Lila Prime

 Sometimes a home-curated meal is just a bunch of lovely colors. Pink skinny udon noodles in miso broth, with a hard-boiled egg and various ...

WHEREAS the ongoing pandemic and various other elements of environmental, social, political, economic, and biological disaster loom large, a...

I went outside and discovered a spider had built an extensive web across the rear entrance of my house, spanning the door, deck, and stairs....

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...

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

It seems to be a season to do one-person projects. Naturally, I have chosen to move a fainting sofa through my house and down some stairs. I...

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

Unsure of myself with new colleagues and a new position, and wanting to maintain a certain dignity and thus obtain a level of respect (and r...

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...

The temperature this morning hovered at freezing as I walked to the office, and campus foot traffic was absent. I passed a hedge, defoliate...

If I could only be physically present with all my gchat co-existers, I would be in a room with the most awesome people all the time, from al...

Commemorating bad feelings experienced on this day, I declare it to be an International Day of Sadness. My motivation is that one day a year...

This is only the second time I've ever spent July 4th outside of the US. It feels a little hollow. It was a normal work day. There ar...

Let a worldview be an n -dimensional real vector, where each entry represents a weight (relative importance) of some aspect of the world. W...

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

Dear all, I know I tend to be secretive and defensive. So maybe you don't know, and have not yet figured out, that I am very slow to wa...

I've had the jingle from that diaper commercial in my head all day. Today (despite accidentally spilling boiling water on my hand -- be...

A few times, guys have hit on me at the gym. I don't know why -- I'm all sweaty, I'm out of breath, I'm listening to music,...

It used to be that live Lila interactions were limited to the range of the audible. No longer shall Lila be limited! I am now skypeable by...

Since arriving alone in this foreign land (O, Canada!), I have frequently doubted myself. In the spirit of “ fake it ‘til you make it ,” I ...