Madeline Cash reflects on her boomer mother’s use of ellipses. When I texted to thank her, she responded, ‘Enjoy . . .’ Why not Enjoy period or Enjoy exclamation point? Did she resent the gift? Are the treats poisoned? There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. ‘OK . . .’ ‘Thanks…
Similar:Work / Life Balance: UnlockedI think I must be doing something right …AcademiaHere's a close look at the scepter leading the procession. #SetonHillGrad 2016 starts…PersonalThe Naked Now (Season 1, Episode 2: ST:TNG Rewatch) When a script that blows chunks makes …With a large ensemble, we saw many scene…CultureLook what mysteriously appeared outside my office door!PersonalThe…
Never again.
Similar:How are you holding up? What difficult choices have you made? How can we all help each oth…Carolyn and were recently cast in a hist…CultureWhich of my colleagues wants attention?AcademiaMany of these individual steampunk control panel elements are repeated, but I've arranged …AestheticsI am very happy for these folks, who spent 20 or so years…
Similar:Empathy in a Downtown Sub ShopSitting in a downtown sub shop. A half d…Culture"The Nightmare of Prince Prezelsky"Leigh, Peter, Carolyn and I had fun reco…AmusingMy #AugustWilson #Steampunk NightmareToday is my last official day teaching a…AcademiaA new headshot for the girl.PersonalThe Other 21st Century Skills User Generated Education.AcademiaI just finished recalibrating the port scanner station and…
Similar:Do you get your news mostly from social media? I check NPR, Drudge, and news.google.com.Do you have a regular news-consumption r…Culture#Blender3D practice: #Steampunk control panel #trimsheethttps://youtu.be/4j7qAzaDg3w …AestheticsThe daughter joined the cast of this show a few days ago. As Safie, she sings a folk song …She says she got the email while at a…
Rewatching ST:TNG (Not sure where this review went!) Similar:Annoyed and Bored by Lazy Anachronisms in The Great Gatsby MovieI just watched the recent Great Gatsby m…AestheticsThe disinformation system that Trump unleashed will outlast him. Here’s what reality-based… Highlights from a column by Margaret S…UncategorizedMy new inspiration as I work on my syllabuses I applaud you,…
Rewatching ST:TNG (Not sure where this review went!) Similar:Soldiers and Sailors Memorial and Museum Another visit to Pittsburgh with my his…CultureShen Yun Chinese dance troupeOne of seven touring groups devoted to s…ArtWho Watches the Watchers (ST:TNG Season Three Episode 4) Rationalist, talky mythbustingRewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….EthicsArsenal of Freedom (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode…
This the sunlight at that time is shown on the map above, when the sun is set on Pitcairn, there’s still around an hour until it rises in Akrotiri and Dhekelia, meanwhile as it’s just after the spring equinox, the sun will have set over the south pole beginning it’s 6 month long night, and therefore setting on British Antarctic Territory.
Prince Andrew has lost all of his royal titles, including “Prince,” in an unprecedented move by King Charles He will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and has been ordered to surrender his lease at Royal Lodge The move comes amid renewed scrutiny of Prince Andrew’s ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein…
Amazon announced Tuesday that it will cut roughly 14,000 corporate jobs, or about 4% of its white-collar workforce, as part of a restructuring meant to “reduce bureaucracy” and “remove organizational layers,” according to a memo. In the memo, Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience at Amazon, said the cuts are designed to make the…
For a medieval project, I wanted a wood pile, but I didn’t want to have to stack the individual wedges manually. I’m experienced enough with Blender 3D that it only took me a few minutes to get this simulation running — but as this video clip attests, I need to adjust a few parameters. …
My auditory processing disorder makes it hard for me to process speech when I can’t see the speaker’s lips. My wife is being treated for an ear infection. We are asking each other “What?” after somebody coughs, after we ask each other “What did you say?” and after we answer each other “Never mind.” In…
I recall being very moved by the 1980s Gregory Peck / Christopher Plummer made-for-TV movie “The Scarlet and the Black,” which dramatized this story. From the late summer of 1943, O’Flaherty worked with “The Organisation”, a massive partisan network, to save more than 6,000 Allied prisoners of war, anti-Fascists, and Jews from Nazi concentration and…
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art Similar:URL Hacking (new graphic for an older page that’s surprisingly popular on my site)Cyberculture"The threat is no longer simply from government censorship."After using examples from Warsaw and Pra…CultureIn News, What’s Fake and What’s Real Can Depend on What You Want to Believe The proliferation of fake and hy…CultureDetails for a modular mid-range scoutship, from…
Similar:I'm having scads of fun designing #steampunk control panels. #blender3d #blender3dart…AestheticsOverview of the Forward Ops station, one deck below the main bridge of the fantasy #steamp…PersonalJust a #neovictorian avatar in spats and a tailcoat, checking out the back porch and bridg… AestheticsPics from Thursday's dress rehearsal of Shrek: The Musical. This weekend only! @stage…PersonalI asked…
I miss the convention in movies and TV shows in which the main characters visit a music hall or club, and we watch them watching an entire number. Maybe they exchange a few lines during a musical bridge, but mostly they’re just in character, sitting through a performance. I have only fragmentary memories of H.R.…
Similar:Many things in the world are awful right now but my latest section of a #neovictorian them…AestheticsSarah Polley: ‘It took me years to see how responsible Terry Gilliam was for my terror’The little girl from Adventures of Baron…Culture'Atari Dump' Will Be Excavated, After Nearly 30 YearsThe New Mexico landfill or “Atari Dump” …AmusingAnother delightful section…
On my ride into work yesterday, my mother mentioned “That popular singer has a song about a Shakespeare character.” I had seen social media posts about Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia,” but hadn’t investigated yet. I watched the video right before teaching my “Shakespeare in Context” class, and I felt kind of overwhelmed. I…
Similar:More details in the powder room of my villain's lair. #Blender3DAesthetics"I don't view Shakespeare's work as intimidating anymore." — midterm reflection from coll… “It has made me more confident in my…AcademiaThe Naked Now (Season 1, Episode 2: ST:TNG Rewatch) When a script that blows chunks makes …With a large ensemble, we saw many scene…CultureCharming solar…