Lila Prime

Paris is notoriously dense. Building footprints and space in the (x,y) plane are coveted and extremely valuable. (Bear with me.) So it is cu...

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...

It seems like it is every week with these races in Paris. They congest the streets, and delay the subways as select stations get paused a...

This morning I went running early, in an attempt to beat the worst of the daytime heat. Unfortunately, no amount of early rising could avoid...

I went a-dragonboatin' on the lake. The motion is very strange -- it looks like, but is completely different from, paddling a canoe. I...

I've been reading a lot of good writing recently, and thinking about what makes it good. I'd like to figure out some lessons and th...

I went sailing. It was nice -- breezy and cool, and we moved by wind power! This post's theme word: limnology, "the study of bodi...

Whoooooooo! I've enjoyed watching the world cup games when I can find a television to watch them on. High definition slow-motion sport...

It snowed mightily last night, and when I walked to campus this morning, this was the view on the rugby pitch: Yes, indeed. A scrum of snow...

Skiing is fantastic. It's like flying that is leg-controlled, favoring my bipedal body. It's amazing, so fast and powerful and thr...

I got some Yaktrax for Christmas. They're like snow tires or chains for footwear. Awesome. Very good for climbing up packed, ice-sl...

While at the Cory Doctorow reading , a nearby audience member caught my attention and said, "Excuse me. Is that a Radcliffe rugby swea...

I went to see a roller derby match last month with A. and co. It was fun, and reminiscent of rugby -- lots of falling (on pavement! with h...