Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:Beautiful. No Data / Lore opposition required. AestheticsEpilogue to Rossum's Universal RobotsMy big finish as Alquist in a Zoom-based…DramaEnjoyed making a 3D print of the captain’s chair from the #steampunk bedtime stories I use…Enjoyed making a 3D print of the captain…PersonalAnother 10…
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:Scratch 3.0 beta is available. Try out the text-to-speech blocks!Personal“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Very glad I got my son interested in 2001: …PersonalDress Rehearsal for "My Son Pinocchio"My wife, daughter,…
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:“Waiting for Life” (Once on This Island)https://youtu.be/NeoVD3prQWYPersonal"If It's Not Baroque, Don't Fix It" Cogsworth Broadway Supercuthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx6t-pef…AmusingNew Facebook Notifications Alert Users When They Not Currently Looking At Facebook “We hope these helpful new alerts will …AmusingEvery day on my fantasy #neovictorian interplanetary cruiser features glowing green…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:Enjoying more live theater.CultureThe Problems of Real-Time Feedback in Teaching WritingSometimes my students get nervous becaus…AcademiaLooking forward to more live local theater. (Support the arts!)PersonalThe girl told me to post this with the caption, “The Addams Family Goes to the Big League….PersonalRecording Christmas Stories for WAOB Audio TheatreFor…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Once on This Island (Stage Right! Greensburg; May 11 & 12 Promo Video)The girl plays Ti Moune in “Once on This…CultureDear daughter, let Miley Cyrus be a lesson to youI am intrigued by the possibility that M…CultureThe iPad Falls Short of Expectations—But…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:The neglected history of videogames for the blindWhat kind of a “videogame” has no video?…CybercultureReal college classes have writing assignments and required reading.While I can imagine teaching a course th…AcademiaBird flight simulator. The boy goes for altitude and…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:Chess with my son. As usual, it didn't go well for me.GamesYour first attempt at a medieval gate and city walls will be your worst. #blender3d #medie…Your first attempt at a medieval gate an…PersonalOkay, not my most thrilling #blender3D creation, but a fantasy steampunk ship-of-the-line …DesignLysistrata live.Current_EventsSportsWorks…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Tell Me a Smart Story: On Podcasts, Videos, and Websites as Writing AssignmentsIt does take longer to evaluate student …AcademiaI know that look.This was my 9yo today. She doesn’…AmusingStunning, bleak unemployment chart from the front page of…
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:Set Phasers to Teach!Fans of Star Trek have thus already been…AcademiaPersuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos and Kairos Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos a…AcademiaI’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education. AI has…
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:More details in the powder room of my villain's lair. #Blender3DAestheticsThe girl sank her brother's last ship with the homophonous cry "I-1."AmusingThe girl will be performing as the Dew Drop Fairy in the Dec 8 evening performance of The …AestheticsEaster Blessings 2021 Current_EventsThe daughter is home from London.PersonalTouch…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Breakfast Battle from "The Miracle Worker" (Pamela Lee as Annie Sullivan and Carolyn Jerz …Update: Here’s a clip of the whole break…CultureHow to interact with the introverted…My daughter spends a lot of time with he…DesignVisiting the KLBE Air MuseumPersonalCelebration of Writing — a big presentation day for…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Memorizer (Memorization Tool)A Midsummer castmate shared a link to th…Cyberculture5 Ways to Avoid Being Rude (According to 100-Year-Old Etiquette Rules)If you are a gentleman, never lower the …CultureThis Is How My Composition & Culture Class Preps an Oral PresentationInstead of delivering a formal…
After learning of his AIDS diagnosis, artist Keith Haring created the work, “Unfinished Painting” (1989), which is mostly a blank canvas, with streaks that evoke his own interrupted, incomplete life. Someone who thought it was “so sad” that the painting was unfinished used AI to “complete what he couldn’t finish.” Needless to say, the bot…
Seton Hill students Emily Vohs, Elizabeth Burns, Jake Carnahan-Curcio and Carolyn Jerz in a scene from “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.” This weekend only… opens tonight! Order tickets online at http://www.setonhill.edu/tickets by phone at 724-552-2929, or by mail at SHUPAC Box Office, Seton Hill University, 1 Seton Hill Drive, Greensburg, Pa., 15601-1599. Box Office Hours are…
Inspiration can come to those with the humblest heart. Caedmon the Cowherd believed he had no talent for singing, but the voice in his dream encouraged him. Listen to what he does with it in, “The Cowherd Who Became a Poet,” by James Baldwin. A Production of We Are One Body® Audio Theatre. Read by…
Dr. David von Schlichten honors the spectrum of motivations (not always financial) featured during Seton Hill‘s “Celebration of Scholarship.” Similar:On 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…CybercultureHow Common Core Testing Damaged High School…