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:Frog and Toad at the Mountain Playhouse with the daughter.Frog and Toad at the Mountain Playhouse …PersonalReception after faculty workshop. #partylikeaprofessorPersonalFaculty stacked up in launch tube beneath McKenna gym, ready for graduation 2022.AcademiaI just realized I've been misspelling and mispronouncing "detritus" all my life. I’ve been a college English faculty …AcademiaStarting my “Writing about Literature”…
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…CultureMy parents doing their daily crossword puzzle.PersonalMore modular low-poly background buildings. I’ll do some more facades then move to the nex…More modular low-poly background buildin…AestheticsMy more or less daily 10cm section of a…
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…
The court documents, submitted as evidence in associate dean Nicole Eramo’s $10 million defamation lawsuit against the magazine, show how journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely deferred to a U-Va. junior named “Jackie” instead of digging deeper to verify the student’s claims. Source: ‘Our worst nightmare’: New legal filings detail reporting of Rolling Stone’s U-Va. gang rape…
I’ve never liked Instant Articles — Facebook’s Newspeak term for “We want to make it harder for users to leave Facebook even when they’ve chosen to follow a link to an article on a news source.” In The New Yorker, Om Malik writes about Facebook’s evolving interface. There are days when I look at my…
The song “No One Is Alone,” from the musical Into the Woods, always gives me chills. Last year when my daughter was learning it in her voice class, I helped her work through some of the words. While the whole musical has a dark tone that I find comes too close to nihilism, in the context of…
Seton Hill is revamping its freshman writing program, previously implemented as a pair of courses, “Basic Composition” and “Seminar in Thinking and Writing” (STW), and now called “Composition and Culture” (which students can take in one semester or stretch over two). The new design includes more focus on reading, and also seeks to erase what…
Students who work their way up to leadership positions in clubs, get work-study jobs or internships writing press releases or running social media accounts or editing newsletters, who take challenging courses (and do the hard work necessary for getting an A), and who practice writing and talking about what they learn are already demonstrating the…
The world needs well-rounded leaders. A liberal arts degree encourages the kind of critical thinking that breeds managers and CEOs. American undergraduates are flocking to business programs, and finding plenty of entry-level opportunities. But when businesses go hunting for CEOs or managers, “they will say, a couple of decades out, that I’m looking for a…
Similar:Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #relaxing #aestheti…AestheticsEvery day on my fantasy #neovictorian interplanetary cruiser features glowing green ether … In the backstory for the interactive…AestheticsDance Nation @barebonesblackboxCultureAnother section of a #steampunk control panel, made in #blender3d for a personal project. …AestheticsFurnished a random nook in the #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser I'm…
Similar:The stair railings on my #blender3d #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser need some realigning….AestheticsLounge area of a steampunk villain’s lair. Still needs a light fixture or two. #blender3dAestheticsTips to Improve HappinessKing says many simple and effective tech…CultureOk, never mind Dusgcxms2… buddy, you can keep your first place as far as I’m concerned. Ok, never mind Dusgcxms2… buddy,…
I am in rehearsals to play Oberon in a community theatre production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is a fairy king who manipulates the lives of humans who wander into his realm. I am also playing Dwarf Fortress, an insanely complex game in which the player indirectly manages a community of dwarves. I’ve been surprised by the connections I’ve observed.
This is nerd heaven — a deep analysis of all the text that appears in the 1980s cult science-fiction film Blade Runner. (I really want this typeface to be Caslon, but despite everything else matching nicely, the top of the 6 is just wrong. I can only apologize for the discrepancy.)UPDATE: Several folks have noted in the comments…
Similar:Visiting Ft Ligonier #sevenyearswar #history #localhistoryPersonalAI generated images from the prompt "guy being bricked in a prison like a poe story b…PersonalMany things in the world are awful. But creating this #steampunk #blender3d control panel …AestheticsWitness Accounts in Midtown Hammer Attack Show the Power of False Memory Two people who saw a police encounte…Current_EventsMy tween…
Similar:Journalists play a vital role in a democracy. That sometimes includes serving the public b…PersonalCarnegie Science Center: Roboworld (and a bit of SportsWorks)Here’s a brief video, made up of clips I…CultureThe only snow alert you'll ever need.AmusingLego-Building Tween Refers to "The Hobbit" TextMy daughter, having just received a hand…AestheticsYou come very close to successfully combining…
Similar:The Sword of Kahless #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 9) Kor invites Worf and Dax…Rewatching ST:DS9 Kor (the charismatic …AmusingSquirrel noisily enjoying a nut alongside the Grotto drive at Seton Hill.PersonalI rather like my instructional page on writing effective dialogue. I created this new grap…HumanitiesDiaper Money Camaro Comes Home Four Decades Later“While my dad…
Facebook’s video push threatens the edited TV news package as much as it threatens the written word. I’ve definitely noticed a difference in traffic when I post a YouTube video (which generally gets modest attention on FB but often accumulates views over time) vs when I post similar content directly within Facebook (which FB seems…
Language evolves, so oldsters like me should get just used to it, right? Well, langauge was evolving long before “text” was a verb, and that’s exactly the reason why the English of Dickens and Shakespeare and Chaucer looks so different from our ordinary speech. I still use a pay-as-you-go dumb phone, and have to pay…
This is fallout from losing an invasion of privacy lawsuit, filed in the name of wrestler Hulk Hogan and backed by tech investor Peter Thiel (co-founder of Paypal and an early investor and current board member for Facebook, and in his younger days also co-founder of the Stanford Review). Gawker slogan: “Today’s gossip is tomorrow’s…