I’m interested in the way the “Thin Blue Line” design remixes the American Flag. I’m amused by the quirky way the “Thin Bread Crust” meme remixes the remix. As I was fact-checking (as I habitually do before sharing) I found a 2018 USA Today article reporting that “drivers/sales workers and truck drivers” suffered 135.9…
This is a mask. It prevents the spread of coronavirus. This is not a political statement. It’s a mask. Please wear a mask. #factsfirst😷 pic.twitter.com/1nY7FAEHi1 — CNN Communications (@CNNPR) July 31, 2020 Similar:On Stephen Hawking, Vader and Being More Machine Than HumanIn one version of Hawking’s eulogistic s…CybercultureWriting Tips for Critical Thinking Critical Thinking Matters…
Similar:Solitaire ChessSpent a relaxing evening in playing soli…AmusingMy parents doing their daily crossword puzzle.PersonalAnd yes, that's her picture in the program (from the PPT Shakespeare contest).At PPT’s The Diary of Anne Frank. …CultureThe girl asked me to read R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) to her. #quarantine #partylik…BooksHow are you holding up? What difficult choices have you made?…
I don’t have scientific expertise. I work with people who do. I trust their informed opinions on scientific matters far more than I trust my own ability to “do the research” in areas where they have far more expertise than I do. I would not expect a metallurgist to be able to fix my rusty…
Hard-hitting column from Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post. Baseball is facing a new crisis not even a week into its pandemic-delayed season. It’s an axiom in sports: Your results speak for themselves. The scoreboard says more than a dozen major league baseball players are sick after just five days of play, and the only…
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break After a tight recap of Part 1, we pick up where we left off. The jerry-rigged deflector dish weapon unleashes all its sparkly-glowy MacGuffinality at the vessel containing the Borgified Picard, and — nothing. “Your resistance is hopeless, Number One,” Locutus intones, borrowing Picard’s nickname for Riker. Chills! On…
We understand many readers find the kraken’s point of view dangerous, but that is why we offered it for public scrutiny and debate. Though Trallonous’ position may have seemed clear from the moment he regurgitated thousands of sailor bones to block every exit out of town, it is always important to critically examine where the other side is coming from. Doing so allows us to better understand the sea demon’s perspective (we should be his food) as well as our own (no we shouldn’t).
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break The Enterprise-D finds a crater where a colony used to be, then apparently does nothing for a few days until a team from Starfleet Tactical arrives. Because it will soon be dark at the site, and tricorders apparently don’t work at night, Riker says they’ll wait until morning, and…
Similar:More #steampunk control panels. Recessed workstations with fold-down keyboards. #blender3d…PersonalMade it to the closing performance @quantumtheatreDramaI just installed the "Old Layout for Facebook" plugin for Chrome.I just installed the “Old Layout for Fac…CybercultureYou aren’t doing it wrong… if no one knows what you are doing.Personal13: The Musical Promohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40MbeApiX…Culture#4C18 snack still life.Personal
After mounting a half-hearted defense of a woman who says masks don’t work, that there’s a cure for COVID-19, and that doctors make medicine from DNA from aliens and that experts are working on a vaccine that makes you immune from becoming religious, Trump ends a press conference by walking out of the room. Background…
Similar:A lost generation of news consumers? Survey shows how teenagers dislike the news mediaMore than half of the teens surveyed bel…Culture20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don't GetI expect my English majors not to balk w…AcademiaRightful Heir (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 23) Worf's quest for the return o…Rewatching ST:TNG Worf is uncharacter…CultureFor the record, if I…
Similar:So many dials to polish. More workstations. #steampunk #neovictorian #design #aesthetics #… AestheticsComputers and Writing 2020 Funding Request: SubmittedMy contributions this year are a worksho…AcademiaBlank template details and a wider view of a 30cm x 30cm grid of brass and glass #neovicto…PersonalThis is the first time during the pandemic that we’ve brought this game out.…
Similar:"A Mushroom at Last… A Mushroom Forever"I asked my 10yo why she was moping. “…AmusingPics from Thursday's dress rehearsal of Shrek: The Musical. This weekend only! @stage…PersonalMy 13yo homeschooler had no idea how to open a little milk carton. I had to show her.CultureLaying out our anti-socialization defenses & cleaning out the penitence shack for…
Similar:Work / Life Balance: UnlockedI think I must be doing something right …AcademiaAnother sold-out Midsummer Thursday night. PersonalRussian Grand Ballet Swan Lake.PersonalWhen you hear your daughter the understudy is going on for a sold-out show. Live theater i… CultureGreensburg student wins Shakespeare contest A Greensburg student did the Bard pr…CultureShy Preschooler Won't Say Her Lines in…
This article focuses on a police officer who had just completed training in how to de-escalate an encounter with a mentally ill citizen, and just three days later found himself face-to-face with a mentally ill woman with a gun (and her toddler with a sippy cup). De-escalation training gives cops better tools than AR-15s, and…
Configuring socially distanced seating and maintaining sanitation protocols in the rough-hewn, Civil War-era barn that houses the theater would be difficult, [executive artistic director Pat Beyer] said.
“I cannot see this structure being brought up to speed in today’s climate. They still haven’t worked out yet how theaters will operate,” she said. “If they can’t figure out what to do at Heinz Hall and the Benedum, how do they expect me to figure it out?”
German uses esse “to eat” for people, but frisse “to feed on” for animals. This is a bear, so “I am eating a potato” should naturally be “Ich frisse eine Kartoffel.” But it’s an anthropomorphized talking bear, which implies the self-awareness of “Ich esse eine Kartoffel.” But surely a bear that knows…
Powerful assessment of Donald Trump, written by Peter Wehner, a speechwriter who served Reagan and both Bushes. For context, here’s what Wehner writes about the conservative movement during the Reagan years: The conservative movement in the 1980s, although hardly flawless, was intellectually serious and politically optimistic. And Reagan himself was a man of personal decency,…
Similar:More #Blender3D practice. Making many objects to liven up a #steampunk environment.PersonalQuoth the ramen, "Eat some more!"PersonalThe girl will be dancing as the Gold Fairy in Laurel Ballet's Sleeping Beauty tonight… PersonalIt's exam week, and at the moment I have exactly one unmarked assignment (for a paper due …It’s exam week, and at the moment I…
Background for Trump’s remarkable pivot to a pro-mask stance. First, here’s a report from the right-leaning Forbes, last week. One possible reason for Trump’s continued public embrace of Fauci–even as he shirks his advice behind the scenes–is Fauci’s popularity: an Economist/YouGov poll released Wednesday showed 55% of voters surveyed have a favorable view of Fauci…