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I see a lot of moaning and criticism when it comes to kids going to college. Students are forced to take classes that serve no purpose. Everything they need is free and online. The loans are soul crushing. Basically, it’s an enormous waste of time and money. It’s echoed by graduates facing the cold, hard…
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Hip Hop encompasses music (rap), dance (breaking/popping), and art (graffiti). There’s nothing else like it that I can think of; what does a Jazz musician paint or draw? How does an Abstract Expressionist sing? This article in NY Times gets it wrong. It doesn’t consider that making letters is a form of human expression. I…
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I like to think of history as a series of polar fluctuations. Old vs. new. Totalitarianism vs. shared governance. Baroque vs baroque. The history under consideration is how we consume visual content. The fluctuation is one of aspect ratio: landscape vs. portrait. I don’t know when we began distinguishing content from not content. Content began…
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I finally finished a working version of a Figma plugin I’ve been tweaking for years. Figma is one of the coolest pieces of software I’ve ever used, and makes up the majority of my coursework these days. When COVID hit, my students were forced to work from home on whatever computers they had access to.…
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My dad came up with this thing-if you bet against your team, you’re happy either way. Either your team or your wallet wins. I don’t know if I agree, but I do like the idea of it. Especially when taken to the extreme. I don’t think you can ever be happy either way, but I…
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Hot tub 104, and its 14 out Sleeping in a 50° room piled under blankets Dead silence when you want it Sweater collection Boot collection