I just touched up a handout on Parallel Structure vs Faulty Parallelism. Similar:“The author talks about [topic]” is filler. Your professors want your college-level ideas.AcademiaSeton Hill University advertises for “Social & Digital Content Manager”The Social & Digital Content Manager…AcademiaR.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) Artistic Prosperity TrailerWe rehearsed and recorded a Zoom recordi…ArtThe Secret Lives of Tumblr…
These comic panels cover the issue well. (Pennington Publishing) Similar:New NASA Astronaut Wrote a Limerick to Get Hired “There was a lot of writing involved…AmusingLet He Who Is Without Sin #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 7) Worf Scorns RisaRewatching ST:DS9 A nervous Morn sniffs…AmusingWhy Do So Many People on YouTube Sound the Same?So…
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…
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I’m a happy, responsible, and no-longer-obligated-for-jury-duty citizen. Similar:Seeing Floyd Collins, a musical about caving and journalism. Front Porch Theatricals.PersonalMy crazy Friday night involved tweaking the graphic for an #MLAstyle instructional web pag…AcademiaVisiting my parents. Admiring their original Hallmark Enterprise Christmas ornament. I ask…AmusingEnjoying live theater.The Illustrious Invalid. @kinetictheatre_pghPersonalCDC: Vaccinated people can resume activities without a…
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:Google’s broken…
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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:Chillax, Wikipedia, and bridezilla are not puns: Against adjoinagesSo if recessionista and fembot are not r…AmusingBy Inferno's Light #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 15) Dominion / Cardassian edg…Rewatching ST:DS9…
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…
While researching my obligations for #juryduty Thursday, I came across this “Juror’s Creed.” The gender-specific reference to men, the instruction to reflect upon the virtues of democracy, and the instruction to respect the judge’s education all hint at a historical context for the creed. Institutions never put their creeds into writing unless they feel those…
Spent a productive work day doing nothing but optimizing my blog. Added a very nice plugin for displaying thumbnails of related posts. Similar:Last event of a busy day downtown. #AgathieChristie #murderontheorientexpressAestheticsAmLit Rescue — Scratch GameA student in my “American Literature: 19…AcademiaCrazy, Kinetic, Acoustic Visit to the Carnegie Science CenterA few days ago, I blogged about…
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Not kidding — 254,460 spam comments in my trash folder! Similar:By the way, humans sent a robot to another planet, and the robot sent us the sound of a du… Mars rover captures first sound of d…AwesomeHypertext as a Teaching Tool — Brown University Poetry Classroom 1974This short film documents an early attem…Academia"Only You" –…
“Bach is not for the weak of mind.” — Miss Renee, my kids’ piano teacher. “I’m in trouble.” — Peter, my son. Similar:Drawing of Once on This Island by the amazing Rebecca Scassellati.PersonalA selfie with a Chekov action figure after learning of Anton Yelchin's deathCurrent_EventsMy too-big Android phone stresses the pockets of one of my…
While I am uncomfortable with the whole “classroom as marketplace” metaphor, since it’s pretty much gamifying without the fun, I am nonetheless interested in this strategy for encouraging students to collaborate by having them attach a value to the artifacts they present to the class for sharing.. We shop for everything from apps to ideas.…