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on July 05, 2018

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BANG (starting gun?)

hello world Miranda says that’s supposed to be the first thing you say in a new tech world, so there you go. Superstition satisfied. So, welcome! I’m Ivan, and if we keep to our planned division of labor, I’ll be doing most of the writing while Miranda does photos. She’s better at pictures. I’m not sure I’m better at writing – she’s a whole lot clearer than I am, in, like, all things – but I like this part better, I think. I dunno – maybe you should ask her. We’re starting this blog because 1.) I’ve been agitating for it for a few months, because I think I/we will be happy to read it later, and 2.) because we’re uprooting our lives and moving to Nepal, and figured we ought to follow the 2005 herd and blog about it. A little background about us: Miranda is a researcher with the University of Chicago’s SUPERgroup, where she researches usable security and privacy. Some other things I’ve seen her get excited about: cooking projects (she made a friend of hers an astoni

Got Published?

Another day, another publication. What can we say, we're just so prolific (/s). Anyways, after our stay in Kathmandu (I know I know, haven't actually posted about it here yet, but we will, eventually, I promise), Homestay.com asked if we'd like to answer a few questions about our stay. They evidently liked our answers so much that it got published as a blog post! (True facts: it's mostly Ivan's writing. I made a few tweaks, including changing "klepto monkeys" to "greedy monkeys." Comment below if that was the right change, don't comment if you think I was wrong.) Read the blog post here: https://www.homestay.com/blog/2018/07/23/homestay-in-kathmandu And stay tuned for Ivan and I's more in-depth posts about Kathmandu on our real blog! Coming soon, I promise . Really.

an illustrated guide to 30 hours of travel

Chicago O'Hare, Doha's Hamad International Airport, and Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport: a 30+ hour journey. click to enlarge (or miss excellent commentary). one last American meal of dry chicken, bacon, and ranch. Doha horizon - not a dusty camera, it really was that hazy. National Museum of Qatar, which arrived only 2 years before we did. "two sedimentary layers of city: old (dusty, low, brown, winding) and dazzling new (tall, gleaming, LED-colored, straight-lined)." a strange sentence: we took an Uber to the souq. ashamed, yet relieved, that Uber services Doha. Souq Waqif, one of the oldest markets in Doha (although, this current incarnation only looks old). the animal section was fascinating, beautiful, and sad. a taxi driver later informed us that the souq was busie

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