Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:Masked up, so I don't infect you, in case you are in a vulnerable group. Feeling healthy. …CultureFamily, I Hear You. I Love You. Go Away. This Weekend, I'm Marking Papers.No, I don’t want to see the new jacket y…AcademiaI'm Gradually Losing…
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:Here for the daughter.AcademiaWaiting for the house to open. @prime_stagePersonalWe Tried to Do Vanlife Right. It Broke Us Down.Shortly before I got married, my sister …CultureWeird History offers a good debunking of this persistent myth.PersonalFaculty/staff…
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:The Duolingo owl has been judging my German every day for the last year.EducationLego goes steampunkBe still, my nerdy heart. Steampunk —…AestheticsCan you really say you’ve designed #neovictorian uniforms for a fantasy #steampunk cruiser…AestheticsPractice, practice, practice. Making many things in #Blender3D. Arranging them to make a t… …
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:National Dance DayIn the restaurant parking lot after dinn…CultureFraternity Announces "Legal Action" Against Rolling Stone”The Rolling Stone article viewed by mil…AcademiaAnnoyed and Bored by Lazy Anachronisms in The Great Gatsby MovieI just watched the recent Great Gatsby m…AestheticsBehind the bar in the…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:Digital Humanities: A DefinitionDoes the world need another working defi…AcademiaBrought my in-progress #blender3d project into the #unity3d gaming engine. Plenty of frust… AestheticsCreate Joy with Content Management System Hexcodes for Canvas LMSI spent about 30 seconds eyeballing the…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:Letter of Recommendation: Fanny PacksWhat other accessory ensures the safety …CultureCliffhanger from ST:TNG Best of Both Worlds. I haven't made time to watch TNG in probably …The cliffhanger for Star Trek: The Next …HistoryWhen you accidentally send a "Dear Satan" letter.My family and I are in the…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Time’s Arrow, Part 2 (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 1) Data (fate preordained)…Rewatching ST:TNG Some time has passe…Culture"Oliver Twist" is a story of redemption for PICT Classic Theatre.Carolyn started rehearsals for PICT Clas…BooksVoiceover artist Gayanne Potter…
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:New home office setup. I was delighted to find those little storage boxes that fit in a ni…Personal'Jane Austen, Game Theorist' by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Is a Joke When…
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:Coming of Age (TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 18)Rewatching ST:TNG A character-heavy e…MediaMy colleague Dr. Cusick bakes Irish soda bread every year to honor Saint Patrick's Day.AcademiaNarrating "A Christmas Carol" for WAOB Audio Theatre. (The four episodes will be released …DramaThe daughter looks stunning in pink. AestheticsHello, I’m…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:The Last Jedi: Oh, the Feels.No spoilers here. (I managed to avoid al…MediaRandom eye candy for props in my #Blender3D #retrotech project. Turned two circle logos in…PersonalCelebration of Writing Fall 2018PersonalIt not only went VROOM, it carried chunky plastic letters that could *spell* VROOM.Tonight, when I got…
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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:Indiscretion #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 5) Kira teams up with a rival to tr…Rewatching ST:DS9 New-to-me episode i…EmpathyScat "boop oop a doop" and variations (Esther Lee Jones, Helen Kane, Betty Boop, Marilyn M… A…