Lila Prime

It's the end of the calendar year so I'm upping my recurring donations to charities and artists. And suddenly... my hard drive is fu...

Many thanks to the nameless supermarket designers and employees whose choices in lighting, display baskets, and arrangements of tomatoes re...

There's a reason many tourist photos come out so identically: there is simply one point from which the view is spectacular, serene, wel...

Welcome to the last month of 2010. New Year's resolutions are common; I'd like to execute an uncommon plan. For December. This i...

This month feels like an aggregation of small and irksome tasks -- emails to act upon, articles to read, travel to arrange, deeds to follow-...

I've been playing around with Picasa. It's missing some features I really liked about iPhoto. I can't import my albums from iPh...

I have amassed 30,000+ pictures since I got my first digital camera six years ago. For the past few years, I have been using iPhoto to orga...

Last week I cleaned up my room and reorganized my bookshelf. I love order and tidiness. This post's theme word: cadastral, "Of or ...

Vacation is a few days over, and I've been back to work. My last post of the year will be how my brain works: all the referential highl...

All I want for Christmas is: to finish my MSc thesis; an Xbox 360;* a green Xbox controller, if it exists ; socks; and Wegmans purple-top tr...

Fall is my favorite season. I like the textures: ... and the colors: ... and my new camera. This post's theme word: serein, "Fine ...

I spent another Sunday on grading. Then swim practice. Laundry was aborted because of rain. In the hour or so of consciousness I have lef...

Celebrations of the turnover from December to January ring a bit false. But today? Today is a new year that I can celebrate. It is the be...

Other people are mysteries. I cannot understand them. A. and I discovered that we both use the following scheme to model other people's...

Although I'm still the same, just having a diagnosis makes things better, somehow. Makes me seem more reasonable. There are other peo...

I don't have a lot of free time for reading, or for context-switching between leisure reading and work, but I also love to read. So onc...

Places I have recently (sometimes disconcertingly) felt comfortable: my house my office the theory lab the doctor's office the hospital ...

My OCD has recently been ratcheting up in intensity, resulting in a cleaner-than-usual room, kitchen, and inbox. But how to deal with the e...

A week ago, I moved into my new, permanent, livable apartment. A huge thanks to my parents for driving my stuff here (thus clearing out the...