[also see this article ] so, here is the stake in the ground, the brief explanation of kaiseki that rejects as fundamentally flawed the idea...

a new year begins, and work and research projects begin to coalesce or, in some cases, resurface. here's what's on the plate: a quan...

When we conjure up impressions, ideas, and images of the engineer, we tend to think of an ingenious individual and Promethean spirit who ove...

if you are lucky enough to live in brooklyn, close to di fara , you have the opportunity to eat, daily if you so desire, a pizza that wil...

went to lechmere tonight in search of a tasty beverage and can confirm that 1) it is infested by chain stores, 2) all of which are closed af...

through an improbable sequence of events, i wound up in paris for 10 days a few weeks ago. i spent most of that time underground, reading fo...

on my way home today, inspired by housemate ben's example, i stopped in at the sackler to see the latest rotation of the review exhibiti...

are done with; suddenly, there is a sense of release, and the days are filled with hours to each of which a determinate number of pages to b...

We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory? Operationally, somebody went out with a retina or a measuring sti...

the height and pitch of the back are perfect. these chairs are literally strewn all over parisian parks and gardens but, despite repeated se...

on a street north of the rue de rivoli, just a few blocks away from le laboratoire .

turns out ike jime (the mystical japanese fish-killing technique) yields better-tasting, better-textured fish by acclamation. the folks at ...

i keep telling people that being a graduate student is, apart from the comparatively lousy pay, the best thing ever: you get to do stuff you...

the final issue of convivium, image from hortus . this is my latest minor fixation: convivium (from the publisher of hortus ). a serial fes...

pachaug pond this weekend. on saturday evening, the sky at dusk was wreathed in pale cirrus clouds that appeared to emanate from the sun, wh...

are software-controllable iphone camera settings too much to ask for? so it would seem. i've been meaning to do these for a while; final...

it is not often apparent how translation affects poetry. below, Рождественский романс by joseph brodsky, in two english translations. i know...

to the economical, concise, well-written journal article? it has vanished , is what.

new little friend

finished converting the rescued trek elance frame to a fixed-gear singlespeed today, after 2 hours of sawing and then grinding a steel drop...

History is first and foremost a tangled net of events. Each event lies in dozens of stories, determined and overdetemined by the causes flow...

labo group gave out a few hundred of these le whif s today at TEDxBoston . 200mg of chocolate, aerosolized (i assume). powerfully weird,...

about a month ago, i passed by lever house on the way up to the park avenue armoury to see anthropodino with ami. anthropodino, image from ...

from life work , by donald hall

A group's tolerant attitude toward, and encouragement of, the efforts of another group to raise its power and social standing requires t...

Although it is easy to fit any given segment of the past neatly and intelligibly into the patterns of world history, contemporaries are neve...

we finally have the internet back. 37 days, 39 phone calls ( 192 AT&T minutes ), and 6 service visits after ordering verizon dsl service...

would someone buy me a block of aerogel ? (what is aerogel? find out here and here .) you can do all sorts of neat things with it . it is a...

why, cambridge, can't you have one of these? (or one of these ?, or one of these ?)

after a few false starts, i've figured out the activation schedule on this starter that's been growing for almost two weeks. last ni...