Similar:Every few years, I Google the name of the kid who saw "The Empire Strikes Back" the night …HistoryThings That Will Freak out Every OCD PersonA good collection. I’m only linking to i…AestheticsSmall Changes in Teaching: The Last 5 Minutes of ClassI just ordered the book Lang mentions in…AcademiaLooking forward towards the wardroom (center) and the…
Similar:Finished Reading "Fibble," Book 4 in "Heck: Where Bad Kids Go."I finished reading to my daughter the fo…BooksWinners Chosen in Annual Shakespeare Monologue and Scene ContestMichael Henninger took this wonderful ph…Books"What Teachers Make" Sequence of AssignmentsEvery year I rewatch Taylor Mali’s passi…AcademiaPa. agency explains why it enacted new 'no force-on-force rule' for Bushy Run, other…
Similar:My crowd simulation handles 2000 capsule NPCs at 130fps. I’m really pushing my coding skil…AestheticsUpdated a post about Sarah Rush — the "launch when ready" crew member from 1979 Battlesta…I recently noticed that a blog post I cr…AmusingDisruptive Decorations: Kids learned better in a sparesly-decorated CMU labKids learned better in a sparse lab sett…Aesthetics#Blender3D practice:…
Rewatching ST:DS9 Dax and Kira are chatting in a runabout (Dax says Morn is “kind of cute”) when they discover humanoid life on a moon that’s scheduled to be technobabbled into uninhabitability in the name of progress. On the moon, Kira meets Mullibok (the great character actor Brien Keith), who escaped to this moon decades…
Similar:"Chores" — Clip from Snow White: The Musical (Stage Right Greensburg, Sept 2012)Here’s what it sounded like at our first…CultureThe boy plays chess with his uncle before seeing The Fantasticks.PersonalLegos and M&M’s Bulge IllusionThese are straight vertical and horizont…Aesthetics#blender3d is teaching me more than I ever thought I’d need to know about roof geometry. E…#blender3d…
Rewatching ST:DS9 Dax is apprehended for the allegedly criminal actions of a previous host. Bashir is unsuccessfully trying to escort Dax to her quarters when he witnesses people attaching her. Instead of calling for backup, he tries to be a hero and gets knocked out. The station manages to catch the baddies’ getaway ship, and…
What a story! Sharing stories like this (that is, white abolitionists who stood up against whites deeply invested in the racist status quo), is probably something that makes racists annoyed. Like the various assassination attempts Cassius Marcellus Clay survived, or the time a tour group of 60 proud supporters of the status quo…
Similar:Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.First runner-up for the girl’s Halloween…AestheticsForward is the officers' wardroom. To the right is an airlock. Left leads to the on-call o… AestheticsAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #relaxing #aestheti…AestheticsBlender GriffinTo celebrate yesterday’s on-time submiss…AestheticsNational Dance DayIn…
Similar:The geekling is 14 today.PersonalPopulating my simulation with a crowd. Tweaking and experimenting. #unity3d #medievalyork …PersonalSorry, not sorry. I don't want such friends. Back in 2003, shortly after I moved …CultureThe Truth About Test ScoresIt’s not hard to design a test that has …Business'Little Mermaid' brings new music to the Andersen fairy tale – Pittsburgh…
Similar:The Mystery of Charles Dickens by Joyce Carol OatesDickens is so brilliant a stylist, his v…AestheticsInheritance (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 10) Data's mom talks a lot, young …Rewatching ST:TNG Within minutes of hea…EmpathyAn afternoon with Ben Franklin. CultureTalk with us about books! English as a minor or second major @setonhilluniversityAcademiaSnape is not amused…
Inform 7 Source Code (released under the “CC BY 4.0” license) Your Office Demo (CandW22 Inform 7 Workshop, Video 1) Journalism Game Scenario (CandW22 Inform 7 Workshop, Video 2) Noir Detective Game Scenario (CandW22 Inform 7 Workshop, Video 3) Similar:Inaccuracy Of Every Single Detail Forces Student Paper To Pull Story At Last Minute“We at The…
The AP’s own rules say an 18yo is an adult, not a teen. In a light-hearted story about a high school event where some are 17 and some are 18, you could get away with calling them all “teenagers,” but in a serious story, it’s crucial to be consistent. This suspect is a white man.…
Similar:A Prof Debunks Standardized Testing & Pearson Strikes BackAll this emphasis on standardized testin…AcademiaSalman Rushdie: how Cervantes and Shakespeare wrote the modern literary rule bookBy a set of strange coincidences, compli…BooksOn the upside, no fake news is currently being shared on Facebook. Can't think of a do…PersonalDon't use that "18 school shootings since Jan 1"…
I just dusted off a #textadventure project I started in Inform6 around 1999. By around 2007 I had rebuilt about 90% of it in #inform7 and expanded it in fits and starts. But I haven’t touched it in 11 years. It took me about 90 minutes to update all the deprecated code, but it runs!…
Similar:Waiting for the house to open. @prime_stagePersonalThe Drowsy Chaperone @setonhilluniversityPersonalMy schedule every Friday this term. (Payback for teaching a course over Christmas break.) PersonalLoved part 1 of Alec Silverblatt's Mon Valley Medium. Part 2 tomorrow at 7. #pptplayt…CultureOnce On This Island (next weekend)PersonalAnd again I ush.Personal
In this short documentary, I voice Herb Morrison, the radio reporter famous for narrating the 1937 crash of the Hindenberg — 85 years ago this month. It was an honor to learn more about this man (born in nearby Scottdale, Pa.) and to interpret his words. Local history can be so fascinating! Herb Morrison, native…
Similar:Now I can relax a bit. (But just a bit.)PersonalThe girl got picked for an audience participation bit as the muse of comedy in Xanadu. Gre…CultureHermann Zapf, the font designer behind Palatino and Zapf Dingbats, has died at 96Hermann Zapf, the designer of fonts such…AestheticsTwine: the program that’s democratised the video gaming worldTwine games look and…
Rewatching ST:DS9 O’Brien tries to weasel his way out of an assignment to ferry Bashir to a Bajoran village that sent a vague (apparently medical?) distress call. The cheerfully oblivious Bashir asks O’Brien to call him “Julien” instead of “sir.” (O’Brien: “Is that an order?”) The landing party is led to Sirah, an old man who…
Jonathan Bailey writes: In short, Bello, an author who admitted to plagiarizing in her now-cancelled debut novel, wrote an article about the experience and, in that article, included poor paraphrasing without attribution of an article that I wrote over a decade ago. It’s a moment that even 16 years of work in this field did…
Similar:Fancy iPad Holder with Compartment For Storing Your BabyFisher-Price enters the Apple aftermarke…AestheticsEnjoying live theater.The Illustrious Invalid. @kinetictheatre_pghPersonalIf I don’t stock the officers’ pub on my #steampunk #fantasy #CGI flagship, who will? (All…PersonalSo this is Pi DayMy wife says she bought the pies intendi…AmusingSurprised and delighted to find that Scratch 3.0 runs on an iPad.PersonalRedemption,…