Lila Prime

 I ask students to write me a joke about algorithms pretty regularly. I like seeing what they come up with... What did one cross-country sta...

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question. What is the worst pun you've ever heard? Only a few actual responses: That...

 I take attendance by having students answer a question ( previously ). What is the first word you spoke aloud? MAMA / mom (very popular) Da...

Inexplicably, people keep talking around me and my brain keeps latching on to the strange ways they arrange words and ideas. K: "96% of...

I jotted down many quotes in this time interval, because every. single. social. interaction. now feels deeply meaningful and like a carefull...

One of the continually fascinating and renewed interesting things about being... alive? Just about being a person , just about being , is of...

This Is How You Lose the Time War  by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is an epistolary romance novel(la) between opposing time-travel agent...

Today is the 106th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing . (Of course, at birth he was probably very bad at abstract reasoning and proofs,...

The  Musée de Cluny  (alternately, the Musée national du Moyen Âge;  wiki ) is a lovely museum in the center of Paris, focusing on the middl...

Things I miss about Europe (month 1, withdrawal edition). Accents, and the mental work of untangling them. Beautiful and old architecture...

During this lull in my professional life while I wait to hear from job applications, I am spending some extra non-research mental cycles goi...

Some translations are inexplicable. I  thought, foolishly I now see, that Darth Vader was a fictional character whose two-word referent wa...

Catherynne M. Valente 's The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland --- For a Little While  is a delightful prequel to her other Fairyland novels. It ...

Further adventures in my quest towards fluency. (I have long since come to terms with the fact that I will never be as hyperbolically fluent...

Well, here's an early indication that this year's Hugo nominees will be different from past years'. I just read  "The Parl...

An instance in which the precision and clarity of the writing (and sad continued state of the English language) means that the word "mo...

Yep. This warning infographic is completely clear: Possible interpretation: "do not use front crawl to race powered watercraft!...

Weirdly, blogspot.fr crashes every time I try to publish a post which includes accented characters. How is this possible? The language has...

Apartment searching in Paris is demoralizing. I thought I had reached a low when I discovered an "apartment" of 10 square meters f...