(title inspired by Taylor & Wheeler’s Parable of the Surveyors, Spacetime Physics)
Imagine a room of students waiting for an exam to start. They talk in hushed tones about concepts and equations none of them really understand, reciting formulae like mantras. The room is cold with excess air conditioning and barely stifled dread.
The proctor — a […]

by Mia on 12:06 am, March 30, 2007 in academics none spoke

And the sky is her mantle.
Was doodling at a coffee shop a while back and came up with a very simple lineart I decided to ink and… pattern-ize. I’ve done something similar before — Hikarunai — and it was fun, so I tried to see if I could do it again. Filling in space with […]

by Mia on 12:20 am, March 23, 2007 in visuals (11) spoke

The Ninth Elegy
Rainer Maria Rilke
Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely
in the form of a laurel, slightly darker than all
other green, with tiny waves on the edges
of every leaf (like the smile of a breeze)–: why then
have to be human–and, escaping from fate,
keep longing for fate? . . .

by Mia on 6:51 pm, March 20, 2007 in echoes none spoke

For Econ 102, Microeconomics, we were required to write a 2-3 page “memorandum” addressed to our professor regarding a microeconomic problem. The memo was supposed to contain a discussion on the background of the problem, issues related to it, possible solutions, etc. Since I’m working (trying; it’s not going too smoothly right now) on a […]

by Mia on 11:58 pm, March 8, 2007 in academics none spoke

I finally decided to update lLnet — years after the last update — and the first order of business, of course, was to create new images for it. As I’m experimenting more with outright “painting” (via brushes) than image composition (via source images), I didn’t use any image sources for this one.
The Latin quote is […]

by Mia on 2:28 am, March 2, 2007 in visuals none spoke