a few days visiting my …PersonalMemorizer (Memorization Tool)A Midsummer castmate shared a link to th…CyberculturePrime Stage Theatre to end 2018-2019 season with Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night, May 3–1…2019 Pittsburgh Public Theater Shakespea…CultureWhen you need…
My family and I are in the voice cast of the short audio play, “Christmas Letters.” Similar:How Not to Be a Jackass at Your Next Academic ConferenceOkay, I confess, I was once in the audie…AcademiaRehearsing for Little Women Tuesday (Carolyn plays Amy)PersonalLast event of a busy day downtown. #AgathieChristie #murderontheorientexpressAestheticsAnother square of #steampunk control panel…
Update, June 2020: See Vanessa Otero Ad Fontes Media Updated Media Bias Chart –6.0 Vanessa Otero created an impressive chart that visualizes the problem with a simplistic “real news / fake news” dichotomy. News that skews left or right can still be valuable, and news that scrupulously avoids bias can still be vacuous clickbait. While…
So Khan Academy now has a grammar unit. Similar:My project starts to get clunky while managing 1000 NPCs but I think if I split them up in…My project starts to get clunky while ma…AestheticsStack of wooden desk trays with metal supports. #Blender3D. Normal map, glossy map; mahoga…My goal in trying to do an object each…
Grades submitted. I’ll reward myself with some fun. Then it’s time to set up for my JTerm course. Similar:Celebration of Writing Fall 2019PersonalThis is about half of the #steampunk control panel details I've created in the past m…AestheticsIt's exam week, and at the moment I have exactly one unmarked assignment (for a paper due …It’s…
Similar:First Day in the Theatre for Twelfth Night (May 3-12) Daughter: (is sad her “first day in …CultureHere I am sketching spaceships like I’m 12 again. I feel like re-reading the novelization …AestheticsThe girl has gotten progressively more dedicated over the past few days.When you’re a homeschool parent, you go …AestheticsAs Twinkle Twinkle is to…
Similar:This winter I changed my weekday alarm tone to chirping birds. This winter I changed my weekday ala…AestheticsThe Portable Writing desk — the Victorian laptopFocusing on the materiality of writing, …AestheticsA stranger approached me today.A stranger approached me today. I was a…CultureI let her tend the rabbits.Great production of a very moving story….BooksA new headshot…
The proliferation of fake and hyperpartisan news that has flooded into Americans’ laptops and living rooms has prompted a national soul-searching, with liberals across the country asking how a nation of millions could be marching to such a suspect drumbeat. But while some Americans may take the stories literally — like the North Carolina man…
Trump never told People magazine that Republicans are dumb, Sarah Palin never said “I can see Russia from my house,” and when Obama said “gotta have ribs and pussy too” in 1995 he was reading a line spoken by a character in his book. Sharing miscaptioned photos that criticize public figures or organizations for things…
I use the term “fake news” to refer to doctored social media posts that were never written by the purported authors, or real photos taken out of context and given new captions. Sharing such posts because they flatter your pre-conceived notions of the targets contributes to the devaluing of the truth. Politicians have put spins…
Accomack County Public Schools announced Tuesday that “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” will immediately returned to school library shelves. The books were temporarily suspended on November 29, after a complaint was filed….The Accomack County School Board voted on Tuesday to permanently reinstate the two novels. “These novels are treasures of American…
Trump senior adviser’s son, who used a transition team email but had, according to Pence, “no involvement in the transition whatsoever,” is now, according to a transition team spokesman, no longer part of the transition team. According to two other transition officials, the reason this person with a transition team email address who was never…
Carolyn (doing a really cool dance move): Hey Dad, if I ever have to play an awkward nerd trying to act really cool, *this* is how I will dance. Me: Oh. Similar:Great energy at our Comp & Culture poster paper session. So proud of these students an…AcademiaArsenal of Freedom (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 21)With…
The school was plagued by violence and disorder from the start, and by 2010 it was rank [sic] in the bottom five of all public schools in the state of Massachusetts. That was when Andrew Bott — the sixth principal in seven years — showed up, and everything started to change. “We got rid of the…
Facebook’s Patrick Walker assured a room full of journalists that Zuck’s strategy to combat fake news will work. The plan (released previously by FB): stronger detection, easy reporting, third party verification, warnings, related articles quality, disrupting the economy of fake news, and listening. Also speaking at the conference was Espin Egil Hansen, who in September…