One of many steampunk control panels I’ve designed for pleasure. A couple years ago I designed 64 different variations of dial faces, so whenever I can use a gauge to fill up space, that means I can churn out another section in far less time. Similar:Pie, anyone?PersonalBrass desk lamp, with translucent green shade and glowing…
Rewatching ST:DS9 Quark receives a Bajoran earring that gets Kira pumped (for reasons we don’t know just yet). Jake has successfully asked a Bajoran girl out on a date. “I can see you’re not ready to have this conversation yet,” Jake tells his nervous dad. Kira asks Sisko to borrow a runabout, and only reluctantly…
Similar:Bloodlines (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 22) Angry Ferengi threatens a son Pi… Rewatching ST:TNG The Ferengi whose r…PopCultAdding detail to a #steampunk control panel workstation. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #b…AestheticsClever Modernization of Hamlet: Polonius with an iPhoneI teach Shakespeare in a literature clas…CultureFacebook "Grid View." Is this new? My first thought is that I…
Similar:Serving at Christmas on the Hill 2025PersonalApple's iPad turns 5: Has it lived up to Steve Jobs' 2010 keynote?[Jobs] was right to leave out the produc…BusinessThe daughter (giving the piggyback ride in pic 2) doing a thing that starts tomorrow. Tribune ReviewAmusingThe boy is visiting the Prohibition exhibit @HistoryCenter while I continue at NeMLA.PersonalTake a…
I teach Shakespeare in a literature class. I encourage students to call up a college production on YouTube, or listen to a BBC radio adaptation, and read along with their script. However, I remind students that because I’m an English teacher, I’m asking them to focus on the script, not on any individual director’s production…
Similar:Twine: the program that’s democratised the video gaming worldTwine games look and feel profoundly dif…CybercultureFDR in AnnieI’ve accepted the role of FDR in the upc…CultureAdded multiple swappable upper storeys. Next I will make slightly fewer variations of a sl…Added multiple swappable upper storeys. …AestheticsSeize the Day!PersonalWe're Teaching Books That Don't Stack UpOur provost sent this…
Similar:If I am not a pedagogical god, at least my marking app has no ungraded submissions. PersonalCarolyn will portray Cosette Saturday at 2pm with 70 talented Stage Right castmates.The teen summer camp production of Les M…CultureMaking Interactive Fiction Mainstream: ReadersJon Ingold describes the gamelike storyt…AestheticsThe Chase (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 20) Planet-hopping archaeological DNA…Rewatching…
Similar:The other day I did a socialize with some of my Humanities colleagues. (I am proud of myse…PersonalI’ve roughed out earthen embankments for the city walls. I know there was at some point a …I’ve roughed out earthen embankments for…CultureThat's what's been bothering me since yesterday's #AirPod reveal. #manamanaNumber of times one of my $9.99…
Similar:Learning the hard way, by making mistakes and starting over. The fore section of the fanta… AestheticsMore #steampunk #neovictorian goodness. Bring the wood polish. #design #aesthetics #blende… AestheticsAwesome 1935 Soviet Movie Deploys Saxophone-Controlled Robots to Crush Tophat- and Bowler-…I wish I understood Russian, so that I c…AestheticsTeaching myself the #Unity3D game engine. Each step requires…
As a newlywed, when my in-laws were visiting us in Toronto, I picked up a slightly crushed box of Enterprise-D blueprints at a big discount, and proudly showed my prize to my father-in-law. His face brightened, apparently thinking I was *giving* them to him. During the awkward pause that resulted, he reasoned that I was…
Similar:Oh dear, George Lucas! Why the Star Wars universe is going from bad to worseThough I always preferred a different fr…EmpathyEnglish Teacher Re-Titles Classic Poems As Clickbait In Last-Ditch Effort To Trick Student…Funny and clever. Via Excuse the Bananas…AcademiaAfter purchase of latest accessory, I can no longer close my camera bag. #ConspicuousConsu… With the money…
Rewatching ST:DS9 A candidate for Bajor’s new spiritual leader objects to Keiko’s scientific interpretation of the wormhole. Vedek Winn speaks softly, with a smug serenity that makes her a villain you love to hate, when she sweetly shares her views. With an edge to her voice, Keiko holds her ground: “I don’t teach Bajoran spiritual…
Similar:This morning I awoke to YouTube’s live footage of crowds circling a mosque in Mecca. For m… CultureSpring 2022 Midterm Grades: SubmittedPersonalStunning, bleak unemployment chart from the front page of the New York TimesCurrent_EventsChristopher Robin made for a pleasant family outing.PersonalNarnia board game — enjoyable family activity (but it's weird that the Pevensies compete …It’s…
Similar:The House of Quark (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 3) Quark accidentally kills … Rewatching ST:DS9 On a slow night…MediaWest Side Story Maria MontagePersonalAgain with the chess.I try to go to Planet Fitness or chess w…PersonalShrek: The Musical (Nov 22-24; Stage Right! Greensburg)Come see me as the Captain of the Guard,…Current_Events#blender3d is teaching me…
Similar:All About Soap — Why Washing Your Hands Fights the CoronavirusPeople typically think of soap as gentle…CultureThere was a hand, too. Did you bring the hand?AmusingFind yourself someone who makes you plomeek soup like Nurse Chapel makes for Spock.PersonalUnmarked assignments. As more keeps coming in, can I reduce that number each day, without …PersonalGeorge Joseph…
Amazing lead: A veterinarian prescribed antibiotics Monday for a camel that lives behind an Iberville Parish truck stop after a Florida woman told law officers she bit the 600-pound animal’s genitalia after it sat on her when she and her husband entered its enclosure to retrieve their deaf dog. —Yousssef Rddad, The Advocate Note that…
Rewatching ST:DS9 Kira is convinced she’s captured a Cardassian war criminal, but Sisko insists on giving him due legal process. Marritza is not on any list of wanted criminals, but he is being treated for a disease that can only have been caused by a mining accident in a notorious labor camp. He is arrogant,…
Similar:Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies Thou shalt not commit logical fallaci…AmusingSherlock Holmes and The Woman (daughter and I rehearsing for a live recording Friday after…CultureBlender Griffin, Part 3Okay, that’s enough work for one evening…AestheticsEmergence (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 23) Enterprise-D subsystems exhibit e… Rewatching ST:TNG When I first re…PopCultClose Reading of Sonnet…
Similar:Updated Media Bias Chart — Left/Center/Right, Facts/Analysis/Partisan/Propaganda (Ad Font…Update — Media Bias Chart 10.0 All h…CultureDogmeat and I may yet win this game. Yes, this was the decisive moment. I…GamesI was briefly excited that Turnitin.com's new app works in a park with no WiFiThen I realized… I’m a guy who gets ex…AcademiaJournalists prefer plain language.AestheticsGetting…
Similar:Squirrel noisily enjoying a nut alongside the Grotto drive at Seton Hill.PersonalA former student contacted me to share her thoughts.A few years ago, I told myself I would s…AcademiaGetting there.Getting there.PersonalSpace Shuttle Challenger (Destroyed 28 Years Ago Today)I was in my final semester of high schoo…EducationAdding a little Middle-Earth drama to a photo shoot.The girl…