I had kind of given up on this blog, because I started a new one primarily about languages while in Darfur (only a little more than a year after first discovering the whole linguistic blog phenomenon). But I am no longer in quite so interesting a linguistic environment as Darfur, and I thought I might need a forum for some people to become acquainted with the thought life of yours truly... strange and convoluted as it may be. So I will write some things from time to time. First I'd like to write about some of my thoughts from Tristes Tropiques, by Claude Lévi-Strauss (no, nothing to do with jeans), which some consider the ethnographer's bible. I would also like to comment on some of my developping photographic aesthetic, and how it is shaped by the relative advantages of film vs. digital photography. But I already realized that it is too late to get into either of these tonight, so I will leave them for another time...