I wanted to make the most of this year’s Spring Recess. Below are a few things that I accomplished during this late semester respite: a computer storage upgrade, installing Mac OS X Leopard on QEMU, finding Star Wars action figures on eBay, beginning a generative AI and pedagogy bibliography, and spending time with Y. Upgraded …
Category Archives: Television
The A-Team: Sky Dragons in Translation
This afternoon, Y and I caught the beginning of The A-Team first season episode “Holiday in the Hills”–one of many episodes that reveal the horrors of the home front, in this case the backwoods of South Carolina. While we were watching the episode, Y shared this very interesting bit of information with me: in Taiwan, …
Interview with Producer, Writer, and Director of the 1977 Educational Children’s TV Show “Space Station L-4,” Paul Lally, Oct. 3, 2013
Late last year on October 3, 2013, I had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Lally, the producer, writer, and director of an educational program from 1977 called “Space Station L-4.” Now, Paul is the Executive Producer of Caio Italia with Mary Ann Esposito. Space Station L-4 was distributed by Children’s Television International and shown on …
Maillardet Automaton and The Invention of Hugo Cabret
I have not yet had a chance to see Martin Scorsese’s Hugo or read the book that it is based on, the Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. However, I do want to see the film, because I am fascinated by automatons, the forebears of robots. The New York Times has an article about …
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PBS to Air Steve Jobs, One Last Thing on November 2
According to the Unofficial Apple Weblog, PBS will air Steve Jobs, One Last Thing, a new documentary with a special, unseen interview with Jobs on November 2–check local listings for the time. Find out more about the documentary here: PBS to air Steve Jobs documentary | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog. In the meantime, I …
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