I just touched up a handout on Parallel Structure vs Faulty Parallelism. Similar:One of the benefits of teaching at a small college, with small classes…In a final reflection video for a freshm…AcademiaGreat moments from Pride and PrejudiceI haven’t read Pride and Prejudice in ab…BooksBad Writing Costs Businesses BillionsThis is thinkpiece rehtoric rather than …AcademiaAPNews.com Photo…
These comic panels cover the issue well. (Pennington Publishing) Similar:Memory of Wrestler Yukon Eric”The year is around 1952, the dead of wi…HistoryIn December 1999, I Was Blogging About Joseph Heller, E-Journalism, and Travel WritingIn December 1999, I was blogging about: …BusinessI Know How You're Feeling, I Read ChekhovReading Chekhov for a few minutes makes…
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:I'm nerdy enough to give my 15yo a used copy of "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." I’m nerdy enough to give my 15yo a used …BooksRelics (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 4) When a huge hollow sphere traps a Sco…Rewatching…
I’m a happy, responsible, and no-longer-obligated-for-jury-duty citizen. Similar:My son (black) has captured better pieces, but my brother (white) has a better position. C… PersonalA Christmas Carol — new audio adaptationBooksAnalysis | The ‘Kellyanne Conway on the couch’ controversy is so incredibly dumbOne photo from the event shows her scrol…CultureMany familiar faces in this cast but this…
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:How’s newsgathering…
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:How hate and misinformation go viral: A case study of a Trump retweetOn Sunday night, President Donald Trump …AcademiaTweet: Came around the corner and saw my kids huddled on…Came around the corner and saw…
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:More #blender3d #steampunk control panel details. #blender3dartAestheticsTime Squared (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 13)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…PersonalThe Quickening #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 24) Bashir visits a…
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:The new marshmallow test: Resisting the temptations of the webThe Stanford marshmallow experiment is a…Academia#blender3d is teaching me more than I ever thought I’d need to know about roof geometry. E…#blender3d is teaching…
RT @mykidcancode: Managing Your Preschooler’s Fascination with Apps – bit.ly/lv1ZyR #parenting #technology Similar:I have for some reason reached another #duolingo milestone.CultureThink Before You Tweet In the Wake of an AttackSobering analysis. Would I be able to fo…CultureFormer Setonian editor-in-chief Amanda Cochran visits my journalism class to discuss her c…AcademiaWatched "Apollo 11" at local library with…
Not kidding — 254,460 spam comments in my trash folder! Similar:Facebook shrinks fake news after warnings backfireIn its efforts to combat the spread of f…BusinessMusician uses computer algorithm to compose every melody possible in C, releases them for … A lawyer and hobbyist musician…AmusingThe quest to save today’s gaming history from being lost forever “If you…
“Bach is not for the weak of mind.” — Miss Renee, my kids’ piano teacher. “I’m in trouble.” — Peter, my son. Similar:A question I find myself thinking all the time.PersonalThe ‘Cancelling’ of Flannery O’Connor? It Never Should Have HappenedI regularly teach Flannery O’Connor, and…AcademiaHow are you holding up? What difficult choices have you made?…
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.…