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:Lessons from the Covington Catholic FlashpointMy social media network includes people …CulturePart of Wright brothers' 1st airplane on NASA's Mars chopper “Wilbur and Orville Wright would be pl…AwesomeR.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) Artistic Prosperity TrailerWe rehearsed and recorded a Zoom recordi…ArtAn Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My MarriageInteresting essay challenging the notion…EssaysInheritance (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season…
Similar:The State Of Media EmploymentThis is why I require my “new media jour…BusinessA woman approached The Post with dramatic — and false — tale about Roy Moore. She appears …This looks like a deliberate attempt to …Current_EventsNo, this pie chart does not mean that anyone at CNBC believes the typical 25 year old earn…Tell me…
Similar:The girl asked me to read R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) to her. #quarantine #partylik…Books‘Snow White’ gets a new musical There’s a buzz of excitement this week…Culture2001: Stanley Kubrick’s Exasperating MasterpiecePosting this mostly to prove that I can …AestheticsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – About the game30th anniversary refit of the cruel, cru…AmusingSMS Generator SMS…
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:The amazing daughter is featured in the ads for this commercial dance event. The amazing daughter is featured in th…PersonalTwo classes will turn in final revisions at midnight Sunday, and final multimedia project…Still plenty of work to do before I fini…AcademiaI really enjoyed powering through Wilson’s Century Cycle during winter term.AwesomeSeeing A Wrinkle in Time.…
Similar:Eclipse!Personal"Only You" — 11yo Carolyn Sings a Power Ballad from "Starlight Express"The observation car Pearl sings of her l…AestheticsOne of the benefits of teaching at a small college, with small classes…In a final reflection video for a freshm…AcademiaFull Bloom opens tonight.PersonalMy wife reports: “There was one smart aleck walking along the street who exclaimed: “Look,…PersonalFind…
Similar:Me Checking into My #4C19 Conference Hotel RoomI’ll just mark a few more papers before …AcademiaMy mother-in-law invited me to try out the 60- year-old tape machine that belonged to my f…My mother-in-law invited me to try out t…AwesomeWhat does a professor do, other than lecture for a few hours a week? Wow, this response!…
Similar:Watched "Apollo 11" at local library with my son today50 years ago today, three humans were on…CultureThe girl told me to post this with the caption, “The Addams Family Goes to the Big League….Personal'Jane Austen, Game Theorist' by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Is a Joke When [Chwe] says that Austen was a g…Academia14 questions for new…
Similar:The Chase (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 20) Planet-hopping archaeological DNA…Rewatching ST:TNG A well-done mystery…CultureAscending the path to High Hrothgar? No, just the snow-covered steps from the parking lot… Ascending the path to High Hrothgar?…PersonalMy Summer Project: A WordPress Website for Stage Right, a Local Non-Profit Not too shabby, if I do say so…
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:Alas for You (Godspell, Stage Right)Three weeks ago tonight, I got an email …DramaServing at Christmas on the Hill 2025PersonalVisiting Ft Ligonier #sevenyearswar #history #localhistoryPersonalTrack and field fundraiser:photo by Carolyn. FIRST ONE!!!PersonalNew CarWednesday morning my resourceful brother…BusinessPie, anyone?Personal
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:The spoils.PersonalGo not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.First runner-up for the girl’s Halloween…AestheticsThe Royale (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 12)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…BooksThe Forsaken (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 17) Lwaxana Troi and the station c…Rewatching ST:DS9 Bashir is hosting t…CultureHave 40 years of…
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:I just thought of a time before you were born when I should have been kind, but I can't re… Sometimes when I’m driving along los…AcademiaOn the way to the theater for the show! Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd.PersonalI've spent 8 hours with 24 different Verizon agents who keep transferring me back and fort…It’s not…
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…