I get a little workplace gift as the academic year closes. Similar:The Daughter's 21st Birthday Current_EventsSpring 2022 Final Grades: Submitted.PersonalChecking out of @frontporchtheatricals Grand Hotel. What an experience!My brother had already planned to visit …AestheticsFriday night. What am I doing? #partylikeaprofAcademiaMy 14yo Helps Teach a Vacation Bible School Class In character as “Pontius Pilate,” wa…Personal"No,…
At the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland. She: “Use that one, because we both look derpy.” Similar:Loved part 1 of Alec Silverblatt's Mon Valley Medium. Part 2 tomorrow at 7. #pptplayt…CulturePie, anyone?PersonalThe stair railings on my #blender3d #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser need some realigning….AestheticsForgotten closet box: powder blue summer suit with a crisp 1990…
Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light…
My simulation project does not require me to master medieval daub and wattle architecture. But sadly, I now know just enough to be disappointed by this first attempt. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay #keepgoing Similar:Figured out how to configure my iPad as an external monitor for my laptop. Much more effic…CybercultureBrother Stuck in the BathroomThe girl posted…
Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:"A Mushroom at Last… A Mushroom Forever"I asked my 10yo why she was moping. “…AmusingMore #Blender3D practice. Making many objects to liven up a #steampunk environment.PersonalSalesman at Pittsburgh Public Theatre. PersonalAn important day to remember.Never again.PersonalSome editing and cropping makes this cartoon a…
Have you seen Apple’s “Crush” ad? It features a huge huge hydraulic press crushing musical instruments, art supplies, google-eyed toys, and other beloved artifacts of imagination and creativity. I remember seeing a video years ago that showed how a smartphone replaced a desktop full of tools like a calculator, notepad, rolodex, and so forth. But…
I’m still teaching journalism and my usual courses, but after 21 years I’ve stepped aside as faculty adviser to the Setonian. The student voice of the hill (founded in 1919) will continue to evolve. First published in 1919, The Setonian not only predates SHU’s journalism major, it also predates the majestic London planetrees that the…
A Brazilian couple bought a deforested ranch and spent decades planting over 2 million trees. #hope #life #stewardship #earth #ispeakforthetrees Similar:Empathy in a Downtown Sub ShopSitting in a downtown sub shop. A half d…CultureDrawing of Once on This Island by the amazing Rebecca Scassellati.PersonalPushing and pulling vertices. Components that fit together perfectly when I model…
A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump every piece of this carefully honed metal letterpress type into the river. It was an act of retribution against his business partner, Emery Walker, whom he believed was attempting to swindle him. With its extra-wide capital letters, diamond shaped punctuation and…
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The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:Sad that NASA is taking a back seat to a private company, but still nerding over an Americ…BusinessMy mother-in-law invited me to try out the 60- year-old tape machine that belonged to my f…My mother-in-law invited me to try out t…AwesomeMerry Christmas 2018PersonalEnjoyed making a 3D print of…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Today's Google Doodle is Mostly HarmlessFord Prefect kept a script of Godspell i…AestheticsAnonymous comment cards from student journalists at the end of the second week. These folks are amazing! It’s such a…AcademiaCivil Defense (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 7) O’Brien accidentally…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:Out & About: Stage Right holds its annual Heart of the Arts Gala Source: Out & About: Stage Right…CultureThoreau's Cellphone ExperimentWhen I teach “Intro to Literary Study,” …AcademiaLittle green owl, if your emotions depend this much on how…
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Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Proud of My JournosI saw several heads that I recognized, b…AcademiaOn the Trail of the Memex: Vannevar Bush, Weblogs and the Google Galaxy”Hypertext as mediated by the Web browse…CybercultureSomeone I know very well is in the trailer…
Nothing in this stack is pressing, but they do include rough drafts of final papers, so that will involve concentration and tact and empathy and time. Similar:I baked about 12 million vertices of steampunk control panel geometry into a flat plane wi…PersonalSad that NASA is taking a back seat to a private company, but still…
Here’s the underlying problem. We have an operating image of thought, an understanding of what thought is and how to make thought productive of knowledge and truth through the use of various methods. This image and its methods are, of course, products of human history. They change over time, in different cultures, and so on.…
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The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Respect the Text: Teaching Textual Primacy to Non-English MajorsIn the past, I have used the first day o…AcademiaMy 10yo Sings "Hopelessly Devoted to You"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq81GeqAY…PersonalVisiting the KLBE Air MuseumPersonalBeautiful. No Data / Lore opposition required. AestheticsThe stair railings on my #blender3d #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser need some realigning….AestheticsThree different…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Short Reports: How To Write Routine Technical DocumentsI don’t get to teach technical writing m…BusinessHenry Bemis waited his whole life to finally read a book. Listen to Lynn Venable’s story,…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc3DHCiz…BooksOn the Importance of Nonverbal Feedback in the Classroom [an Anecdote]I don’t…