Or: what is the point of the work that I do? When I was in grad school and for the first part of my postdoc, I would almost proudly disclaim practical applications of the mathematics research I do. My PhD work and subsequent research takes place mostly in the subfield
Or: what I'm trying and have tried, anyway. I think I was in middle school when I decided that I wanted to learn Japanese. I think the draw was some combination of anime (also Pokémon), sushi, a sense of interesting culture and history, and the difficulty of the
This is the first in a series of posts about Japanese. I've been learning Japanese on and off since I was maybe 11. I'm not as fluent as I'd like to be (although maybe my goal of parity in skill level between English and
My family has this card game, Authors. It's basically Go Fish, except that instead of asking if people have the 10 of clubs or whatever, you're asking if they have The Last of the Mohicans, for instance. The card game was published in the 50s, apparently,
and by "in books," I mean "in books that I read, almost all of which did not come out or trend in 2025". I started using The StoryGraph in 2024; I think it came recommended to me as a Goodreads alternative by several people in my
I just clocked that like "Panic" or "Godspeed", "Surely" is two syllables long and takes to a cheeky little exclamation point like a duck to water. I was wasting a man's time the other day and mentioned I was going to see
I was trying to sort through my feelings about social media feeds, blogging, and the like just now. A very nice thing about a blog is that your stuff is yours. I wrote a lot of stuff that was posted to Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr over the years that I