Chess with my son. As usual, it didn’t go well for me.
Opening night. Support local artists in your community!
MLA in-text citations: avoid these common errors
The daughter (giving the piggyback ride in pic 2) doing a thing that starts tomorrow.
Tribune Review
A big day for our first year writing students! So much energy in the room!
The Quickening #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 24) Bashir visits a planet where plague victims “worship death”
Rewatching ST:DS9 After a comic opening on the station (featuring Quark working an advertising jingle into the cups served up by the food replicators), we join Kira, Dax and a starry-eyed Bashir (“Is it my imagination or are the stars a little brighter in the Gamma Quadrant?”) on a runabout, following a distress beacon to…
My Shakespeare students are off peer reviewing their term paper rough drafts. I’m officially guarding their water bottles and key rings.
I’ve finally started to create female uniforms for the #neovictorian fantasy #steampunk æthership from the bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children.
First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Go
I check into Musk’s X every few days, but I no longer *use* it as I once did, as a way of learning from credible experts responding to breaking news, and as a way of connecting with colleagues in my field, mostly just listening quietly while they shared their wisdom with each other. I first…
Font vs Typeface: bold and italics are fonts, but Arial and Times New Roman are typefaces
Burgh to Burg, episode 2.
Daughter doing a thing. Interviewing the Pittsburgh Dance Council’s Randall Miller for Burgh to Burg.
After decades lost, Star Trek’s original Enterprise model may have been found
Long before sci-fi shows created their visuals with computer-generated images, sfx crews filmed detailed models against a plain. Wide-angle close-up lenses, softly glowing internal lights, and slow camera motion give the impression of great size. The large 11-foot model of the original Star Trek’s U.S.S. Enterprise is on display in the gift shop at the …
To the Death #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 4, Episode 23) The Defiant’s pursuit of disloyal Jem’Hadar raiders leads to an unlikely alliance
Rewatching ST:DS9 In the Defiant mess hall, Dax and Bashir give O’Brien friendly advice about parenting, and Dax and O’Brien warn Bashir not to sit in Worf’s favorite seat. A Jem-Haddar sneak attack on DS9 has fragmented a docking pylon, and during the hectic scene that follows, the camera leaves Kira’s in-progress tactical report so…
The Supreme Court could soon change the internet forever — here’s what you need to knowÂ
There’s a history of case law protecting the rights of privately owned publishers and social networks to make their own editorial decisions — including algorithmically sorted content. The U.S. Court of Appeals (11th Circuit) ruling in May 2022, which blocked Florida’s law, stated “while the Constitution protects citizens from governmental efforts to restrict their access to social…
MLA Citations: Citation generators make mistakes. Here’s how to spot 5 errors they often make.
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Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him
So, the sight of Elon Musk charging towards Wikipedia with his trademark guile and delicacy was so predictable that it was almost relaxing. He saw a collective resource that people prized and he wanted to hurt it. Why does Wales even need any money to run Wikipedia in the first place, he wondered on Sunday. You could…