Head in the Clouds27 March, 2012
I was recently reminded of how much technology has affected not only the way in which live and communicate, but also what we understand and expect of technology itself. This is especially true with something like Google, which has firmly embedded itself into our consciousness and our culture. It’s effectively invisible because it’s such a basic part of modern living. Continue Reading
Welcome to Vitae10 January, 2012
Welcome to the new Reality Equation.
A lot has changed here and I’m really excited to introduce this new design. I hope you take a look around and tell me what you think.
- New design: Vitae is a minimalist, typography-based design that accommodates the journal, my design portfolio, a gallery of select photography work and, for the first time, my music.
- Reorganized home page…
Working on a Redesign15 July, 2011
Things have been a bit quiet at Reality Equation.
Since my last post, I’ve traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal and have been uploading photos to my Flickr stream. I do have lots to write about — the city’s first Italian language and culture center, finding cafés with free WiFi and thinking of food as music — but I’m taking a break from writing for something else that’s long due: a redesign.
Vitae, the new design, and will be an experiment in minimalism. I’ll be switching to HTML5 (with its new tags and media capabilities!) and CSS3 and will finally be using @font-face, thanks to Google Web Fonts. Continue Reading
Be it English or French: The Subjunctive18 April, 2011
What’s really interesting is that my friend, a native English speaker (American), was puzzled when I said that the subjunctive is much more common in everyday French than it is in everyday English. The question was obvious: what’s the subjunctive in English? Continue Reading
Returning from Bologna30 December, 2010
The trip back to Paris from Bologna will be impossible to forget. It involves spending way too much time inside the aircraft, learning Chinese to distract ourselves, landing in the wrong city and staying up at an airport. Let me start from when we reached the airport in Bologna. Continue Reading
To Modena with Valeria26 December, 2010
In about six hours, I’ll be leaving for Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport in Italy. This isn’t the first time I’m going to the country, but it will be my first-time in the city of Modena, near Bologna. And the first time I’ll be seeing Italian life up-close. Unlike my fem dagar i Stockholm, this be [...] Continue Reading