Similar:Modular support craft from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my …Modular support craft from the #neovicto…AestheticsHow to interact with the introverted…My daughter spends a lot of time with he…DesignSledding in Spring Break SnowMy wife suddenly decided I should be a G…Current_EventsMy journalism students just gave me this wristband: "What would Jerz…
Occasionally, when I don’t know exactly what to search for, I have found it somewhat useful to describe a problem to Bing and see what topics it searches for as it assembles its answer. But decades of experience with search engines means I don’t usually need a bot to tell me what to search for.…
Similar:Stuffed planet Venus, made for me by my dear mother, around 1974.AestheticsIn the Hands of the Prophets (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 19) Keiko's scienc…Rewatching ST:DS9 A candidate for Baj…CultureThe storage shelves of my fantasy steampunk CGI starship will need props with appropriate … AestheticsCarolyn, Easter 2017 PersonalContagion (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 11)Picard faces…
Rewatching ST:DS9 During his usual lunch with Bashir, Garak dismisses as farcical the notion that Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar would be surprised that his best friend betrayed him, in a literary reference that is definitely random and will certainly have nothing at all to do with this week’s plot. Garak departs with a promise to deliver…
When I’m stressed, or I feel life is spinning out of control, I buy lights. I’m sure there’s something symbolic in that action. Over the years I’ve picked up a half dozen photography lights with umbrella reflectors, and as the cool-white spiral fluorescent bulbs fail — one every two years or so — I’ve been…
Rather than wanting to make a film about Tetris the video game as such, Baird was fascinated by this human story that pushed the game into existence. “The original title of the film was actually Falling Blocs, just like the Eastern blocs that dissolved when the Soviet Union collapsed. I thought it was a really…
I’m still grappling with exactly how the rise of AI writing apps will affect my teaching. I don’t think it’s reasonable to ban technology from the classroom. While I will likely assign more in-class, hand-written activities, that strategy won’t work for online classes — and I am just not interested in requiring students to use…
“That was easy!” Today three different students made some variation of that statement. In that class, we are gearing up to write a research paper. I have broken the project up into multiple tasks, that I can grade quickly and generously. Today’s assignment asks students to submit a paragraph that argues the…
this frog and their band pic.twitter.com/bVo6xuakuv — non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) March 26, 2023 Similar:That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent ItProfessional disinformation isn’t spread…CultureElevator shaft on a #steampunk #blender3d cruiser, just because. #design #aesthetics #blen… AestheticsEditorial: Video Games and The Great Train Robbery Through the development of crosscuttin…AestheticsWhite antiracist…
An in-person casino opened up a few years ago in the shopping mall near my house. I haven’t been inside, but I hope the rent helps the rest of the mall stay open. Just as the in-person shopping has to compete with online retailers, the in-person casino offers a restaurant and entertainment, to establish it…
Similar:I had to act like I knew something about golf. There I am on the right at about :15.PersonalThe Assignment #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 5) Keiko is not herself after a t…Rewatching ST:DS9 On a bustling morning…DramaThe Great Gatsby Character Map SomethingSoSam.AestheticsThough I have marking and prep and committee work and paperwork to…
Similar:Blank template details and a wider view of a 30cm x 30cm grid of brass and glass #neovicto…PersonalJournalists play a vital role in a democracy. That sometimes includes serving the public b…PersonalMy 13yo and 18yo enthralled by WarGames.Wife likes movies. Son likes military th…CultureHappy Easter 2020 CulturePrepare to lower the personnel deployment gondola from the…
Similar:It’s alive! What NPR learned from turning its @nprnews Twitter account from a bot into a h…My student journalists tell me they lear…CybercultureThe Sacramentality of Teaching and LearningFor the one-credit journalism class that…AcademiaEric Bentley, Critic Who Preferred Brecht to Broadway, Dies at 103One of the few harsh critics of Arthur M…AcademiaThe Key To Better Work?…
Some people out there will never like you, no matter what you do. Some hurting and traumatized people will latch onto you as the symbol of their insecurities, and treat all your imperfections as personal attacks. It’s important not to pay that negativity forward, or to punch down, or to take it out on yourself.…
A dedication in the script of a 1603 Ben Jonson play (Sejanus: His Fall) may have been written by Shakespeare, who appeared in that play as an actor. “It’s tantalising. There are so many parallels with Shakespeare’s style that it must surely make even the most hardened sceptic pause and think.” Initially intrigued, he had…
My grandmother shaped them a little differently, more like segments of a sphere… the name I must have given them in my childhood is just “powdered sugar crescent cookies.” She packed them in a tin with chocolate chip , oatmeal raisin, fork-impressed peanut butter, and maybe sugar cookies? I would have made a beeline for her…
My family thoroughly enjoyed this performance at Greensburg’s Palace. Similar:Apple Hill Playhouse is closing, leaving theater group seeking new homeConfiguring socially distanced seating a…BusinessWhy ‘Cats’ the Movie Fails So FlamboyantlyI can’t seem to get into superhero movie…AestheticsGoogle’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? Though not in…
Similar:Pop Culture Showdown with My Retro DaughterThe girl tried to weird me out with a vi…AestheticsGo not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.PersonalDelightful interview with a former Setonian editor-in-chief who's now doing SEOAs a student journalist, Jessie totally …AcademiaTypeset In The FutureWhile watching classic science fiction f…AestheticsThe Little…
Similar:Choosing Carolyn's HeadshotWhich of these headshots do you like bes…AestheticsI touched up an intro to hypertext essays from 2000.When I initially wrote this introduction…CybercultureIrony in Blakes7 Reboot?RT @Laroquod: @DennisJerz If #Blakes7 tu…BusinessIntroduction to The Skin of Our Teeth (optimistic, absurdist metatheater; Thornton Wilder,…https://youtu.be/1okt8MIVTtsAcademiaAmLit Rescue — Scratch GameA student in my “American Literature: 19…AcademiaParent: "Why don't…
Similar:The Last Jedi: Oh, the Feels.No spoilers here. (I managed to avoid al…MediaAll those fights over late-arriving mail ballots were much ado about very littleJust in case you haven’t been thinking l…CultureWhy Audiences Hate Hard News—And Love Pretending OtherwiseA reminder that polls that ask people to…CultureThank you, 1993 Dennis, for documenting this low-resolution (the background…