Similar:Amazing McDonald's "Maestro Burger" CommercialJaw-dropping. So creative and joyful. …AestheticsSix rainbow-colored objects, arranged like THIS?These are shoe-holding racks at a local …AestheticsNo, Kirk and Uhura didn't share the first interracial kiss on televisionSee Also: Star Trek: The Next Gener…CultureWe ask 3 Broadway photographers: How do you turn a live show into a still image?Great story…
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…
I had made the spice rack and utensils last year but everything else I’ve churned out in the past few weeks. I remember that a year ago it took me about a week to make that spice rack, but now in just one day I made all the copper cookingware, dishes, and many little things…
Mission accomplished. Similar:Seven reasons why blogging can make you a better academic writerI’ve been doing this since 1999. Why do…AcademiaKairos: Open Since 1996As a plucky new faculty member I wrote a…AcademiaSome new locations for my #neovictorian #steampunk personal project. Created in #blender3d…AestheticsHow to Disagree Academically: Using Graham's "Disagreement Hierarchy" to organize a colleg…How to Disagree…
A relief. Similar:I asked my geekling whether she was ready for bed…I asked my #geekling whether she was rea…AmusingMS-Word's helpful "View -> Focus" mode delays stress-related breakdowns.You won’t usually catch me saying anythi…CybercultureIn October, 1999 I was blogging about college application essays, Willie Crowther, and Eli… Jessica found herself wishing that s…AcademiaDear students, no need…
Similar:Knowing Poe [Annotated Version of 'The Raven']Edgar Allan Poe’s most popular poem, “Th…BooksSlow flyby of a scout shop. Starfield backdrop; particle-based engine exhaust; hull uses a…More progress as I continue to level up …AestheticsNow that I have polished so many details, I'm working on more selective lighting. #steampu… AestheticsInteractive Adventure SongIt seems YouTube will soon…
In November 2001, I was blogging about Florida recounts would have favored Bush (contentions election famous for a Florida ballot that many voters found confusing) Is this a burger which I see before me, / The soft bun in my hand? Come, et me clutch thee. / I eat thee not, and yet I want…
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…
https://twitter.com/ConnorMEwing/status/1469369756138590209/photo/1 Similar:Ursula K. Le Guin: A Personal Take on Go Set a Watchman Before Watchman was published, I…BooksGames as Text and K12 Social Studies Rather than training students to ident…CultureHeadlines matter. Were they migrants, people who happened to be at a migrant center, pedes…Do the headlines encourage empathy, or d…CultureAbout to DM a journalism class…
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. …
I came very close to accepting an offer to Purdue’s Ph.D. program, so it’s heartbreaking to read about the recently announced cuts to the famous and influential writing program. (What English teacher or writing student hasn’t relied on resources from the Purdue OWL?) [A] university that is only good at STEM education is nothing more…
Similar:Kitchen utensils for my steampunk villain's hideout. #Blender3D. There’s nothing particularly steampu…AestheticsAcademic robe, Is this the year I finally send you out to be cleaned? Nah, Febreeze is goo…PersonalEncounter at Farpoint (Season 1, Episode 1: ST:TNG Rewatch) Picard gathers his crew, hates…Rewatching ST:TNG after almost 20 years….CultureLook at how many times this false claim of…
Similar:Overheard at Quora: "Why after all these years is Moodle still so ugly?"Moodle is a free course-management tool …AcademiaPaleo-Future: robotsThis is from the robots category of Pale…AestheticsAn alternate universeMy plans to use a Chromebook over the we…CultureReport to bay 3, where tea will be served as the gondola delivers you to the planet's surf… AestheticsFamily…
Similar:Another #neovictorian control panel for a personal #steampunk project. #design #aesthetics…AestheticsNarrating "A Christmas Carol" for WAOB Audio Theatre. (The four episodes will be released …DramaFreshman writing students present their research projects in a suitably decorous setting. … PersonalStarting my “Writing about Literature” class by having students react to a John Donne sonn…PersonalOn a little afternoon walk…
High praise for a K-9 officer at Dallas Love Field Airport after more than $100,000 was found in a passenger's luggage. https://t.co/lJoDg5lWfh pic.twitter.com/sA1unHSCCB — CBS News Texas (@CBSNewsTexas) December 7, 2021 Some cop set up this shot hoping journos would publish feel-good stories unencumbered by context on exactly why it’s legal for cops to seize…
Similar:Kirk's manly, sensitive advice to young CharlieIn popular culture, Captain Kirk from th…CultureIf I don’t hang my own artwork on the walls of my #steampunk fantasy ship-of-the-line, who…AestheticsWilliam Shatner: My Problem With Twitter's Verified AccountsAt age 84, William Shatner (most famous …CybercultureThink Before You Tweet In the Wake of an AttackSobering analysis. Would I be…
Rewatching ST:TNG Called to the aid of a transport ship on its way to an important peace summit, the Enterprise-D scatters raiders and beams aboard an ambassador and his elderly mother Maylor, who dramatically warns Troi not to pursue him. Wishing to be transferred to another civilian transport, Alkar stands his ground against Picard and…
Similar:The Princess and the PaintFriday night, my daughter will be playin…AestheticsLooking forward to what looks like an exciting evening of dance.PersonalGreensburg student wins Shakespeare contest A Greensburg student did the Bard pr…CultureToasting Shakespeare at the Bard's Birthday BashOrganized by Pittsburgh Shakespeare in t…CultureWhen You've Already Got a Major, But You Love Books (Seton Hill English)…
An editorial on on the firing of CNN’s Chris Cuomo actually quotes from the textbook I’m using in the journalism class that met for the last time today. This editorial was actually published during our last class, so I regret I couldn’t assign it as a final discussion text. It makes a really…
Projections, live music, sounds, props, costumes, scene changes, casting, performances… everything spot-on and professional. A moving, deeply relevant story, with lots of flawed characters whose story arcs were rich and engaging. The mystery was well-executed, with subtle details (parallels, echoes, clever misdirection) that amplified the plot twists. Very powerful. I leapt to my feet applauding…