No maps for these territories

Today was a lovely day, so this morning I made myself a totally decadent serendipitous treat to match. There’s a lot of recipes for this on the web but I made this up on the spot. amaretto french toast stale french bread little splash of milk; bigger splash of whipping cream two eggs shot of [...]

ETA: it seems blog comments are broken. I don’t know what’s wrong. Phlog phail. Comments happily accepted in other mediums until I get it sorted. ETA x2: when I say I’ve worked with a lot of grad students, I mean a lot, because of my job and friendships. I’ve helped with the research for dozens [...]

I enjoy cold places. I say this based not just on my general dislike of heat and summer (I know, I know, California is wasted on me), but also because of my abiding love of Scandinavian movies. Films from Nordic countries, in addition to generally being gloomy, introspective, and wonderfully bizarre, often feature sweeping shots [...]

It feels like I haven’t written anything in months, and I’m not precisely sure what day it is. Wasn’t it April 1st, like, yesterday? Last week I was in Denver for the Museums & the Web Wikimedia workshop, along with a crew of some of my favorite Wikimedians from all over (Europe, Australia, U.S.). It [...]

The global Wikimedia Projects just hit the grand total of 1 Billion edits across the projects today around 12pm PST — you can watch the edit counter live. Just over nine years of being live… and a billion edits; that’s a big milestone. To put it in some perspective, I am personally responsible for contributing [...]

That is the name of the book within the book Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which is a haunting story about the Nigerian civil war and the brief life of the breakaway state of Biafra. The book-within-the-book is written by an English journalist who finds himself in love, first with a [...]