Similar:So peaceful and majestic. Another outing with my son.PersonalCarolyn will portray Cosette Saturday at 2pm with 70 talented Stage Right castmates.The teen summer camp production of Les M…CultureAn English professor tries to help ChatGPT write and revise a sonnetShortly after my online AmLit survey beg…AcademiaThis is about half of the #steampunk control panel details I've…
Similar:‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves In literary circles, the practic…CultureDonald Trump Is a Broken Man (Assessment by Speechwriter for Reagan and both Bushes)Powerful assessment of Donald Trump, wri…CultureMedia Bias Chart version 11 — Journalism sorted by bias (Left / Center / Right), reliabili…The very useful “media bias chart” is on…CultureThink Before You…
Similar:Tonight's Supermoon.AestheticsJesus Christ SuperstarI have a daughter who does things. Her n…CultureBehind the bar in the officers' pub, from the #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my…AestheticsThe Course of True Fun Never Did Run Smooth: A Midsummer Night's Dwarf Fortress ReflectionI am in rehearsals to play Oberon in a c…CulturePerseverance lands on Mars today!…
Vinnie Tresco, Carolyn Jerz, Matthew Hommel, and Kathryn Pretz are in the cast of this playful, intense & inspiring musical. Similar:Trimsheets baked with greebly texture goodness add eye-pleasing woodgrain & tech detai…AestheticsRandom eye candy for props in my #Blender3D #retrotech project. Turned two circle logos in…PersonalDarwin Was Wrong: Your Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Your…
Similar:I gave my class a Poem to read. The author's Name — I hid.I gave my class a Poem to read. The aut…AcademiaU Michigan's North Quad Complex: A Media CathedralThe North Quad Residential Complex at th…AcademiaKirk's manly, sensitive advice to young CharlieIn popular culture, Captain Kirk from th…CultureCharlie Brown has his kite-eating tree. I have…
Nick Bain, 17, was in class one day when he calculated that only “2 1/2 to three hours” was actually useful instruction. So he decided to go out on his own to learn. —NPR Similar:And yes, that's her picture in the program (from the PPT Shakespeare contest).At PPT’s The Diary of Anne Frank. …CulturePortrait of a…
In school, we expect our professors to answer our questions, to return our emails, to invite us in for a consultation, to pay attention what we say and read carefully what we write. One of the important lessons of being a student journalist is learning how to deal with the unexpected. Unfair things happen in…
On a shelf in the slanty room under the stairs, next to her college textbooks, my mother kept a stash of inexpensive Peanuts paperbacks — dozens of them, which reprinted the newspaper strips, perhaps on a yearly basis, maybe more frequently. I spent many a summer afternoon reading through those books, and I remember sorting…
Similar:Helping students find my office (St. Joseph 403)Personal"Chores" — Clip from Snow White: The Musical (Stage Right Greensburg, Sept 2012)Here’s what it sounded like at our first…CultureSpring 2023 Grades: Submitted! (I only had 3 last-minute submissions to mark today.)AcademiaIn September, 2000, I was blogging about PICK UP AX, Bellamy's Looking Backward, WB Yeats,…In September…
My laptop drive is full & my comfort-food shelf is empty; however, that package slip was for a new external hard drive and a case of Clif Bars. #winning! Similar:Datalore (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 12) Data's bro wants to be with a big crystal tr…In “Datalore,” an encounter with Data’s …CultureSeton Hill's #CIO @PhilKomarny…
Last week, I had a hardware emergency. A kid in a small-town hardware store spent about 15 minutes helping me find the right nut. I had the troublesome part with me, and used a vise on their worktable and their wrench to twist it in place. The nut cost 50 cents. I asked the kid if…
Similar:Part II of the Mon Valley Medium was a powerful experience. Funny and painful. @thepublicp…CultureSeeing A Wrinkle in Time. @prime_stagePersonalI'm not a big fan of Disney's corporate greed.I’m not a huge fan of Disney, largely be…AcademiaD&D-Themed movie Zero Charisma pits Nerds vs. HipstersMy wife usually gives me nerd-themed DVD…CultureBlender 3D Flyover of Fantasy Steampunk Spacecraft…
The trick is that most people think they are getting a good deal out of Facebook; we think of Facebook to be “free,” and, as marketing professors explain, “consumers overreact to free.” Most people don’t feel like they are actually paying when the payment is personal data and when there is no specific sensation of…
3,486 words, 120 links, 57 lexias, and currently this is the only ending.
Social media services have put writing tools into the hands of people who probably don’t think of themselves as writers, but there they are, captioning photos and picking hashtags and maybe even pausing just a few seconds to edit before they hit “post.” This radio interview offers a good, informal overview of why people who…
I’ve been fascinated by the rhetoric of headlines surrounding the “Sesame Street moves to HBO” story. * HBO gentrifies ‘Sesame Street’ –VentureBeat * Sesame Street Episodes Will Shrink to Half an Hour –Time * Sesame Street Is Heading to HBO, and Getting Even Bigger –Esquire * This episode of Sesame Street brought to you by…
Similar:My 13yo and 18yo enthralled by WarGames.Wife likes movies. Son likes military th…CultureChapbooks — the latest assignment in my “History and Future of the Book” class.Students have already done a 400-word sp…AcademiaAnonymous comment cards from student journalists at the end of the second week. These folks are amazing! It’s such a…AcademiaAllergic to Grammar ErrorsSource: Cyanide…
Once classes start again, we will all have less time for the game of life. Let’s do some serious playing while we still can. Similar:little drops — Why Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" Video Makes Me Uncomfortable… and Kind …Very insightful…. A reminder that even…AestheticsDelighted, amused, touched, and quite frankly weirded out (so… many… puppets…) by…
Use the command-alt functions to add sexual tension, plot twists, or a humorous interlude. —The New Yorker Similar:ChatGPT answers more than half of software engineering questions incorrectlyThe results showed that out of the 512 q…BusinessScammer tricks YouTuber who exposes scams to delete his anti-scammer channelThis one is hard to unpack, and painful …Current_EventsMultiple Choice =…
Jerz > Writing > Journalism I’ve spent the afternoon touching up some older journalism handouts, seeing which are still in good shape, which need some work, and which new ones I’ll need to create from scratch. I realize I’ve never actually written a handout on the inverted pyramid, writing leads, writing headlines, punctuating quotes from sources… of course there…