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University professors from institutions in the USA and Dubai hosted an online workshop in creativity and design thinking called “Sketchy People” for their students. We hoped to learn how to engage our students beyond their respective institutions and classrooms by connecting them with students from other institutions who have similar educational goals and interests.

Using the online collaboration website Miro.com these students from different geographic locations completed lessons in drawing, creative writing, and typography together in real time in a virtual design studio setting. Just as they would in a physical design studio, students were able to see how others responded to different writing and drawing prompts and provide each other support and feedback.

Breaking outside of institutional boundaries with online technology for this event resulted in an extraordinary outpouring of creativity and engagement. Drawing inspiration from artist and author Lynda Barry’s book “Syllabus,” these students wrote and read aloud original stories as well as made drawings based upon the stories that they heard each other tell. In under two hours each student participant produced numerous drawings along with several written pieces and typographic examples.

This “Sketchy People” online learning event permitted colleagues separated by distance to reconnect and work with each other’s students through an innovative team-teaching approach while enabling their students to meet new people and see new ideas in action. Because the methods and communication tools utilized in the workshop are freely available to educators, future virtual workshops are easily scalable and replicable

For years I’ve watched other artists post videos of themselves working, often in videos that have been sped up for the sake of time. I have never made such a video until today. Here’s a video of me using Adobe Illustrator to draw a vector image of Rodney Dangerfield.

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Everyone was complaining about the Internet not working today. First the IP based television, then other devices dropped off of the WiFi network and couldn’t log in.

I looked at the logs and indeed I found some suspicious activity.

Hmm, these lines don’t look right to me. They are all coming in on port 80 and I’m not running any webservers.

So the first thing I did was turn off the port-forwarding to port 80 that was still turned on in my router for some reason. I used it a couple of years ago for an experimental website I was running and didn’t turn the service back off when I was finished. That was dumb!

I searched online to see if there was anything else I should know. This article suggested disabling the UPnP service. Mine was on by default, so I turned that off too.

I’m hoping no real damage was done to the router or my network. I hate the fact that I don’t know precisely why our attempts to login to the router did not work with known-good passwords. But after I reset the password, everyone was able to get logged in again using the new one.

Hopefully my fix will work for a while and we won’t have any more unwelcome visitors.

You probably grew up as I did learning that “Breakfast is the most important part of the day.” Where did that idea come from anyway, the breakfast food manufacturers? Over the past several years, I have moved away from eating regular breakfasts. I love the food of breakfast, but I usually eat it later in the day these days.

There is some science that indicates we can do just fine without breakfast and reducing our overall intake of food is a healthy thing to do. I lost a lot of unwanted pounds by quitting breakfast and eliminating between-meal snacks. My big struggle is eating too fast and having a sweet tooth that doesn’t know when to quit. I also often have too big of food portions, especially if it is something I really like, however I’ve never been the kind of person to gorge myself. If I’m full, I’m full and I don’t want to take another bite when full. So that’s when the slowing down piece makes a difference. It takes a while for the feeling of fullness to catch up to what you’ve consumed.

Basically, I’m on a see-food diet. If I see it and I like it, I want to eat it. If it is out of sight, it is out of mind and I can go a long time without thinking at all about food. But around here, there is always something good to eat within sight and reach. I just have to avoid looking at it I guess.

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