Monthly Archives: March 2012

Postcards to my mother

No, my mother has not returned from the dead. I’ll explain more later — I’ve been writing small bits to improve my French and the common vehicle are “postcards to my mother”. I suppose with each I should link to

Postcards to my mother

No, my mother has not returned from the dead. I’ll explain more later — I’ve been writing small bits to improve my French and the common vehicle are “postcards to my mother”. I suppose with each I should link to

A la ménagerie, 11 mars 2012

Chère Maman, Aujourd’hui, nous sommes allé au Jardin des Plantes pour visiter la petite ménagerie. Ça n’est pas une ménagerie très moderne! Mais, comme toute l’architecture dans le Jardin des Plantes, ils sont en train de rénover chaque bâtiment sans

A la ménagerie, 11 mars 2012

Chère Maman, Aujourd’hui, nous sommes allé au Jardin des Plantes pour visiter la petite ménagerie. Ça n’est pas une ménagerie très moderne! Mais, comme toute l’architecture dans le Jardin des Plantes, ils sont en train de rénover chaque bâtiment sans

La petite ménagerie

La petite ménagerie, a set on Flickr.

La petite ménagerie

La petite ménagerie, a set on Flickr.

Mondayon

If the days of the week were more expressive, starting with a missing space in the Washington Post: Mondayon Tuesmeh Wednesdayump Thursday Fridayête Saturdolf Sundayoff I was torn on Thursdour — thinking of my Thursday Happy Hours. Some things are

Mondayon

If the days of the week were more expressive, starting with a missing space in the Washington Post: Mondayon Tuesmeh Wednesdayump Thursday Fridayête Saturdolf Sundayoff I was torn on Thursdour — thinking of my Thursday Happy Hours. Some things are

When designers get things wrong

Bad color processing makes the image look unreal. Unreal as it might seem, real it is. The image comes from a slide show of what in my Twitter stream was titled “Stunning homes in Washington”. Stunning is one word for

When designers get things wrong

Bad color processing makes the image look unreal. Unreal as it might seem, real it is. The image comes from a slide show of what in my Twitter stream was titled “Stunning homes in Washington”. Stunning is one word for

When an architect gets things mostly right

After dropping the Boy at his last day of vacation class, I headed down a street roughly in the direction of the métro — this is one of my pleasures in Paris — wandering until I hit something interesting. Or

When an architect gets things mostly right

After dropping the Boy at his last day of vacation class, I headed down a street roughly in the direction of the métro — this is one of my pleasures in Paris — wandering until I hit something interesting. Or