Stunning. The Stars and Stripes is much more important than any local monument. Even for those of us who are all too wearily familiar with President Donald Trump’s disdain for journalists, his administration’s latest attack on the free press is a bit of a jaw-dropper. In a heretofore unpublicized recent memo, the Pentagon delivered an…
On Sunday night, President Donald Trump retweeted a video of a violent incident on a New York City subway platform. The video shows a Black man pushing a white woman into a train car and is captioned “Black Lives Matter / Antifa.” The problem? It is over a year old and has nothing to do with either Black Lives Matter or Antifa. It, in fact, shows the actions of a mentally ill man with no known ties to either group.
Similar:The girl on Halloween 2018. (The boy and I were watching the 1931 Frankenstein at the libr…PersonalOne of my students is demonstrating the perceived value of brand-name vs no-name products…. PersonalWestmoreland County Air Show 2012 (Photos)Traffic leaving the Arnold Palmer Region…AestheticsFriday night. What am I doing? #partylikeaprofAcademiaLiving Room PhysicsI’ve blogged before about my eight-year-…EducationCelebration of Writing…
A good response to the myth that the labor of an online instructor is less valuable than the labor of an in-person instructor. Most of a college’s budget is labor. When a physical campus moves to online teaching, it doesn’t save much labor at all. Grading an online student’s paper takes the same amount of…
I hoped this slide would appeal to my students as I taught them about pitching a news story. Similar:"This Is Probably Going to Kill Us:" How First 'Star Trek' Movie Avoided DisasterThis article left out someone important!…HistoryHexagons Are the Bestagonshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs…AmusingUpdated a post about Sarah Rush — the "launch when ready" crew member from 1979 Battlesta…I…
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. Still recovering from his ordeal with the Borg, Picard visits his brother at the Picard family vineyard. In the village of his boyhood, Picard’s roadside encounter with his nephew Rene is just perfect, as are the domestic scenes with his warm sister-in-law Marie and his brittle, jealous older brother…
Similar:Scrooge Is My BrotherMy daughter delivered the opening “Marle…CultureJumpsuit for a female mechanic in my #neovictorian #steampunk project. #blender3d #unity3dAestheticsEnjoying a visit with an Austrian imperial commander (ahistorically but magnificently pres…Enjoying a visit with an Austrian imperi…PersonalChurning Out More Non-profit Arts PromosAs part of my volunteer work for a local…AestheticsSportsWorks Adventure at the Carnegie Science…
Similar:WARNING: Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin have been stolen in UKOne of several paintings that were, acco…ArtConundrum (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 14) You Get Amnesia! And YOU Get Amne…Rewatching ST:TNG The Enterprise-D cr…CultureWikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wants new Facebook feature to burst 'filter bubble'It’s extremely important to understand w…CybercultureGeometry and color maps for wooden…
Similar:A Christmas Carol — new audio adaptationBooksHow to Disagree Academically: Using Graham's "Disagreement Hierarchy" to organize a colleg…How to Disagree Academically: Using Grah…AcademiaTwitter / Search – "couldn't remove your contacts" – All Tweets Twitter / Search – “couldn’t remove …AmusingWhat Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2015?If the pre-1978 laws were still…
Similar:The girl got picked for an audience participation bit as the muse of comedy in Xanadu. Gre…CultureFired for Making a Game: The Inside Story of I Get This Call Every DayHe knows that if he’d instead posted a s…BusinessTrying Out the Zaggmate Keyboard/Case for iPadI was at a meeting yesterday in our IT d…DesignNew infographic…
Similar:Dissecting a Frog: How to Write a Humor PieceAnalyzing humor, as E.B. White famously …AmusingProgramming as Magic Spells in Erica Sandbothe's New NovelIn her new novel, Codecrafter, Sandbothe…BooksNINE officials have COVID-19 after 'superspreader' SCOTUS eventSo negative! Why does the lying America-…Current_EventsIncoming Seton Hill Students Pick Up Their MacBooks and iPads TodayI find it impossible…
Similar:She was nervous about the dog misbehaving during "Tomorrow," so I told her she could pract… https://youtu.be/718e4XsNvGY Leap…AmusingStar Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch I was in college and grad school dur…CultureTop U800. #chesstournamentPersonalBeautiful. No Data / Lore opposition required. AestheticsFancy a game of whist with your nemesis? The prospect of ruin adds piquancy to the…
Similar:In August, 2002, I was blogging about ebook readers and email in teaching; how urban legen…In August, 2002, I was blogging about …AcademiaSymbiosis (TNG Rewatch, Season 1 Episode 22)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…CultureOverheard: "This is the best show I've ever seen at the Geyer" and "Who IS that girl playi…Gasps from the audience,…
In August 2000, I was blogging about Top 10 Tips for Writing Poetry (which I’ve updated over the years and is the most popular page on my site today) Richard Lederer’s presidential wordplay (“I predict that at the end of the campaign. Gore will be bushed and Bush will be gored. Then we’ll have either…
Similar:I am not in the splash zone but still definitely out of my comfort zone. Support the arts …I am not in the splash zone but still de…AmusingTSA Agent ConfessionIt was May 2007. I was living with a boh…CultureOn Immigration, Poetry Isn’t Policy, but Poetry Matters, by David French, National ReviewThe conservative National Review offers…
Our understanding of COVID-19 has accreted around the idea that it kills a few and is “mild” for the rest. That caricature was sketched before the new coronavirus even had a name; instead of shifting in the light of fresh data, it calcified. It affected the questions scientists sought to ask, the stories journalists sought…
Similar:The Rage of Virginia Woolf”The passion, if not the logic, of her a…CultureOh, No. YouTube is Deleting Videos.Oh no. First YouTube institutes a “COVI…Current_EventsGame Design Program for Education & TrainingI haven’t tried GameSalad yet… and won…AcademiaMy colleague Dr. Cusick bakes Irish soda bread every year to honor Saint Patrick's Day.AcademiaToo Short a Season (TNG Rewatch:…
Another very rough day. Students are cheerful and patient, obviously happy to be here. I can barely understand what the students right in front of me are saying. (It’s not about volume… the problem is I can’t see their lips moving; I do have an appointment with an audiologist Friday.) I long for the days…
Similar:Standardized-test robo-graders flunk“According to professor of theory of kno…AcademiaMr. President, stop attacking the pressReagan recognized that as leader of the …CultureWorld Trade Center Literary and Cultural Reflections (first posted September 11, 2001) Not knowing what else to do, in the nu…AestheticsDigital literacy is different from print literacy. How do we balance the trade-off?My job includes…
I survived the first day teaching in a masked classroom. As I expected, I had a very difficult time hearing my students. I felt awkward taking up the first class talking about myself, but I told them I’ve recently been diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder. My ears can pick up the sounds of their…