I get a little workplace gift as the academic year closes. Similar:"Dammit Mom, I'm a daughter, not a theoretician!"”Dammit Mom, I’m a daughter, not a theor…AmusingWhat Khan Academy's Fun, Free Learning Empire Has to Do with Dystopian Social Control Over the Christmas break, I’ve been ch…AcademiaEclipse!PersonalCarolyn at about 7yo drew Titania in love with Bottom. #tbt #midsummerArtMerry…
At the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland. She: “Use that one, because we both look derpy.” Similar:Another corner building. Designed and textured. Needs an interior. #blender3d #design #ae…Another corner building. Designed and te…AestheticsWooden document holders. Pretty routine, but practice is practice. #Blender3DPersonalThe girl was cast as Luciana (the younger sister) in The Comedy…
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:Practicing with materials and geometry. The lamps and chair require hundreds of times as m… AestheticsThe Post-Coding Generation?I knew the command line well,…
Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:When she's grown and flown, I will miss the thick deposit of glitter in my back seat.When she’s grown and flown, I will miss …Aesthetics"Godspell" is sure to entertain audiences of all ages and faithsThat’s me in the white shirt, with 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:A day may come when the strength of the girl fails and she must make more than one trip to…PersonalThe girl enjoyed seeing Alex Noble and the rest of the cast of Sive. (Last shows,…
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:Interior Detail of Steampunk Convertible Gazebo Spent much of Tuesday wrestling with co…AestheticsMy student journos are meming it like bosses.PersonalJust an elegant retro keyboard for a #steampunk #cgi project. Procedural materials mean I …AestheticsThe boy wins once again. #chessGamesCarolyn appears as homeschooled teenager "Carolyn." Free holiday show Tuesday…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Rapture #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 10) Sisko's "visions" complicate politic…Rewatching ST:DS9 Kira is moved by th…DramaImpact of One-size-fits-all Web DesignI don’t particularly miss the splash lan…BusinessPrepare for the Ultimate GaslightingThoughtful essay from Julio Vincent Gamb…BusinessBy Inferno's Light #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:Hide and Q (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 9) Riker, buffed up by Q, grants desires of the…Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…AmusingApparently I’m using boolean modifiers to carve out negative-space greebles for a texture …AestheticsThe girl is…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:After my conference talk, a post-audition, pre-Jane-Eyre-performance dinner with the girl.PersonalStar Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch I was in college and grad school dur…CultureAnother day, another 10 square centimeters of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blende…AestheticsI Love Books: A Campus Library EvolvesI love books. I love smelling them,…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Let’s Make the Academic Job Market More HumaneIt’s been decades since I’ve had the “I’…AcademiaTonight's Supermoon.AestheticsMixed ReceptionThis activity is set in a research group…AcademiaHow are you holding up? What difficult choices have you made? How can we…
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 didn't exactly set out to achieve this goal, but it's not hard to do the minimum to keep…EducationAnother very rough day. Students are cheerful and patient, obviously happy…
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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