I am happy with how this turned out. My mother told me about this story when I was little, possibly because a priest mentioned it during a Christmas homily. I didn't read the story myself until I was an adult.

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The Gift of the Magi (by O. Henry; read by Dennis Jerz; We Are One Body Audio Theatre)

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It's a thing to do.

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Eco-critical Code Studies: Reconfigurations of nature in the born-digital artifact “Colossal Cave Adventure” from text to VR

Video game history is colliding: Sierra founders are bringing a seminal text adventure game to VR (The Verge) Colossal Cave Adventure (Crowther 1976; Crowther and Woods 1977) (photo credit) Photo of Ken and Roberta Williams; Wikipedia photo of Adventure on a CRT Sierra On-Line (Sierra Entertainment, Inc.); King’s Quest, Space Quest, Phantasmagoria; original publisher of…

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Academic Writing Blues

Two days ago my problem was that I had nothing written and I had three days to produce a 2250-word document. Today my problem is that I have 3150 words written and I have one day to produce a 2250-word document. I liked the first problem better. Similar:Unnatural Selection (ST:TNG Rewatch Season 2, Episode 7)Rewatching…

We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion

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Elevator shaft on a #steampunk #blender3d cruiser, just because. #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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Meet Our Advisor: Dennis Jerz

“Journalism is an imperfect human activity done by biased people who have bills to pay and passions that drive them,” said Dennis Jerz, Seton Hill associate professor and advisor of The Setonian. “If you believe that your organization is the only pure organization that exists you are approaching journalism from a perspective that I just…

Forward is the officers’ wardroom. To the right is an airlock. Left leads to the on-call officers’ bunkroom. Not happy with the misaligned texture on the chair back, but it’s fixable. #blender3d #steampunk #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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Mariah Carey meets William Carlos Williams

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i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries – so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my “inner child”

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Furnished a random nook in the #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser I'm building. Not happy with the obviously flat bars on the window, but I'm learning. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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Just a random side corridor in the #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser I’ve been building in #blender3d for fun. #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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On the spiral staircase that leads from the top deck down to the officers' pub and wardroom. #blender3d #steampunk #neovictorian #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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Crime coverage on Fox News halved once US midterms were over

In the weeks leading up to the US midterm elections, the message from Fox News was clear: violent crime is surging, cities are dangerous hellscapes and Democrats are responsible. With the vote over, however, the rightwing news channel appeared to decide things weren’t that bad after all, and decreased its coverage of violent crime by 50% compared…

Combating Shakespearean shrinkage – Shakespeare & Beyond

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Top deck of a #neovictorian #steampunk cruiser needs an airlock at the top of the spiral staircase and a railing to keep awkward robots from falling through the skylight. #blender3d #design #aesthetics

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The White House’s plan to colonize the moon, briefly explained: Putting humans on the moon is more political than you might think.

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CBS News Suspends Twitter Posting ‘In Light of the Uncertainty’ About Musk-Owned Social Platform

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