I get a little workplace gift as the academic year closes. Similar:Looking forward to another visit to Illyria. Support humans who create art in your communi…PersonalWhere There's a Whip, There's a WayThe girl was singing lyrics she learned …AmusingFamily catch and eat octopus with six tentacles during Greek vacationI keep a silly personal blog devoted…
At the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland. She: “Use that one, because we both look derpy.” Similar:Professoring. With an(other) apple pie cupcake.I touched up and board-ified a presentat…AcademiaHaving a rough day. But in a span of about 24 hours, three former students reached out to …One former student said I’m the only adu…AcademiaAbove…
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:In November 1999, I was blogging about books, camomile tea and Skylon 4, the death of Star…In November 1999, I was blogging about…
Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:I am a dog and I am a good boy and I am prepping my Spring courses.AcademiaRecent SHU journo grad, upon the hiring of an even more recent SHU journo grad: "Many time…A couple weeks ago I posted about a rece…AcademiaAuditioning in…
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:Amenities are limited on a short range excursion craft, but we can still meet for tea in t…AestheticsYesterday my stack of unmarked assignments was about 120, so this is not bad.Nothing in this stack is…
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:#blender3d is teaching me more than I ever thought I’d need to know about roof geometry. E…#blender3d is teaching me more than I ev…PersonalMore #steampunk control panels. Recessed workstations with fold-down keyboards. #blender3d…PersonalThoughtful Gestures Sometimes Speak Louder than WordsShe ended up waiting out the light cycle…AmusingAnnie 2012 with…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Mechanical innards for a Steampunk set piece. #Blender3D #greebleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oChXOu8C…AestheticsPracticing with materials and geometry. The lamps and chair require hundreds of times as m… AestheticsGenesis (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 19) The crew de-evolve into hominids, a… Rewatching ST:TNG After Worf lose…DesignThe…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:Lego goes steampunkBe still, my nerdy heart. Steampunk —…AestheticsPopcorn MakerI’ll have to look into this. Popc…AestheticsBiggest accomplishment of the dayThe real problem is timing — they had c…Government'Fontgate': Microsoft, Wikipedia and the scandal threatening the Pakistani PMI would…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:The girl rehearsing as Babette in Stage Right's Beauty and the BeastCarolyn rehearses with Nick Lenz. Her sh…Current_EventsMore #blender3d #cgi practice. Added workstations underneath the chief engineer's sta…PersonalThe girl on Halloween 2018. (The boy and I were watching the 1931 Frankenstein at the libr…PersonalApparently I’m using boolean…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Furnished a random nook in the #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser I'm building. Not ha…PersonalMarching in a parade and watching a patriotic musicalHappy Independence Day, fellow Americans…CulturePac-Man on Atari 800 @setonhilluniversity discussion of Summer reading book #readyplayeron…PersonalI Find Myself…
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:Fall 2025 Grades Submitted!PersonalNewly acquired technology for teaching writing in the age of AI. (Not for high stakes test…AcademiaWhile at Sadecky's Puppets to record the role of Heidi, Carolyn…
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:If I am not a pedagogical god, at least my marking app has no ungraded submissions. PersonalChapbooks — the latest assignment in my “History and Future of the Book” class.Students have already done a 400-word sp…AcademiaHow are you holding up? What difficult choices have you made? How can…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Contemptible and Exploitive “Share if You’re Not Ashamed of Me” Facebook ScamsOutline: Various Facebook posts that fea…BusinessVanessa Otero's Updated Media Bias Chart (Liberal/Mainstream/Conservative; Facts/Analysis/…Otero goes into great detail describing …CultureWhat Can You Do With An English Degree? | Seton Hill UniversityOne of…