hareambereyes

The Hare With Amber Eyes

A friend loaned me The Hare With Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal. This is a fascinating family memoir, as the author traces the history of a collection of Japanese netsuke that have come to him as an inheritance. The story is breathtaking in its scope – ranging from the Paris of the Impressionist painters and…

Ingress Intel Map

The world around you is not what it seems

I’ve been wasting a little time over the past few days playing the virtual reality game Ingress, which was recently released for the iPhone (previously it ran only on Android). This game has the unique feature that the field of play is the entire world, the actual real word, with virtual elements superimposed. So to…