The Quality of Life (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 9) Boxy bots start to skive; Data thinks they’re alive, that’s a-plot twist

Rewatching ST:TNG During a poker game, Crusher tweaks Riker, Worf and LaForge for wearing beards.  The bumpy-headed scientist Farallon is super-dedicated to a “particle fountain” mining project, which the Enterprise-D is assigned to evaluate. Along the way she has also had time to tinker with remote-controlled, AI-driven gadgets she calls “exocomps.” After an exocomp refuses…

More modeling in #blender3d. Very happy with reflections and lighting. (The teacup is a polyhaven.com freebie.)

Similar:Delighted, amused, touched, and quite frankly weirded out (so… many… puppets…) by @t…PersonalMake a date with #HeartOurArt at The Westmoreland Museum of American ArtWhile our daughter is performing in Stag…ArtPut up the Hoop Sooner: 10 lessons of parenting from one wise guy who's done doing the dad…Earlier today, we dropped our daughter o…AcademiaUpdated Media Bias…

Florida Woman Bites Camel

Identifying her as a “Florida woman,” as I interpret it, suggests that we’re dealing here with what Newfoundlanders would call a come-from-away and New Yorkers would call an out-of-towner. The tantalizing implication is that a local woman would have known that you could give a truck-stop camel an infection requiring antibiotics by biting its genitalia.

While the veterinarian was caring for the camel, was anyone attending to that Florida woman? She had, after all, been sat on by a six-hundred-pound camel, an experience that has to be at least uncomfortable and probably injurious. A reader has to wonder if she had some broken bones or some cracked ribs or at least a nasty taste in her mouth.

And we still have the deaf dog to deal with. –Calvin Trillin, New Yorker

A Fistful of Datas (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 8) Worf Trapped in Western Simulation

Rewatching ST:TNG Silly Gagh-Western finds Worf trapped on the holodeck with gunslinging copies of Data. When the crew gets a few unexpected days of downtime. Picard practices his flute and Crusher casts a play. After running out of excuses, Worf finds himself wearing a sheriff’s badge and moseying into a holo-saloon, at the request of…

Physician: “My career of treating patients has ended”

Very painful Reddit thread. Similar: The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley Because what he never managed to grok …BusinessOscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Earnest (Part 1 of 2)https://youtu.be/tF4ndwOoPPsCultureJerz Nerdcation 2013On a visit to the Washington DC area for…CultureIn Defense of Liking ThingsIt used to bother me that people got all…CultureHemingway: The…

A Christmas Carol (WAOB Audio Theatre)

I had a great time a couple years ago recording the part of the narrator in A Christmas Carol for WAOB Audio Theatre. (Four episodes, about 20m each. The son and daughter are also in the cast.) Similar:"If It's Not Baroque, Don't Fix It" Cogsworth Broadway Supercuthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx6t-pef…AmusingHaiku'da Been a Spam FilterLatest weapon against junk e-mail:…

More #Blender3D practice. Making many objects to liven up a #steampunk environment.

Similar:Yes, we will see almost anything branded Sherlock Holmes.PersonalPart of my daily routine is practicing German for about 15m per day. With no particular pr…EducationThe daughter opens another show. This weekend only.The daughter opens another show. This we…PersonalLittle Women (the daughter plays Amy, the youngest sister)PersonalLittle green owl, if your emotions depend this much on…

Rascals (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 7) Transporter glitch tween-ifies Picard, Ro, Guinan and Keiko

Rewatching ST:TNG A glowing Space Thing causes the transporter to revert Picard, Guinan, Ro and Keiko into 12-year-olds, with their adult memories intact. The four child actors do a fantastic job channeling the personalities of characters we already know well.  Tween Picard tries to carry on giving orders as usual, and contemplates returning to the…

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly, who testified unmasked at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, has since tested positive for the coronavirus, the airline said in a statement.

Kelly testified at the hearing that he believes masks do not add substantial protection to airplane passengers and cited aircraft ventilation systems.

“I think the case is very strong that masks don’t add much, if anything, in the air cabin environment,” he said. “It is very safe and very high quality compared to any other indoor setting.”

The hearing lasted approximately three hours. Five witnesses were seated in close proximity and went most of the hearing unmasked.

Kelly was seated between American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby. Kirby tested negative, the airline said. American said that “Doug is symptom-free, fully vaccinated and getting tested this afternoon.” –CNN Business

True Q (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 6) Visiting Intern Exhibits Q-like Powers

Rewatching ST:TNG On its way to help an ecologically devastated planet, the Enterprise-D picks up a clever young intern, who reveals for us her secret power of making puppies appear from nowhere. Amanda (played with an impressive mixture of maturity and teenaged vulnerability by Olivia D’Abo) chats with Dr. Crusher about family, and we learn…

Happily masked in center row C. (The daughter is dance captain.)

Similar:‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in DunsinaneWhat a headline. The poet John B…CultureArsenal of Freedom (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 21)With an A-plot that comments on the Cold…CultureGreebles make me happy.Before CGI, filming a science-fiction st…AestheticsThe Vengeance Factor (ST:TNG Rewatch Season Three, Episode 9) Sovereign's Chef Beguiles Ri…Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….PopCultI'm…

Schisms (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 5)

Rewatching ST:TNG Riker is having trouble sleeping, except during Data’s poetry recitation. (“O Spot! The complex levels of behavior you display / Connote a fairly well developed cognitive array.”) As the ship faces a labor-intensive task of charting the Space Thing of the Week, LaForge has made some adjustments to the deflector grid. Riker’s dozing…

Fall 2021 Grades Submitted

Mission accomplished. Similar:That's not an argument. (Yes it is.)I spent some time this afternoon sifting…AcademiaMy adorable daughter (Easter 2021) AestheticsThe Other 21st Century Skills User Generated Education.AcademiaLining up for Honors Convocation 2016. #setonhillAcademiaI am slightly ahead of the boy. Rare.PersonalThank you, Herald Standard journalist Kelly Tunney, for visiting my class today.Academia

It’s a lie that having zero assignments to mark means I have nothing “to do,” but this particular task is done.

A relief. Similar:Merry Christmas 2019PersonalWide-angle view of a villain’s secret lair. #blender3dAestheticsToday's workload included requesting a "less-depressing used chair" #lowexp…PersonalMore 18th Century fun @fortligonierMore 18th Century fun @fortligonierPersonalWho needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on Second LifeYears ago I spent some time in Second Li…AcademiaFall 2023 Grades: Submitted! Academia

Adding random objects to the bookshelves for a fantasy #steampunk project. #blender3d

Similar:30 Web Designs Featuring Vintage Style Typography30 Web Designs Featuring Vintage Style T…AestheticsHow it feels to watch a user test your product for the first time Jonathon Shariat.AmusingThey Smiled Too!Victorians had to stay still for 3 secon…AestheticsLate night set construction for The Miracle Worker.ArtWide-angle view of a villain’s secret lair. #blender3dAestheticsThat's what's been bothering me…

Relics (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 4) When a huge hollow sphere traps a Scots engineer, that’s a-survey

Rewatching ST:TNG The Enterprise-D traces a distress call to a huge star-enclosing Dyson sphere. On a crashed ship, they find a jerry-rigged transporter that has suspended someone in its buffer for 75 years. That someone is the legendary engineer Montgomery Scott, who is surprised to see a Klingon among the rescue party. LaForge promises to…

Students Don’t Read Syllabi, Exhibit 58623

https://twitter.com/ConnorMEwing/status/1469369756138590209/photo/1 Similar:Crime coverage on Fox News halved once US midterms were over In the weeks leading up to the US midt…Current_EventsIn September, 2002, I was blogging about science writing, satire, ebonics, Google News, ow…In September, 2002, I was blogging about…CybercultureGet ready for Generation ZStudents continue to change… I’m doing…CultureMake Video Horizontal Again For confessionals or…

Dennis G. Jerz | Associate Professor of English -- New Media Journalism, Seton Hill University | jerz.setonhill.edu Logo

Hidden Spaces, New Possibilities

I’ve often had dreams about returning to a former home and discovering a hidden room there. When I was a kid, the local TV station trimmed a couple minutes out of every rerun of Star Trek, so as an adult I would occasionally be surprised by a few minutes I had never seen before.  …