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RPG Lists of things to roll for: #1 - Dreams

1/20/2021

 
Dungeon masters or game masters can have players roll a D20 (a twenty-sided die) to generate the following dream content for conversation, character development, plot prompts, or time-filler.
  1. A shambling mound chases you in a swamp. You trip and get sucked into a sweet syrup and wake up suffocating in a sugary sweat.
  2. Flowering trees along a gravel trail. The wind blows petals around you.
  3. A picnic in an abandoned town after a war.
  4. Dogs. Lots of friendly dogs.
  5. A reflecting pool that did not show your face.
  6. A talking rodent that lead you to an underground political rally for rodents.
  7. A delicious squid sandwich. Wait, do squids exist in this world?
  8. Kissing a frog, and then another, and then another, to find your prince or princess. (You never found them).
  9. A one-eyed eagle picks you up by the talons and takes you to its nest to feed you to its young.
  10. A suspicious package arrives for you at the traveler's inn.
  11. A voiceless bard singing the lullaby your mother once sang.
  12. You grow a very long beard but the hair on your head all falls out.
  13. A necromancer raises an army of all the spiders, mosquitos, and centipedes you've ever killed.
  14. You find a baby ogre orphan on the side of the road and decide to raise it as your own.
  15. Your friend shows you a mysterious crystal that channels time. You decide to relive your favourite day ever. It was...
  16. The blacksmith has finished your new shield, but it is a jigsaw puzzle and you have to put it all together.
  17. As you stop to inspect a strange tree, you discover a bumble bee library with thousands of bee books and bee patrons.
  18. You make a semi-underground home in a grassy hill only to find it is the side of a giant's head.
  19. A sentient boat kidnaps your family and you chase it across the seas until it capsizes by a rocky peninsula.
  20. While preparing the evening meal for your party, you accidentally chop of your fingers and put them into the soup.

A list of Museum-Related Online Courses

5/29/2019

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Online - Anytime
  1. Exhibition Design, Udemy
  2. Introduction to Digital Humanities, Harvard EdX
  3. Creating & Conserving, Khan Academy
  4. Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael, Open Learn
  5. Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge, Open Learn
  6. Introduction to Material Culture, Open Learn
  7. Smithsonian’s Objects that Define America, EdX
  8. Tangible Things: Discovering History Through Artworks, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens, and the Stuff Around You, Harvard U, EdX
  9. Modern Art and Ideas, MOMA, Coursera
  10. Seeing Through Photographs, MOMA, Coursera
  11. Fashion as Design, MOMA, Coursera
  12. In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Paintings, MOMA, Coursera
  13. Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies in the Classroom, MOMA Coursera
  14. Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes, MOMA, Coursera
  15. Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art, MOMA, Coursera
  16. Modern Art, MOMA
  17. Indigenous Canada, University of Alberta, Coursera
  18. Art Appreciation Course, The Art Institute​


Recorded Webinars
  1. Break the Budget Bubble: How to Build and Read Budgets, AASLH
  2. Understanding Provenance, AASLH
  3. Deaccessioning: The Devil's in the Details, AASLH
  4. Caring for Photograph Collections, AASLH

Specific Courses With Timelines
  1. Continuing Education Oxford University
  2. MoMa Online Courses
  3. Coursera Art History Courses
  4. American Association for State and Local History online courses & webinars
  5. NODE Curatorial Studies Online
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Buddha's Birthday - Lotus Lantern Festival in Seoul

4/30/2017

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Seoul-mates

4/17/2017

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View of Seoul from Namsan mountain when we hiked up it this past weekend.
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Why try to cope at all?

12/15/2016

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Housekeeping was my first view of Marilynne Robinson's writing. My thoughts are still in processing, having just finished the book today. One reviewer called the protagonist's sister, Lucille a conformist, as though we are directed to view her negatively. However, I think she simply wasn't the protagonist, and that the frequent desire to label the protagonist as having a "right" way is a form of comfort and yearning for certainty that Robinson is challenging. We are often told the stories of laudable children with grit and how "successful" they are, a very Lucille perspective. Ruthie's story offers an alternate view and challenges the notion of success and the notion of suicide versus staying alive. It reminded me of Annie Dillard on writing, "Why not shoot yourself, actually, rather than finish one more excellent manuscript on which to gag the world?" (Dillard, The Writing Life, 1989). Our reasons for living and not living and our reasons for writing or staring out of a window or attempting to sew a dress and make friends are all really curious methods of coping with the same sets of problems of existence as a lone individual in a world we keep trying to ascribe meaning to.

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leaving Glasgow soon

8/30/2015

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photo by Natalia Toronchuk
The marvellously moving Auguste Rodin’s “Eve” in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.
“Adam and Eve wept some human tears, but soon they dried them. Before them stretched the whole world, where they must choose a place of rest, with Providence as their guide. Hand in hand through the land of Eden, with slow and wandering steps, they began their lonely journey.” (Paradise Lost by John Milton, “translation” by Dennis Danielson)
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My first photo credit

1/14/2014

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I have the honour of having a photo published in the January/February 2014 issue of the Canadian Museums Association. You can check the entire issue out, or just look for the article on the Redpath Museum’s Zoology Collection Manager.
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