Category Archives: Boston
Reflections on my Experience Learning to Write Chinese Characters – Sinosplice
I read Sinosplice regularly in my Yantai and Beijing days, and I took a lot of inspiration and encouragement from John’s accounts of learning Chinese. (My Mandarin skills still tap out at basic restaurant vocabulary, but I did turn that … Continue reading
Merge Coffee
Merge Coffee is a cute lite merging game with a coffeeshop theme, from CulinarySchools.org. This is a low-pressure match and merging game, with a calm coffee shop feeling. In Merge Coffee, players have a 7X7 grid on which to place coffee … Continue reading
Timelines of “The Day Tripper”
I have to warn you that James Goodhand’s new novel The Day Tripper has a pretty rough start. At the beginning, manic pixie dream med student Holly is just too perfect to take seriously and her man-child boyfriend Alex isn’t particularly pleasant … Continue reading
She’s Everything. He’s Just Doug. – The Atlantic
She’s Everything. He’s Just Doug. – The Atlantic Three decades after Hillary Rodham agonized over taking her husband’s name, absolutely no one seems to care that Kamala Harris isn’t an Emhoff. Underneath all the sound and fury, an idea that … Continue reading
Time Travel, Aging, Artificial Intelligence
Current me, bringing news of the future to myself in, say, the mid ’90s: I have terrible news for you, Past Self. When you get older, you’ll lose some detail vision. Past me, a sweet summer child: Oh no! Am … Continue reading
Goals
What if someday I made a cool indie game, that would be amazing! What if then I finished it and released it, and then I had a game out in the world? What if I did it again and I … Continue reading
Contain Multitudes, Y’all
It’s a typical day at school, where I’m observing a junior teacher and helping her with her ESL lesson plans. I’m giving her some suggestions, some conversation prompts, some easily-modified printables for activities, and other general resources that I happened … Continue reading
Boring and Stupid
When we bought a fixer-upper, we knew it would require work, and so it was kind of funny when one day in the fall, the closet collapsed and all my clothes fell down. I packed up everything that I wasn’t … Continue reading
LFL Finds
Found this in the Little Free Library by the beach near us. Harold: That’s perfect for you! Me: Yeah! Wait… how do you know that? Do you know this Roman mystery series*? Do you know what a Vestal is? Harold: … Continue reading
Lies & Weddings ARC
Lies and Weddings, by Kevin Kwan, contains the same kind of frothy lifestyle fun as the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. Basically everyone in this novel is constantly wearing something beautiful and constantly eating something delicious. There’s social climbing, secret relationships, deep love, manipulation, … Continue reading
