Look what I found on my shelf in a closet. #history #archaeology #media

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Traces of Scribes

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A Colorado town’s newspapers were stolen after a story about rape charges at the police chief’s house

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Ascending the path to High Hrothgar? No, just the snow-covered steps from the parking lot at the appropriately named Seton Hill University. (It’s 101 steps, by the way.)

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I was ‘raped’ in VR – the effects can ‘mirror’ real sex assaults

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The Ship #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 2) Sisko defends his claim to salvage a Jem’Haddar warship

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Picking a rubric in Canvas should not be so frustrating that it makes me want to blog about it… and yet here we are.

In general, I find Canvas a fairly decent system, but after a particularly frustrating hour wrestling with rubrics, I decided to spend two more hours blogging about my frustrations.  I would expect a drop-down list to be populated with all the rubrics I’ve already created for my current class, and it would be a nice…

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Jack Rollins-Frosty the Snowman

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POV: You are coding the automatic doors on your fantasy neovictorian cruiser personal project and you notice the strikeplate in the doorframe does not line up with the door latch. #unity3d #blender3d #revision #qc

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A Merry Look at Journalism in “The Year Without a Santa Claus”

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Fall 2023 Grades: Submitted!

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Completed uniforms for the officers and crew from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children. #unity3d #blender3d

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George Joseph Jerz (1933-2023)

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I remember these young people.

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Here for the daughter.

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