Representing the Humanities at Accepted Students Day. Similar:“Waiting for Life” (Once on This Island)https://youtu.be/NeoVD3prQWYPersonalFall 2017 Grades Submitted. No professional tasks until Tuesday. Bliss!PersonalCrochet octopus for the win! Crazy costume for #pptplaytime Boougie Gentleman (adaptation …PersonalHe checkmates me in two moves. I lasted about a half hour, and went down fighting.Personal'Little Mermaid' brings new music to…
The daughter opens another show. This weekend only. Similar:More bits of my summer project – another delightful span of a #neovictorian #steampunk con…AestheticsNutcracker dress rehearsal montage. Carolyn plays the Dew Drop Fairy Saturday at 7.PersonalLife would be so much better if all the interfaces we encountered looked like #Steampunk c…AestheticsMy mother has taught me so…
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper. Similar:Police Say A Lot Of ThingsIt’s not all cops who lie. Just the bad …CultureEssay on meaning of a life grounded in the liberal arts @insidehigheredFor David N. DeVries, the critical think…AcademiaThe 22 rules of storytelling, according to PixarMy favorite: “Once…
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:The Novel as a Tool for SurvivalMuch of what Krystal writes about the no…BooksStarship Mine (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 18) Picard out-thinks thieves rai…Rewatching ST:TNG Picard plays cat-an…Cyberculture'History has treated her badly': Hamnet and…
Gotta love how this reporter worked the spelling variations into the story. Meet Ben F orgers (we wish we were making this up). The founder of the accounting firm hired by Donald Trump’s social media group has used 14 variations of his name in filings with the industry regulator, far more than any other US…
Last weekend I roughed out shapes to represent buildings, in order to provide some sense of scale in a 3D simulation. For the past few days I’ve been texturing. #blender Similar:Mostly German, sometimes refreshing my high school Latin.PersonalA rare win for Dad. CultureTwelfth Night Cast Photo (Prime Stage, May 3-12)My daughter can hardly stop talking abou…AestheticsStudent…
The School of Humanities honors me and my colleagues @mikearnzen and Dan Martino as we complete our service to @setonianonline, @eye.contact.shu and the Pastoral Ministry program. (We’re all still here @setonhilluniversity, looking forward to our next adventures on the hill.) Similar:Freshman writing students present their research projects in a suitably decorous setting. … PersonalYes, Duolingo is…
NASA says it is once again able to get meaningful information back from the Voyager 1 probe, after months of troubleshooting a glitch that had this venerable spacecraft sending home messages that made no sense. The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes launched in 1977 on a mission to study Jupiter and Saturn but…
I confess I often check my messages and make quick calls while walking between appointments. My school has a lot of interconnected buildings, with halls wide enough for pedestrian traffic to flow in both directions occasionally connected by a doorway only wide enough for one person. I find students who are on the other side…
Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins [to a young child] Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of…
I didn’t know I had a Shakespeare-themed-match itch to scratch. 1. Hours and hours How many hours are there in a week? And when you’ve worked it out, can you now figure out how Shakespeare expressed that number in words? He did it using only 15 letters, true to his line “Brevity is the soul…
Some 2300 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato wrote a dialogue featuring his mentor Socrates, who argued that the ability to churn out the longest written compositions on trivial topics or the shortest compositions on important topics is a shallow skill that has nothing to do with human understanding, much like demonstrating that you can…
Similar:Out for an April stroll.Nature"Oliver Twist" is a story of redemption for PICT Classic Theatre.Carolyn started rehearsals for PICT Clas…BooksCarolyn, Easter 2017 PersonalWhen backwards newbie poets write…PersonalPicking up books for another termAcademiaMy more or less daily 10cm section of a #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart…Aesthetics
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I remember when we got home from SHU’s “The Tempest” you immediately started making a sock puppet theater. At one point you were enumerating all the characters you wanted to portray, and you said, “I’m going to need more socks! Similar:I just finished recalibrating the port scanner station and lookout post. If you need help…
Similar:My current Zoom backdrop. #blender3d #partylikeaprofAestheticsWhat gives you comfort? I collect lights. Some of these have magnets!!AmusingTreasure peaceful moments in a turbulent world.AestheticsSomeone seems to have slipped this over my transom. Thank you, #foodsubstitutefairy whoeve…PersonalAnother delightful section of a #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #…AestheticsSmalltalk through masks is hard; I really was glad to…
Similar:Sunny but cool. Great day for a long walk with my son.PersonalParadise Blue (so glad to be seeing more live theater lately)PersonalProgress (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 15) Kira befriends a stubborn squatterRewatching ST:DS9 Dax and Kira are ch…CultureMeme alleging Trump said “Africans Are Lazy, Good at Sex, Theft” is a hoax I’ve seen…