Travis Knapp
@tknapp.bsky.social
Erstwhile early modernist. Current instructional designer.
I don't want to get out of bed.
January 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I don't want to get out of bed.
Fun little bug: the built-in Windows thermometer took a brutally cold temperature and made it to extinction-level hot.
December 4, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Fun little bug: the built-in Windows thermometer took a brutally cold temperature and made it to extinction-level hot.
Can friendly sarcasm be a good teaching trait? I think my grammar students may be sending me a message...
October 14, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Can friendly sarcasm be a good teaching trait? I think my grammar students may be sending me a message...
I came to Italy for the art.
July 23, 2024 at 12:44 PM
I came to Italy for the art.
Athens is hot, but the view from the hotel is nice.
July 11, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Athens is hot, but the view from the hotel is nice.
Summer teaching wears on you differently than regular teaching...
June 27, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Summer teaching wears on you differently than regular teaching...
Not a bad lunch spot, I think.
June 23, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Not a bad lunch spot, I think.
I attended zero of my 3 university commencement ceremonies. Somehow that didn't disqualify me from being selected to give the faculty reflection at today's ceremony.
May 11, 2024 at 9:50 PM
I attended zero of my 3 university commencement ceremonies. Somehow that didn't disqualify me from being selected to give the faculty reflection at today's ceremony.
I don't have words for all the terrible things happening on college campuses this week. For distraction that amuses my childishness, I present the Early Modern spelling of assuage as presented in the Norton's KJV, Job 16:5-6.
May 2, 2024 at 2:42 AM
I don't have words for all the terrible things happening on college campuses this week. For distraction that amuses my childishness, I present the Early Modern spelling of assuage as presented in the Norton's KJV, Job 16:5-6.
I love how DuoLingo prioritizes relevant vocabulary. Definitely a phrase I'll use when I visit Italy this summer...
March 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM
I love how DuoLingo prioritizes relevant vocabulary. Definitely a phrase I'll use when I visit Italy this summer...
Trying to course prep my linguistics course. What a nice, feasible, and accessible exercise...
March 6, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Trying to course prep my linguistics course. What a nice, feasible, and accessible exercise...
When you love Bach and are more of an instrumentalist than choral fan, you know it's a good concert when the Vespers were great, but the organ pre- and postlude (St Anne) may have been better...
February 19, 2024 at 1:03 AM
When you love Bach and are more of an instrumentalist than choral fan, you know it's a good concert when the Vespers were great, but the organ pre- and postlude (St Anne) may have been better...
Not always the biggest fan of living in North Dakota, but being an hour away from a symphony that puts on good programs is pretty nice.
January 28, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Not always the biggest fan of living in North Dakota, but being an hour away from a symphony that puts on good programs is pretty nice.
The Christmas office. Three services in two days.
December 25, 2023 at 4:56 PM
The Christmas office. Three services in two days.
I guess being the Shakespeare professor means I can expect to find random old editions of plays in my campus mailbox. Gotta say, older Cliff Notes editions are cooler than the modern yellow jackets.
November 6, 2023 at 3:46 PM
I guess being the Shakespeare professor means I can expect to find random old editions of plays in my campus mailbox. Gotta say, older Cliff Notes editions are cooler than the modern yellow jackets.
Finally, another DuoLingo phrase relevant to my life in North Dakota
October 26, 2023 at 2:35 AM
Finally, another DuoLingo phrase relevant to my life in North Dakota
Did I use a lesson on visual rhetoric sneak this photo of Lancelot Andrewes's tomb into my freshman composition today?
Maybe.
Maybe.
October 2, 2023 at 11:32 PM
Did I use a lesson on visual rhetoric sneak this photo of Lancelot Andrewes's tomb into my freshman composition today?
Maybe.
Maybe.
DuoLingo is really trying to comment on my profession - from the same lesson.
September 13, 2023 at 3:17 AM
DuoLingo is really trying to comment on my profession - from the same lesson.