Harris Lapiroff

For years now, one of my pet favorites in contra dancing has been the “wowee,” a figure that involves rolling away with your neighbor across the set and immediately releasing the connection to catch your partner for a swing.

Calling Brooklyn Contra in August 2023.

Fifteen years ago, in a long lost LiveJournal¹, I wrote: Something tricky about January 1st is that it feels arbitrary—it doesn’t deliberately coincide with anything else in my life.

Up until this week Paul Biggar was on the board at a fairly substantial tech company that he co-founded.

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I have covid this week and I’ve been (purposely) using expired antigen tests to track it.

I didn’t notice this when it happened, but it looks like Lucira’s at-home molecular covid tests are back in stock under Pfizer, who acquired Lucira in bankruptcy.

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A few months ago I got pretty annoyed with Gmail.

One particular joy of 3D printing is the discovering some potential quality of life improvement, searching it up on Printables, Thingiverse, or any other 3D model repository and — lo and behold someone has designed a model for that!

I love the idea of static site generators (sometimes known as SSGs or SSBs – static site builders).

I’m starting a blog (again)!

Here’s a small purchase that’s been bringing me some satisfaction lately: I find it really annoying when an appliance comes with a long cord and no way to store it.

I’ve critiqued conversations about new “generative AI models” for the past year as often having limited imagination about what these models can do.

Last weekend I called contra dances at Somerville Porchfest on Jeff’s porch, with his band Kingfisher.

I’m increasingly annoyed with Gmail, particularly with their integrating ads into my inbox, but also general Google product antipathy.

As machine learning technology continues to push the boundaries of what we expect computers to be able to do, I think we’ll see more conversation about what sentience means and whether we’ve built a “sentient AI.”

When Signal launched a “stories” feature last year, my first thought was that it seemed pretty silly, almost a joke.

LastPass’s latest breach is not quite “bad guys have all your passwords” but it’s pretty bad and I’ve been unimpressed by their response.

At BIDA, the contra dance I help organize, as part of our caller welcome document we encourage callers to program a mixer early in the evening.

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In February 1958 London artist and designer Gerald Holtom designed the icon that is commonly recognized today as the “international peace symbol.”

Jump to recipe Earlier this year my father lost his best friend John Hayes.

Five years ago to this day—January 3rd, 2009—I wrote this in my LiveJournal¹: Something tricky about January 1st is that it feels arbitrary—it doesn’t deliberately coincide with anything else in my life.

Harmony of Song and Dance at Pinewoods, 2012 All week I have seen insects landing.

It’s nearly summer now and the world is exposed and beautiful, green and sunny, throwing itself at my feet, yet I have been thinking about loneliness.