Next up: Stage Right summer musical theater camp starts Monday! Similar:Today’s adulting was brought to you by a failed motor vehicle inspection. #notacarguy #win…The car shop wanted to charge over $300….ModdingI just looked up the context for the bald guy dropping the chili. I guess I was expecting something like…DesignI baked pools of light into…
Testing a tool to automate connections between iOS apps. Similar:Classroom Project: Students Get 1 Hour to Propose, Shoot, Edit, Publish DocumentaryStudents created this in 60 minutes. …HomeComputers and Writing Conference 2013Where a nerd can be a nerd. (Thanks f…HomeInfinite Scrolling: XKCD's Creative Insight on a Common Interface IndignityAmusingSHU Commemoration of September 11 Terrorism Attacks –…
Similar:The complex geometry on this wedge building took me all weekend.  #blender3d #medievalyork…The complex geometry on this wedge build…AestheticsCanadian teen's short film captures Spring 2020Not graphic, but emotionally powerful. …CultureRivals (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 11) A charming entrepreneur opens a casi… Rewatching ST:DS9 A man in a fanc…AmusingI Set A Trap To Catch Students…
Submitted revisions of 6 video tutorial scripts & drafted 5 more. Also, scored 3 boxes of leftover reception cupcakes and 1 of brownies. Similar:My 13yo homeschooler had no idea how to open a little milk carton. I had to show her.CultureDeus Ex MemoriesI’ve just finished my final training run…CybercultureThis 1960s teenager knew the neighborhood that…
Blogging this so I can find it when I teach my “News Writing” class this fall. People do like to prank journalists with fake names. In this case, the reporter did what you’re supposed to do — get confirmation — but sheesh. KTVU reports fake racist names of Asiana Airlines 214 pilots from NTSB intern…
I recently bought a new phone. since then, I have answered an incoming call in my car. It felt awesome. Similar:Tweet: For an anatomy project, my #geekling made a Vulcan…For an anatomy project, my #geekling mad…TweetsShe doesn't have keys or a phone or an ID. Why does my tween need a purse?To stash her Lemonheads…
I just touched up a handout on Parallel Structure vs Faulty Parallelism. Similar:The Boat (Graphic Novel)My mother had a cousin who served in Vie…Aesthetics"Do Date" vs "Due Date": Do Profs Really Have to Explain the Difference? If there really are teachers who lis…AcademiaMLA-Style Bibliography Builder– updated to handle web sources Choose…AcademiaPortrait of a Ten-Year-Old GirlThis…
These comic panels cover the issue well. (Pennington Publishing) Similar:The Decline of Humanities Enrollments and the Decline of Pre-LawIt’s a myth that humanities majors don’t…Academia80 Days review80 Days was my go-to game over the summe…CultureEmily Dickinson’s Singular Scrap PoetryThere’s never enough time to cover Emily…CultureShakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter…
A thoughtful reflection on religion in Star Trek. While Humans aren’t depicted as participating in any form of organized religion (there is a reference to a Christmas party here, a nod to monotheism there), the series also includes a distrust of science and technology, regularly depicting mad scientists, societies over-dependent on technology, etc.) that insists…
If you’re legally present on a public street or sidewalk, you can legally photograph anything in plain view. (This includes children and crime victims… but just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s always a good idea.) If law enforcement engages you, ask whether you are free to go; if so, then move out of the…
Standardized testing rewards standardized thinking, while excluding creativity, resilience & other “soft” skills. I have started gong out of my way to remind students in my classes that I am not comparing their papers to a “correct answer” in the back of my book — I want them to learn a habit of mind that…
It’s a good day when one’s nerdiness is an asset to a colleague. Similar:In January 2000, I was blogging about dancing paperclips, the transience of literary judge… In January 2000, I was blogging abou…BooksYeah natural born creative genius is a cool myth, but have you tried grinding through hour…PersonalInnovative journalism: A game about the rising…
I’m a happy, responsible, and no-longer-obligated-for-jury-duty citizen. Similar:Feeling classy while I lose. Feeling classy while I lose. PersonalTook the whole day off and spent part of it making #greebles with #Blender3D because reaso…AestheticsIt's Friday night in July, and I'm jamming with my fall course preps.The dean sends me an email at 9:07pm. In…AcademiaThe geekling is…
Keep a local backup of anything important you’ve entrusted to online services. There’s no guarantee that, years from now, those services will honor the terms you agreed to. Backed by new investors, including singer Justin Timberlake, Myspace (after dropping the capital ‘S’) has been rebranded as a music-streaming service, with a new sleek interface, and…
Penn and Teller are involved with this story. Worth a read. The only record of the game’s existence was a handful of review copies that had been sent out to journalists in the weeks before the publisher went bust, in 1995. The game remained a curious rumor until September, 2005, when Frank Cifaldi, a freelance…
Judge: Apple conspired to fix eBook prices. #ethics #books The Federal lawsuit claimed that Apple, led by then-CEO Steve Jobs and senior vice president of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue, conspired with HarperCollins, Hatchett, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster to drive e-book prices up from the $9.99 price point Amazon had established. –readwrite.com Similar:The disastrous…
RT @spj_tweets: How TV could suffer the fate of newspapers: @alanmutter shares the second installment of his two-part blog – http://t.co/l… Similar:Juror's CreedWhile researching my obligations for #ju…CultureRT @DDeClaudio: Who do you think controls the news…RT @DDeClaudio: Who do you think control…TweetsHow hate and misinformation go viral: A case study of a Trump retweetOn Sunday…
RT @DepressedDarth: Dear J.J. Abrams, If the new Star Wars is bad, you will forever be known as Jar Jar Abrams. Sincerely, Star Wars fans Similar:Gingerbread USS EnterpriseMr. Sulu, set phasers to delicious! Whic…AestheticsParallels (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 11) Worf gets technobabbled into a ti… Rewatching ST:TNG After returning…AmusingThe woman and the car:…
I really like MailChimp’s “Social” plugin, which not only publishes a WordPress blog entry to Twitter and Facebook, but also collects responses from Twitter and Facebook users and collects them as WordPress comments. Today I installed a different plugin, Twitter Tools, which is really just a single tool — it lets you create a WordPress…
Habits for happiness: tips for looking on the bright side of life. At bedtime, in order to avoid a nightly litany of complaints, I ask my glass-is-half-empty-and-I-hate-the-pirate-glass-and-there’s-a-bug-in-it tween to list three good things, two neutral things, and one sad thing about her day. Sometimes if she needs to share more than one sad thing, I…