Religion
Misreading the Absurd
I found a small error on a placard in the Jewish Museum in Rome.
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Cheese
Cheesy Flowers
Thoughts about cheese in Italy.
Laundry
A Guide for the Perplexed (about Laundry)
Contains no practical advice or useful information.
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.