I think enough time has passed that I can tell this story. When I was a PhD student at the University of Toronto in the mid 1990s, the department asked me to sit through a week of undergrad presentations and proctor a final exam for my advisor, who needed to take a brief medical leave.…
Similar:Scientists should be goggled and in the lab, where they belong. Shut up and make me a vacc…Am I doing the tribal rage thing right? …CultureGrappling with Genocide: Fostering Empathy and Engagement through Text and Image (NEH fund…Some of my amazing colleagues have colla…CultureThe first ever photograph of light as both a particle and waveThere’s…
Similar:Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels If it were possible to build a digit…BooksGreat moments from Pride and PrejudiceI haven’t read Pride and Prejudice in ab…BooksI've Stopped Creating Syllabi. Now I Create Syllabuses.At some point, using “syllabi” as the pl…AcademiaThe Inner Light (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 25) When a probe-zapped Picard …Rewatching…
Similar:Is this Wonka's factory, or the presidential picnic @setonhilluniversity ? PersonalThat Much-Despised Apple Ad Could Be More Disturbing Than It LooksApple has apologized, but like writer Pe…AestheticsAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #aesthetics #designOne of many steampunk control panels I’v…AestheticsFor God's sake John, sit down!CultureMy current Zoom backdrop. #blender3d #partylikeaprofAestheticsMany familiar faces in…
Many of the same people who reject masking and vaccinations on the grounds that they allegedly threaten the free will of the citizenry are perfectly OK with authoritarian police systems that harass and assault citizens who are exercising their First Amendment rights to a free press and free speech. If you’re worried that vaccines are…
Similar:While searching my bag for a cable, I found an unexpected wealth of food-substitute items.AmusingLecturing is So Much Easier than Leading a DiscussionLecturing is So Much Easier than Leading…AcademiaThe girl’s first day on set filming for “The First Day of Summer” Carolyn plays a teenager who’s outsi…CultureAnother 10sq cm of a beautiful #steampunk control panel…
Similar:As Twinkle Twinkle is to Suzuki musicians, so is a wooden shipping crate to CGI modelers. …https://youtu.be/diQF9buONqY I ha…AestheticsStar Trek: The MenagerieJust finished watching a two-part episod…PersonalPie, anyone?PersonalThe Hunted (ST: TNG Rewatch; Season Three, Episode 11) Honorable soldier exiled by the pea…(Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break…EthicsShe was a musical ingenue Sunday, filmed a slasher…
Similar:Blender Griffin, Part 3Okay, that’s enough work for one evening…AestheticsThe girl on Halloween 2018. (The boy and I were watching the 1931 Frankenstein at the libr…PersonalLook at how many times this false claim of media conspiracy is being shared. Compare that …PersonalMythbusting UX design: 7 misconceptions about user experiencePerhaps the most common mistake of any…
Similar:For some reason, I saw a bump in traffic to a page that linked to a "make-your-own-Trump-e… This sort of thing was funnier back …AestheticsExplorers (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 22) Sisko builds an ancient Bajoran s…Rewatching ST:DS9 With a come-hither …AmusingConfronting the Myth of the 'Digital Native'It’s one thing to be able use…
Similar:Fox lawyers Convince Judge that Fox's Tucker Carlson is "not stating actual facts" and "an…To defend Fox personality Tucker Carlson…CultureStage Right offers four versions of its musical 'Annie' | TribLIVELeapin‘ Lizards! There are four versions…CulturePoetry Stimulates the Brain's Reward-Anticipation Arousal Near Ends of StanzasI fixed the NY Mag’s clickbaity title, “…AestheticsWhy Were Old Video Games…
I blogged in 2004: “The time is waning that my son will want nothing more than to play Battleship and The Magnificent Race with me all afternoon. Some day I’ll make a silly joke, and my daughter won’t giggle with glee, she will roll her eyes and say, ‘Dad, you’re embarrassing me.’” https://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2004/07/09/2657/ …
Similar:Faculty assembling in launch tube beneath Salvitti Gym. #classof2017 @setonhilluniversityPersonal"A Mushroom at Last… A Mushroom Forever"I asked my 10yo why she was moping. “…Amusing"The face of the last man on Earth." #alquist #rur #robots #capek #virtual #theater Gettin…AestheticsIn July 1999, I was blogging about Dante's ashes, Apollo 11, gender-neutral language, and …In July, 1999, I…
I posted a while back about the yellow and blue color scheme of the suits worn by Russian cosmonauts who had then just arrived at the International Space Station. This story says all three Russian had gone to a school whose colors are yellow and blue, and that they did not intend the colors to…
Similar:Stage Right's production of 'Secret Garden' is heart-tugging showIn the Stage Right production, the role …Current_EventsThe girl has gotten progressively more dedicated over the past few days.When you’re a homeschool parent, you go …AestheticsMasked up, so I don't infect you, in case you are in a vulnerable group. Feeling healthy. …CultureRussian Grand Ballet Swan Lake.PersonalThe…
After watching all the episodes of the 80s/90s Star Trek: TNG, with the beautifully designed fictional LCARS computer interfaces, it’s amazing to look at what actual computer interfaces looked like in the early 90s. (OK, the Macs of that era looked prettier.) 30 years ago—on April 6, 1992—Microsoft released Windows 3.1, which brought the company…
In March 2020, just as the lockdown closed down my daughter’s production of The Outsiders and the next couple of shows she had already lined up, and my school went to virtual teaching, my wife got a call from the Nielsen Ratings company. My household had been selected as one of the representative families whose…
Rewatching ST:TNG When we all first met the crew of the Enterprise-D, I was an undergraduate living in a dorm at the University of Virginia. Seven years later, I was a Ph.D. student in a dorm at the University of Toronto. I saw the series finale on a channel that was hosting a huge live…
Similar:Assembling wall units to bake into a texture atlas. Teacup is a freebie from polyhaven.co… AestheticsMore #blender3d #steampunk #design. #blender3dart #aesthetics The officers’ conference roo…AestheticsSo this is Pi DayMy wife says she bought the pies intendi…AmusingOkay, not my most thrilling #blender3D creation, but a fantasy steampunk ship-of-the-line …DesignSettling in for a half day updating my…
In April, 2002, I was blogging about Instructions for “Asking a Girl on a Date” (autistics.org) The Inform Beginner’s Guide (I edited this book on programming text adventure games in Inform 6) Broken Links: Just How Rapidly do Science Education Hyperlinks Go Extinct? (yes, the link was broken but I linked to the backup on…
Still recovering from this morning’s three-hour training session. Huge echoey room. Lots of masked people talking, some of whom were shouting their comments and questions from their seats instead of using the microphones. When we were asked to share a time we felt excluded, I went up to the mic, mentioned my auditory processing…