Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Yesterday morning I went down to the kitchen, and in the process of making breakfast discovered that during the previous night’s kitchen cleanup, I’d neglected a single item: the lid to the steamer. It was face down, one edge on the stove top and the other on the counter, thus giving it a slight tilt. When I picked it up, I noticed a lovely patten of water droplets on the inside of the lid.
Continue reading Droplet Condensation14 January 2023
A while ago I reviewed last year, and set out some general goals for this year. Here I will lay out operational details on my plans
Thursday, 5 January 2023
Some days I spent a lot of time doing associative reading, where one text leads me to hop laterally to another text, and so on. I find this pleasurable, but often, after a few hours, have little sense of what I have learned.
Today I am going to try to track, at least partially, the path of my attention.
I did not begin here, but a good starting point is Taleb.
Continue reading Meta thoughts on meandering on the net: Taleb, Perthitic Textures and ChocolateSunday, 1 January 2023
Bright and early, well, somewhat early, we visited the Minneapolis Institute of Art to see Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi. I was struck by three things.
Continue reading The Botticelli Show
