Laundry
A Guide for the Perplexed (about Laundry)
Contains no practical advice or useful information.
Ezra Butler
Pink
Rethinking Pink.
A dispatch from Madrid, about Vilnius, Paris and Toulouse.
Personal Update
Ghosting, Apparitions & Spectra
A flash sale and a reexamination of different types of spectra.
Notes
Personal Updates & Curiosities
Today is my birthday and I'm leaving Chicago in June.
Etymology
Some Bizarre Questions
No answers guaranteed.
Polka
Semiotics and Semaphores: A History of the Polka-Dot
The Polka-Dot was inspired by the musical notation used by composers of polkas to create a staccato effect which mimicked the newly invented telegraph.
Holiday
Half-Baked Reinterpretations
Several half-baked ideas.
Indigo
Science, Commerce, and Why Indigo is not a Color.
Indigo is a pigment, not a color.
Sermons
Stardust and Hope
An exploration into the phrase "salt of the earth" in Matthew 5:13.
Blue
50 Shades of Blue
Venus, the Renaissance, salty language, and the color blue.
yellow
An Ephemeral Color
Why is "amarilla", the Spanish word for yellow so different from all other words for yellow?
math
An Etymology of Pie
Featuring shapes, colors, pastries, mathematicians, birds, and priests.