I get a little workplace gift as the academic year closes. Similar:Colorful variations of an upholstered desk chair for my fantasy #steampunk #blender3d proj…AestheticsMe, contemplating the implications of maybe doing a socialize this weekend.PersonalI regularly teach Uncle Tom's Cabin, but have never seen it before. BooksSam Shepard Giggles, Doesn't GoogleI wrote my undergraduate honors thesis…
At the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland. She: “Use that one, because we both look derpy.” Similar:In a literature class, the author's words matter more than the author's life and times, or… Updating the graphic for a resource …AcademiaIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. @thepublicpghIn a hole in the…
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:Midterm Grades Spring 2025: Posted!I planned ahead pretty well this term. I…AcademiaIn July, 2002, I was blogging about military close reading, weblogs in…
Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:The girl's entrance as Marley's Ghost.PersonalStuffed planet Venus, made for me by my dear mother, around 1974.AestheticsStar Wars, Star Trek And V Author Ann Crispin Passes AwayAs a high school student, I wrote a fan …BooksToday's second 10sq cm of #steampunk control…
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:My daughter found where all the missing pens and pencils end upAmusingCarolyn and Nick in Beauty and the BeastAestheticsYeet with Emily Dickinson (according to my auto-correct}PersonalSpent the morning in a socially distanced recording studio.PersonalAnother 40sq…
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…
A quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier with my history-loving son. Similar:‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation As much as we like to think of our…CultureDuring a modest snowfall, I’m passing the time in a public place where someone else has tu…Stay tuned for more live footage of Stor…CultureStopping By The Woods On…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:Family catch and eat octopus with six tentacles during Greek vacationI keep a silly personal blog devoted to …PersonalHappy Sweet Sixteen, Carolyn!The girl spent her birthday weekend open…PersonalFacebook paid Teen Vogue to run a fake article praising Facebook for "helping ensure the i… After FB crowed about this…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Couples in successful relationships always use these 6 phrases: 'You'll grow stronger both…”If you and your partner regularly use t…CultureThe Rivals #PPTPlaytimeA great production of a delightful play.CultureI can’t fix this broken world but I guess I did okay using #blender3d to…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:Opening night! So great to see live local theatre.PersonalThat Class Where Stanford Profs Projected Hundreds of Zoom Students on a Video WallOf course, not all institutions happen t…AcademiaIdeology shapes our view of reality, which affects what persuades us. EthicsA…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:The Defector (ST:TNG Rewatch; Season Three, Episode 10) Cold War Brinksmanship, via Shakes…(Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break…CultureDid you see that guy’s license plate?Did you see that guy’s license plate? …AmusingJust an elegant retro keyboard for a #steampunk #cgi project. Procedural materials mean I …AestheticsI filed my…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:In Purgatory's Shadow #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 14) Garak answers a coded …Rewatching ST:DS9 Kira helps Odo re-a…DramaPhoenix journalist admits 'bad reporting' in claiming White House press censorshipNEWS FLASH: If your sources are an off-t…Current_EventsOfficial…
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:Death to high school English”There’s such an emphasis on keeping stu…AcademiaOne Does Not Simply: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Internet MemesWhen we envisioned a journal of visual…
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.…
Representing the Humanities at Accepted Students Day. Similar:Another delightful section of a #steampunk #neovictorian control panel. #design #aesthetic…AestheticsI am a dog and I am a good boy and I am prepping my Spring courses.AcademiaIf you like bloody, singing, punning demons you will love this show.If you like bloody, singing, punning dem…AmusingSimulated iceberg, preserved artifacts and…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Fall 2023 Grades: Submitted! AcademiaAfter your shift at the protocol station, join me in the officers' lounge, just up the spi… AestheticsBuilding a ridiculous amount of detail as I create tiles for distant sections of a #blende…AestheticsPractice, practice, practice. Making many things in #Blender3D. Arranging them to…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Where Professors Send Their Children to CollegeTo understand this story, you have to ke…AcademiaMy college writing students are out making short videos responding to a prompt.While my students are out of the room ma…AcademiaHarvard University says it can't afford journal publishers'…