Back in 2003, shortly after I moved with my wife and two young children to take my current job, I was eager to make new friends and rebuild my social network. One evening, my wife agreed to watch the kids so I could drop by the local branch of a national service organization in which…
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. @thepublicpgh Similar:I Love Books: A Campus Library EvolvesI love books. I love smelling them, t…AcademiaEducated, uplifted, boosted, and fed. Block party celebrating August Wilson continues thro…CultureCarolyn Jerz (Viola): Meet the cast of Twelfth Night! #PSTTwelfthNightMeet the cast of Twelfth Night! (May 2-1…CultureIn May, 2001 I…
[A] popular type of generative AI model can provide turn-by-turn driving directions in New York City with near-perfect accuracy — without having formed an accurate internal map of the city. Despite the model’s uncanny ability to navigate effectively, when the researchers closed some streets and added detours, its performance plummeted. When they dug deeper, the researchers…
I was perhaps a bit more conversational and chipper than usual during class today. A grinning student asked what I was drinking. (It really is just iced tea.) Similar:Me: Carolyn, are you ok? Carolyn:Just reminding myself that I am a gift.AmusingThree different sized buildings. Still working on variations for the biggest one. #blender…Three different sized…
I create five color variations of each #blender3d building I #design, and each of those has closeup, high, mid, and low resolution variations. It’s tedious but enjoyable. Kinda like knitting. #medievalyork #mysteryplay #aesthetics Similar:Carolyn as Hodel and Peter as Lazar in the Stage Right homeschool Fiddler on the Roof.PersonalWearable Tech: Rest in Peace, Google Glass:…
Journalism is not a crime. It’s not a crime if it offends the powerful. It’s not a crime if it doesn’t offend them enough to suit you. Yes, journalists make mistakes. Yes, you should take a break from doomscrolling for your mental health. But the First Amendment freedom of the press is crucial to democracy.…
I just caught myself thinking, “This doesn’t suck.” #medievalyork #mysteryplay #blender3d #design #aesthetics Similar:Firstborn (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 21) Worf prepares his reluctant son f… Rewatching ST:TNG Worf awkwardly rehe…CultureWood pile stacking animation (Blender 3D)For a medieval project, I wanted a wood …AmusingOverflow seating for the 50th anniversary of the canonization of #elizabethannseton…
As part of an ongoing bid to get his hands on Vantablack, the super dark, light-absorbing material to which Anish Kapoor controversially has the exclusive license, artist Stuart Semple has legally changed his name to… Anish Kapoor. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,” Semple told me. “I like the idea of being able to try a name…
Predatory publications are not concerned with writing quality (or even coherence), and thus also do not care about writing tools (although we could, perhaps, include generative AI as a tool that replaces those used by human authors). The rules change pretty radically as the predatory version does away with nearly all of the rules in…
Our family has seen David Whalen in the persona of Sherlock in five or six different shows. So happy Carolyn will be on stage with him this time. Similar:My Shakespeare students are off peer reviewing their term paper rough drafts. I’m official…AcademiaJANE EYRE Steps In and Out of Darkness at PICTJane Eyre is not a two-person…
“While my dad has always spoken lovingly and fondly of his old Camaro he sold for my ‘diaper money’ he was never sour about it,” Jared confesses. “There wasn’t negativity about it. He wasn’t sad. He wasn’t angry. He talks about the selling of the car like it was a duty.” This diaper money Camaro…
“While my dad has always spoken lovingly and fondly of his old Camaro he sold for my ‘diaper money’ he was never sour about it,” Jared confesses. “There wasn’t negativity about it. He wasn’t sad. He wasn’t angry. He talks about the selling of the car like it was a duty.” This diaper money Camaro…
I may have mentioned that I have a daughter who does things. @frontporchtheatricals 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…AcademiaMy Shakespeare students are off peer reviewing their term paper rough drafts. I’m official…AcademiaI have more to…
If you like bloody, singing, punning demons you will love this show. Similar:The Girl at rehearsal (where else?).Personal13: The Musical Promohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40MbeApiX…CultureThe geekling is 14 today.PersonalThe Outcast (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 17) Genderless civilization oppress…Rewatching ST:TNG Members of a ge…CultureYou aren’t doing it wrong… if no one knows what you are doing.PersonalSins of the…
I am not in the splash zone but still definitely out of my comfort zone. Support the arts in your community. Similar:Vortex (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 12) Rogue spins a tale about meeting oth…Rewatching ST:DS9 At the bar, Quark a…CultureI felt a great disturbance in the Fandom”…as if millions of voices suddenly cr…AestheticsAnother delightful…
I have a daughter who does things. If demon curses and buckets of stage blood are your thing, join the fun this weekend in Greensburg. (I will not be seated in the splash zone.) Similar:George Joseph Jerz (1933-2023)George Joseph Jerz, born on September 3r…EmpathyA new headshot for the girl.PersonalWonderfully Detailed Tribute to 1970s British TV…
Yes, Duolingo is free and I’ve learned a lot. No, I don’t like the psychological manipulation. I’m still using it but I changed my user name. Similar:Valid for any new yearEthicsUnmarked papers today. How it started, how it's going.PersonalBattle of Agincourt — 600 Year Anniversary of Henry V's "St. Crispin's Day Speech"Sure, Marty McFly Day is…
“Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes. I can’t believe I just had to type that.” — Michigan-based meteorologist Katie Nickolaou. A wide range of misinformation has been spread as Helene and then Milton gathered pace in the Gulf of Mexico, such as claims spread by Trump that Fema had run out of cash for hurricane survivors…
It’s so heartbreaking seeing the amount of disinformation being spread by elected officials and partisan agitators with lots of followers. FEMA is not out of money, it’s not confiscating damaged property, and it’s not biased for against any ethnic groups or political affiliations. Similar:Random #steampunk workstation with a porthole, because why not. Most of the…
My mother-in-law invited me to try out the 60- year-old tape machine that belonged to my father-in-law. When I worked in radio news in the late 1980s, we were still loading reels and splicing tape, so it all came back to me pretty quickly. Similar:Alice in Quantumland: A Charming Illustrated Allegory of Quantum Mechanics…