Week #12
march ends with particle collisions and an amsterdam folder on my desktop # Week twelve, March ending. There is now an Amsterdam folder on my desktop. This is not a...
Journey & Time
ECLIXAR
digital diary
Journal.
fragments of quiet intelligence
There is a manner in which certain things ask to be written, not so that they may be found, but because to exist in silence, for too long, eventually becomes insufficient. It is not urgency. It is something closer to a necessity that makes no noise, waiting patiently until it discovers the proper form. This archive was born in such a way.
Not as a diary. Not as a blog. Not as something that is updated merely for the sake of appearing alive. It is a place where certain thoughts come to rest, those which do not dissolve, those which return, those which insist with the silent obstinacy of things that truly belong to you...
Every article is a scene. Every word, a frame of something that would not have remained, had it not
been writtenFrom the archive.
Laws & Universe
Bang
not actually a bang, obviously, but titles are allowed to be less rigorous than detectors # Bang. I know. No audible bang. No tiny cinematic explosion underneath Geneva. Let me...
Questions & Musings
On Being a Nerd
lip gloss and particle accelerators remain compatible, thank you for your concern # Apparently I am a nerd. This has been alleged before. Evidence: I get excited about CERN, Pi...
Journey & Time
Week #11
monday again, but there is light after work now and this improves civilization considerably # Week eleven begins with evening light. That alone makes Monday less insulting. I left work...
Journey & Time
Unexpected Things
plans are useful until reality develops its own schedule # Unexpected things today, none catastrophic. A plan changed. Somebody was late. Rain arrived. One place we intended to go was...
Affinity & Heart
Father’s Day
one day late because apparently daughters can remember particle beams and still fail at calendars # Father’s Day was yesterday and yes, I called Dad yesterday, but I am writing...
Laws & Universe
3.5 TeV
two beams, three point five trillion electronvolts each, and I am excited about something I cannot see # 3.5 TeV. CERN got two proton beams circulating at 3.5 TeV each...
History & Places
Canals
apparently I am now researching water as if milan has personally failed to provide enough of it # Canals. Amsterdam again. I keep reading about the shape of the canal...
Body & Energy
Sunny Days
one afternoon of sun and milan collectively removes a layer of clothing too early # Sun today. Real enough that everybody behaved as if winter had been legally abolished. Jackets...
Journey & Time
Week #10
ten weeks already, which seems statistically rude # Week ten. Work, home, Amsterdam tabs still open, spring beginning to threaten winter, Yuri claiming we need to decide about holidays before...
Logic & Form
π
3.1415926535 and then the universe refuses to finish the sentence # Pi Day again. Yes, I am still delighted by this. No, I have not matured beyond mathematical dates. Yuri...
Questions & Musings
Different Types
people resist categories until somebody categorizes them incorrectly # Different types of people, relationships, friendships, cities, music, work, happiness. We categorize because language needs drawers. Then reality arrives and refuses...
Why?
Because every thought leaves a trace. If something moved you, disturbed you, softened you, or made you think, leave it here, quietly.