of hong kong are, it turns out, justifiably famous. even if they're from a noodle bar at the airport. which is quite nice, and has sir n...

mnz : you should cultivate patrons. i have to go to reunion dinner, enjoy yours. me : if i was rich i would not need patrons now would i? tc...

turf city last night, for the parents' anniversary. what used to be singapore's horse-racing complex is now a mouldering concrete ed...

it's unclear how we got onto the subject of bread. at dinner last night at lagnaa in little india, when the subject of consubstantion an...

now this is real sweet . a 100m composited photograph by simon høgsberg. [thx phl ]

ice cream is deeply satisfying in the tropics. you cannot delay or otherwise draw out the eating, it melts so quickly after being removed fr...

among the small pleasures of living in the tropics are the early mornings, which happen between the moment when the sky begins imperceptibly...

peach garden at novena (桃苑) . mnz stood me dinner here, her gratitude being overwhelming for my contribution to various things including he...

monday morning was supposed to have been clear and moderately cold in boston, with no anticipated flight delays. so, of course, it snowed, c...

tomorrow, for just under two weeks, by way of chicago and tokyo. once again, robertson davies will be accompanying the flight--a writer of...

if tastiness results when you combine giant limas (soaked overnight and cooked until just tender) with chicken stock (made months ago from t...

make the work light. so they say, anyway. in this case, many hands make lightwork. this is a beautiful video by itoworld * of a year's w...

There are many ways of seeing, but the truest and best is with the intuition, for it takes in the whole, whereas the intellect only takes in...

halsey's in town briefly to celebrate the new year with smithies and wintry mix. like most of the bay area crew, she knows how to eat la...

Distance is where we were but empty of us and ahead of me lying out in the rushes thinking even the nights cannot come back to their hil...

some folks in missouri have found a neurophysiological basis (or at least response) to a state of selflessness . would be interesting to see...

[this prompted by bri's note on abundance .] more than a year ago, when i was back in the motherland, i went to green pasture with kc an...

the last time we had a snowstorm , the internet went funny too. just another excuse to hate on comcast. in any case, the year in review : ...

make good neighbours. this use of geolocation and RFID tags to create virtual fences for voracious kenyan elephants is brilliant! but reall...

my efforts to avoid working on these papers reach new heights of creativity almost on a daily basis. today, i took a short run out into alls...

after pestering miscellaneous individuals for months, i finally made it to the ICA today with hila, ariel, and hammer--just in time to catch...

when i was growing up, there was a regrettable phase during which my extended family invested heavily in karaoke, including expensive equipm...

merry christmas and other non-denominational greetings in addition. as usual, old masters can be relied on to save the day when predictabili...

i've been trying to articulate this thought for a while, and found someone else who did it for me (georg von wright, found in howard bec...

a few of us met on friday morning to review material for the hackman exam. around noon, a few flakes of snow began to fall. by 4pm, the grou...

Above all, re-evaluation of group traits requires propaganda. Roger Brown , Social Psychology (566)

In carrying on my own humble creative effort, I depend greatly on that which I do not yet know, and upon that which I have not yet done. Max...

there have been little other than hefty chunks from the stuff i happen to be reading. the last few weeks of term are always a stretch; every...

Understanding evolves through three phases: simplistic, complex, and profoundly simple. William Schutz , Profound Simplicity, 69 .

An incredible number of dice, always rolling, dominate and determine each individual existence: uncertainty, then, in the realm of individua...