Droplet Condensation

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.

Curriculum for Q1 2023

14 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

Current foci

Figure out first MOOC
Develop miso soup and seaweed salad recipes
Get EMG interpreted and figure out next steps (late February)
Write

Meta thoughts on meandering on the net: Taleb, Perthitic Textures and Chocolate

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.

The Botticelli Show

Sunday, 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.