Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:Unmarked assignments in my queue: 0This app, which sports a little red noti…AcademiaSupport the arts in your community! @geyer_pac Hello Dolly!AmusingChess again with my son.GamesOn the Virtues of a Dadsplained Literary ChildhoodThe last book I read to her was Wutherin…BooksAnother 10 sq…
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:More #steampunk control panel bits for a #neovictorian #blender3D project. I have a master…AestheticsIf I don’t stock the officers’ pub on my #steampunk #fantasy #CGI flagship, who will? (All…PersonalSeeing a different cast. Break all the…
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:Coding Bootcamps and the New For-Profit Higher EdThere are actually a number of narrative…AcademiaSome fairy tales may be 6000 years oldFairy tales are transmitted through lang…CultureHaven (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 10) When a low-stakes rom-com shows Troi's beau and …Rewatching Star Trek: The Next…
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing. Similar:When you see a show alone often you can get really good seats. Idaspe @quantumtheatreCultureAnd now that June’s almost over, it’s time to start prepping for the fall term. (Sigh.)PersonalIs this Wonka's factory, or the presidential picnic @setonhilluniversity ? PersonalLast day filming for “The First Night of Summer”PersonalCompleted uniforms…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Daughter doing a thing. Interviewing the Pittsburgh Dance Council’s Randall Miller for Bur… AcademiaChess tournament in Monroeville. Two losses, two wins.The boy’s personal best in terms of win-…CultureThe Ensigns of Command (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 2) Data plays MacGyver to sa…Rewatching…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:It’s something to do.PersonalOnce On This Island (next weekend)PersonalSome editing and cropping makes this cartoon a perennial. EthicsI created about a dozen basic building shapes, with textures to add variety. #goodenough #…I created about a dozen basic building…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:I've missed doing this! Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3d …AestheticsFrozen opens tonight. (All shows have been sold out for over a month.)DramaLook what mysteriously appeared outside my office door!PersonalMy Daughter's Synesthesia: "S" Is Always Red, and "T" Is Lime GreenAccording to a…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Drumhead (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 4, Episode 21) Federation Loyalist Tramples Justi…Rewatching ST:TNG An earnest, somewha…EthicsWatching a National Guard helicopter lift off after an EMS displayJust spending an August evening with the…PersonalThoroughly enjoying Collaborators at Quantum Theatre.PersonalWhite…
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:This Is What Summer Vacation Is For: Designing a Steampunk Airsloop with Blender 3DSummer vacation means if I am telling my…AestheticsSpring office cleaning thoughts: 1) I used to print…
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:Christmas 1970. I was feverish and it was unseasonably warm outside. One of my favorite pi…PersonalAnother fun 10 sq cm of a #neovictorian #steampunk control panel. #elegance #design #aesth…AestheticsLining up for Honors Convocation 2016. #setonhillAcademiaMy laptop hard drive is full & my comfort-food shelf is emptyMy laptop drive…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:Spotted: the North American tree daughter.NatureMy 4Cs StoryI chaired a session on Friday, and gave …AcademiaI played hooky from work to see Wild Robot with my familyI played hooky to go see Wild Robot this…AestheticsReception after faculty workshop. #partylikeaprofessorPersonalUnder my academic robes… photographer vest with 3 frozen…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Happy retirement celebration to two dear colleagues.AcademiaGoodby big Android… hello little budget iPhone SE 3rd.I just removed from my syllabus template…AcademiaStick to facts, but write news your readers will actually want to read. Students who put a lot of effort int…AcademiaWhy…
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:Unearthing a Long Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by…Not only is this a fantastic story about…AcademiaI played hooky from work to see Wild Robot with my familyI played hooky to go see…