I’ve only glanced at TextureWriter, but already I wish I had seen it two months ago, so that I could have incorporated it into my online “Digital Storytelling” class. (I’ll use it this fall, though.) Similar:Coding Sucks: Why a Job in Programming Is Absolute HellI enjoyed the essay, but the truths it i…CultureThey grew up in…
Midsummer closes tonight, July 23. My daughter is playing Puck. Jim’s makeup is wonderful. Similar:"Jewish priests do this. It's where Leonard Nimoy got the Vulcan sign," says the geekling,…CultureReading Game/Text: EverQuest, Alienation, and Digital Communitiesthough Limbaugh is wrong to decide that …CybercultureRoss deserves better "Friends": a defense of nerdsI was not a fan of this…
Similar:If I don’t stock the officers’ pub on my #steampunk #fantasy #CGI flagship, who will? (All…PersonalThe Missing Will, by Agatha Christie (WAOB Audio Theatre)I had a great time playing Hastings in t…CultureFamily outing to the Pittsburgh National AviaryPersonalThe daughter (giving the piggyback ride in pic 2) doing a thing that starts tomorrow. Tribune ReviewAmusingEducated,…
Similar:U.S.S. Requin — Extended Tour of the Cold War Submarine at the Carnegie Science CenterSoon after WWII began, the USS Requin be…CultureStudying STEM Isn’t The Career Boost We ThinkTurns out, getting a STEM education may …AcademiaChess tournament final pairing. (He’s currently tied for 2nd.)PersonalWhen T.S. Eliot Invented the Hipster Prufrock cannot bring himself to…CultureAnother section…
Recently on Facebook I made some of my friends go “hmm” when I corrected a meme that suggested the medieval church burned Copernicus at the stake for teaching that the sun is the center of the solar system. (“Contrary to popular belief, the Church accepted Copernicus’ heliocentric theory before a wave of Protestant opposition led…
Similar:I both like and hate that Canvas tracks the number of unmarked assignments that await me. …I both like and hate that Canvas tracks …PersonalOn Death and iPods: A RequiemI never owned a classic iPod, though I d…CultureThis long-nelected CD-ROM case tucked away behind my monitor holds almost as many portable…PersonalNipper Hears "His Master's Voice"As…
As a college English teacher, I come to the table with a nuanced professional stance on the value of originality in writing. In a given discourse community, I can refer to common ideas without making it look like I am claiming original thinking. For example, when I was an undergrad with a work-study job in the…
My retired parents and bachelor engineer brother came from out of state so they could see Carolyn and me in the Latrobe Cabaret Theatre’s Midsummer. Mom says it was the first Shakespeare play she had ever seen. My family was sitting in the front row, so I could see their reactions from the stage. I’m…
Now imagine the resources required to simulate the brains of millions or billions of dead people. It’s possible that some future technology will allow for unlimited RAM and we’ll all get free service. The same way we’re arguing about health care now, future activists will chant, “The afterlife is a right, not a privilege!” But…
Similar:I’ve roughed out earthen embankments for the city walls. I know there was at some point a …I’ve roughed out earthen embankments for…CultureEvery conversation between a parent and a child, in four conversations. (Slate)This whole item applies very well to one…AmusingI saw this Friday night. Great fight choreography, lighting & staging, adaptation of t…PersonalUnmarked assignments…
The lead roles in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” are being performed by a father and daughter. Dennis Jerz of Greensburg plays Oberon, king of the fairies, and his daughter, Carolyn Jerz, plays Puck, Oberon’s mischievous helper. As director, Mr. Carosella describes Carolyn, who will be a high school freshman this fall, as a “triple threat.”…
Similar:Happy Easter!PersonalMarching in a parade and watching a patriotic musicalHappy Independence Day, fellow Americans…CultureThree more performances of Jane Eyre. Closes Saturday night! @pictclassictheatrePersonalGil Gerard (1943-2025) I built a model of the two-pronged Sta…CultureSad that NASA is taking a back seat to a private company, but still nerding over an Americ…BusinessRefreshing my memory of working with…
Among actors in Cabaret Theatre’s upcoming production of “Midsummer Night’s Dream” are a father-daughter duo and a husband-and-wife team. Dennis Jerz and daughter Carolyn Jerz, both of Greensburg, will play King Oberon and Puck, while Jerry and Jen Woodling of Export portray Theseus and Hippolyta. –Tribune Review Similar:Writing Effective Dialogue (Punctuation and Actions in Creative Writing)“Punctuating…
Similar:Chess with my son. As usual, it didn't go well for me.Games"The Nightmare of Prince Prezelsky"Leigh, Peter, Carolyn and I had fun reco…AmusingOn the way to the theater for the show! Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd.PersonalAnother delightful caricature by Rebecca ScassellatiAestheticsBook geyser. My latest #Blender3D practice.In a peaceful grassy setting, a geyser o…AestheticsStar Trek: Voyager…
Supernatural pranksters! mismatched lovers! rude mechanicals! My daughter plays Puck and I play Oberon in Shakespeare’s popular comedy, July 13-16, and 20-22, 7:30pm, at the Cabaret Theatre (Latrobe). Similar:Arsenic and Old Lace. I haven't seen this show since I played the lead as a high school ju…CultureMore #blender3d #steampunk goodness. #design #aesthetics #blender3dart AestheticsStunning writing in…
A Midsummer castmate shared a link to this online memorization tool. I’ve been using it for a half hour. It really helps. You paste in the text, then it blanks out all but the first letter of each word. At the next stage, it shows just the first two words of each line. —Memorizer (Memorization Tool) Similar:I'm…
Would you like facts with that? English majors are statistically more likely to end up as CEOs, doctors or accountants than food service workers. The top occupations for English-degree holders ages 27 to 66 are elementary and middle school teachers, postsecondary teachers, and lawyers, judges, magistrates and other judicial workers. Indeed, English majors, who go…
Similar:Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?PersonalBag a Bot DayAt midnight tonight, participants in the…Current_EventsMy parents holding a picture of the family I took with my first SLR camera in 1987.PersonalStupid Puns For the WinMy daughter just trounced me in a pun wa…AmusingMy simulation project does not require…
Similar:George Joseph Jerz (1933-2023)George Joseph Jerz, born on September 3r…EmpathyEach building in my #medievalyork simulation has four levels of detail (so that distant ob…AestheticsGround-nesting Yellowjacket WaspsWhile my 16yo son was mowing the lawn wi…Culture"It's called an amphora," the artist says.AestheticsIf I don’t hang my own artwork on the walls of my #steampunk fantasy ship-of-the-line, who…AestheticsCookies.…
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…