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earth day, 1970

I ran this first in my Penn State blog. Is this the fifty-fifth anniversary? Maybe I should just bring it forward every year? Anyway, I thought it deserved a retread. A student committee asked if I’d host the art room discussions about ecology. I was in the room practically all day anyway; it was my …

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Posted bydavidstongApril 22, 2025April 22, 2025Posted inOld stuff, Penn State blog

Second Life

I was sitting on the couch watching my ten-year-old granddaughter work in Minecraft. She enjoys creating in the environment even more than in real life. “It’s more creative, Grampop.” Her words. I started to tell her about Second Life and wanted to show her - but my Penn State work has been deleted and I can’t …

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Posted bydavidstongDecember 6, 2024December 16, 2024Posted inFamily, Penn State blog

End of Second Life Recap

This is the first of two posts about the online 3D virtual world known as Second Life. It’s a re-posting of a Penn State blog post from 2010 I’d like to try to recap several years in Second Life. Brett asked how educators were using our environment, and not being an educator I thought I’d …

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Posted bydavidstongDecember 6, 2024December 15, 2024Posted inOld stuff, Penn State blog

poster fair

In the early 2000s I did a yearly workshop on preparing graduate and undergraduate poster fair posters. I did them for over five years and eventually I reached a point where I couldn’t find the time. And I thought a move to digital presentations was inevitable. I kept the material in my Penn State web …

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Posted bydavidstongMarch 10, 2024September 2, 2024Posted inOld stuff, Penn State blog, Uncategorized

update:

Posted bydavidstongNovember 30, 2022November 26, 2022Posted inCurrent, Penn State blog2 Comments on update:

old reflection

Every now and then when I’m in an ambitious reflective mood I’ll launch an archive of my old work blog and scan through several posts. I guess I still wonder what happened. I know I’ll never figure it out. I found an old post from 2007 that I used to ask colleagues about false claims …

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Posted bydavidstongFebruary 8, 2021February 8, 2021Posted inOld stuff, Penn State blog

mccloud reading (old)

This re-post of my November 2010 Penn State blog features some of Scott McCloud’s work, just in case anyone misses the nature of the post. It’s a reaction to the NMR reading featuring a chapter of McCloud’s book, Understanding Comics. I took the first page from McCloud’s chapter “Time Frames” and inserted a two page …

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Posted bydavidstongNovember 3, 2019August 6, 2022Posted inOld stuff, Penn State blog

Clarity

From November 27, 2012; my last written post for Penn State. Three days later I was gone. The blogs at Penn State go away tomorrow, and if it all disappears, this is one I want to save. Over the holiday I enjoyed several days of standing in the kitchen both cooking and preparing to cook. …

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Posted bydavidstongAugust 17, 2014September 1, 2014Posted inOld stuff, Penn State blog

blog salvage

A few days ago I received another notice from “no-reply” at Penn State reminding me of the quickly approaching deadline for the end of supported MoveableType blogs at Penn State. I’ve received many, and when I was concerned I emailed friends who assured me that the files in my PASS would not be rewritten or …

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Posted bydavidstongAugust 1, 2014August 17, 2014Posted inPenn State blog

black point / white point

From September 2012: With a prompt from Taz Tally on lynda dot com I created this file to check the printers I use to find their value range. If you retouch images and try to print them, you might find that regardless of your Photoshop skills, the images always seem to print dark or blow …

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Posted bydavidstongJanuary 28, 2014May 12, 2014Posted inOld stuff, Penn State blog

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