I get a little workplace gift as the academic year closes. Similar:Student journalists assemble! The Setonian club fair table is looking spiffy.PersonalTo all these tools I've loved before…While cleaning out my desk at home I add…AestheticsAnd you thought your last teleconference was rough!PersonalA #steampunk control panel in context. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dartAestheticsThe boy approved of…
At the airport, sending the daughter off to Ireland. She: “Use that one, because we both look derpy.” Similar:I'm not tired of @shu.pippin yet! Final performance is sold out.PersonalBeautifying the exterior of the fantasy cruiser from the bedtime stories I used to tell my…PersonalNew CarWednesday morning my resourceful brother…BusinessLoved part 1 of Alec Silverblatt's Mon…
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:Obamacare's broken website cost more than LinkedIn, Spotify combinedMuch of the criticism of Healthcare.gov …CultureT-Shirts for student journalists who recently leveled up to…
Hooded faculty and staff are loaded into the launch tube below Sullivan. @setonhilluniversity Similar:And again I ush.PersonalThe barbican at Mickelgate was pulled down in the 1800s but I made a rough approximation f…The barbican at Mickelgate was pulled do…PersonalOkay, not my most thrilling #blender3D creation, but a fantasy steampunk ship-of-the-line …DesignGetting ready to run 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:Fantasticks (Theatre Factory, Oct 18-27) AestheticsShe feels pretty at the dress rehearsal (opens Thursday)On the ride home, in the middle of a spi…AmusingThis is the first time during the pandemic that we’ve brought this game…
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:On Her One Free Day Between Two Shows…[View the story “On Her One Free Day Bet…DesignIn July 1999, I was blogging about Dante's ashes, Apollo 11, gender-neutral language, and …In July, 1999, I was blogging about: …CultureSold out show today. Carolyn gets tomorrow off, then a final week.PersonalThe…
So I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschristi Similar:Mars Is a Hellhole: Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity.Some of Elon Musk’s stunts have caught m…BusinessWhy I Resist Web Redesigns (And Maybe You Do, Too)Words many of us never want to hear: “It…AestheticsYouTube Now: Why We…
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater project. #blender3d Similar:A Tribute to a Journalism FavoriteAs my news writing students work on seve…AestheticsJust wrote the first ending to my in-progress journalism game (created in Twine)3,486 words, 120 links, 57 lexias, and c…DesignThe problem I just learned about calls…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters. Similar:Little Women (Thurs-Sun)PersonalBrass desk lamp, with translucent green shade and glowing light bulb filament. #blender3dPersonalAnother section of a #steampunk control panel for a texture atlas. #blender3d #blender3dar…AestheticsStar Trek: Voyager Premiered 20 Years AgoI remember wanting to like Voyager a lot…CultureMy English major skills crushed the girl in…
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve this later. #blender3d Similar:Academic robe, Is this the year I finally send you out to be cleaned? Nah, Febreeze is goo…PersonalGround-nesting Yellowjacket WaspsWhile my 16yo son was mowing the lawn wi…CultureSnowfall at the White House (Official White House Photo by…
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:Uneasy Lies the Head — Tyrant: Shakespeare on PowerJohn Stubbs reviews Stephen Grenblatt’s …AcademiaHow to interact with the introverted…My daughter spends a lot of time with he…DesignIt will be…
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:Beauty and the Beast (St. Vincent Summer Theatre)The girl (blue skirt and pigtails), who …Current_EventsAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk #neovictorian control panel. Not the end product. Just prac…AestheticsAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #design #aesthetics #blender3d #blender3dar…AestheticsUnmarked papers today. How it started, how it's…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Other than #StarTrek memes, my favorite part of the web is how it's a rhetorical battlegro…Saturday, Donald Trump tweeted that he k…Current_EventsTraces of ScribesBook historian Irene O’Daly notes that t…AcademiaThe Day I Stopped Saying ‘Hurry Up’Adorable photos help tell this story…