Breakfast with Santa

  Similar:Wide-angle view of a villain’s secret lair. #blender3dAestheticsCrabby 10yo Ties Self to Pole to Protest InjusticeMy wife confiscated my preteen daughter’…CultureIntroduction to The Skin of Our Teeth (optimistic, absurdist metatheater; Thornton Wilder,…https://youtu.be/1okt8MIVTtsAcademiaPrepare to lower the personnel deployment gondola from the forward eployment bay, two deck… AestheticsSeize the Day!PersonalA quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier with…

Does anybody care besides me? The App Store Omits a Hyphen

That should be “Twenty-Five More” Similar:Mariah Carey meets William Carlos Williams AmusingYes, I do feel rather awesome right now.Lost brand-new earbuds. Reached in pocke…PersonalMy understanding of biased polls is… (choose one) AmusingOne in a Billion: email tips – Google Search In the grand scheme of things, this …CybercultureLittle People, Big Fun: A Brief History of Fisher-Price…

Quick Reaction to the Google Books App: No highlighting? No thank you.

If you like highlighing, you can pass on Google Books. The press coverage I’ve seen is mostly about how Google’s new ebook store will likely threatens Amazon, but Google’s reader software is just meh. All politics about Google’s digitization of library archives aside, I love the ready access to full-page scans from out-of-copyright titles. The…

Sharing music files: Tactics of a challenge to the industry

Fascinating exploration of the relationship between official responses to torture and official responses to file-sharing, and possibly a useful way to introduce a big-picture concept (the issue of justice and its relationship to power) to students who have a strong opinions about the importance of their own file-sharing activities. [P]owerful perpetrators commonly use many or…

Transformation of e-mail is under way

E-mail may not totally disappear, but experts say in five to 10 years, it may look far different than it does today. “Within five years, we think the questions about social networking versus e-mail will be largely moot, as the two elements will have been fused together,” said the report by Gartner analysts Matt Cain…

Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans Tour

  Similar:Is There a Santa Claus? (Reading of 1897 editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church)https://youtu.be/qZUEO8zD6EQ CultureAudisee Presents: The War of the WorldsAs new age synthesizer music, a rich bar…BooksThe chief engineer does not know where the floating lamps are coming from, but he looks gr…AestheticsIn Defense of DistractionIf you’re a fan of lifehacking, you’ll a…CultureTweaking yesterday's…

Dying on Facebook

“Last week, his cousin announced on his Facebook wall that he was missing and asked everybody to contact her if we’d seen him,” my friend told me. “The next day she wrote that they’d found him, dead. Just like that.” We’re finally getting used to learning about our friends’ and acquaintances’ lives through Facebook. Will…

Vanity Post

My entry in the IMDB, as viewed on my iPod Touch. Similar:A pie slice from the ring surrounding the ballroom, from the #steampunk bedtime stories I …AestheticsMe loving my birthday truck, c. 1971.  I adored this truck, and spellin…DesignArmageddon Game (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 13) Bashir and O'Brien become t… Rewatching ST:DS9 In…

Uniforms

The second and, sadly, last of Douglas Johnson’s play-a-day experiment. (The three open the box and rummage in it, and pull out shirts with the Starfleet insignia.) DARNELL: Mine’s blue! TOMLINSON: Mine’s yellow! RAYBURN: Mine’s red! (DARNELL and TOMLINSON cough uneasily, and sidestep away from RAYBURN.) RAYBURN: Oh, very good. Top notch observational comedy there,…

Writing with the iPad

Seton Hill English major Theresa Conley describes capturing poetry inspiration with her iPad, and my colleague Laura Patterson describes how she uses the iPad to help students plan their writing. From a collection of clips on the website iPad on the HIll.   Similar:SAT essay section: Problems with grading, instruction, and prompts.In my freshman writing…

Writing in the Age of Distraction

There is never perfect silence, or happiness. Until my kids have gone to college and are out of the house, I will never get a full weekend of unbroken time to concentrate on writing (or reading, or coding, or whatever). I used to be able to bang out a blog entry or mark a few…