Lila Prime

We've passed 100 days of self-isolation but, in the tradition of this blog, I missed it exactly and will just post some half-finished th...

I've almost completely lost my voice, but that of course should stand as no impediment to the dissemination of knowledge, which is my pr...

Nothing comes out perfectly round in practice; observe, my residence in Paris will not be a number of months divisible by 12. Thus, my gym m...

Let's take a brief jaunt into one of my most active spreadsheets: the one that tracks my macronutrients  (consumed), exercise (performed...

Fitness. The quantified self. Local eating, clean eating, health trends. We take a certain mental attitude to these topics, and it is almost...

Another couple months, another set of life experiences and retrospective thoughts about them, posted to the internet for all of noisy poster...

This summer has passed in a sleet of unusual compliments. ("A sleet" should be the collective noun for compliments. Or maybe ...

I am as much a datavore as the next internet-inhabiting member of my socio-economic-educational cohort. Right now, with a few clicks, I can ...

It's hot. I understand and endorse the Roman legions' decision to keep conquering north after this point; it's still too hot at ...

Ack. Here's an article on manhood , with many not-what-I-expected statistics that women are out-earning men, adapting to new social and ...

Horror and tension do not appeal to me as fun leisure-time sensations. I don't like  to be scared, and tense cliffhangers are unpleasant...

If you write your date in the American order (month-day-year) then today is momentous for its sequentiality: 10-11-12 (and even more momento...

I was making chit-chat with the nurse giving me the flu shot. She asked what program I was in. Attempting to be pleasant, I answered truth...

This morning at the gym, a lightbulb fell from the 2-story ceiling and smashed onto the floor. Shards of glass flew everywhere. Luckily no...

Every muscle and soft tissue from my ribs to my knees hurts. My eyes are red and unpleasant. My right ankle feels like it's trying to ...

It is HOT . The air is humid and uncomfortably close to body temperature. In fact, the adjective "close" is quite fitting -- I c...

It has been three years since I had full sensation in my knee, but the nerves continue their slow repair. One spot -- one corner -- of my k...

It's okay. The search was long and tiring. It's bigger than the old place, and quieter. A bit cold. The oven is broken. The wat...

I returned to school, to find that I lost 5 pounds, probably of muscle. From the two weeks of lounging about and not exercising. Weirdly c...

Medical imaging is so cool. My twitter avatar attests to that. Last week I learned that my uterus measures 7.0 x 3.0 x 3.5 cm... and now ...