Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:A snifter of brandy helps a supporting character deliver exposition & set up for a nic…PersonalI broke the garage door when I left for work this morning. Fixed it when I got home.PersonalAcademic robe, Is this the year I finally send you…
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:Pushing and pulling vertices. Components that fit together perfectly when I model them in …AestheticsIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. @thepublicpghIn a hole in the ground there lived a ho…BooksSymbiosis (TNG…
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:Okay yes, this affirmation does matter to me and it will go into my annual review for next…Marked 832 AP English essays in a week o…AcademiaGo not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.PersonalI create five color variations of each #blender3d building…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Looking forward to this! @thepublicpghLooking forward to this! @thepublicpghDramaBenedict XVI (Pontifex) on TwitterJohn Paul II was a master of communicati…Current_EventsCanada's Globe and Mail Uses Expandable Inline Meta-articles to Explain Its CoverageJournalism matters. Educated citizens wh…CybercultureGames Without Frontiers: Victory in VomitWired reviews Mirror’s…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:And so it begins.BooksVersu's Epilogue: How an Interactive Fiction Pioneer's 15 Year Project Ended Up in Limbo a…However there’s a particularly sad tale …BusinessJaz Parkinson "Colour Signatures"Amusing visual representations of the co…AestheticsThe Psychology of Getting More Done In…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:I’m fairly satisfied with this version of a medieval building trimsheet. (Source photo is …I’m fairly satisfied with this version o…AestheticsI broke the garage door when I left for work this morning. Fixed it when I got home.PersonalMy brother is visiting to play a game of chess…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:That felt sooo good!PersonalSpring 2025 Final Grades Submitted!AcademiaSports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated WritersThe AI authors’ writing often sounds lik…CybercultureAny pasta can become a pasta salad when the office microwave stops working!CultureThinking about the new semester…
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:MLA In-text citations: Writing that got you through high school won’t do in college. MLA In-text cita…AcademiaSmalltalk through masks is hard; I really was glad to see so many…
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:I baked about 12 million vertices of steampunk control panel geometry into a flat plane wi…PersonalNo filter October mist as I walked up from the parking lot. Not a bad view. AestheticsMore #Blender3D practice. Making many objects to liven up a #steampunk environment.PersonalCarolyn as Cosette in the…
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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:What Modern Humans Can Learn From The Neanderthals' Extinction“You don’t like to think about a holocau…CultureFall 2023 Grades: Submitted! AcademiaThe Host (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 4, Episode 23) Dr. Beverly Crushes on a SymbiontRewatching ST:TNG Trek…