Sean X. Luo

Post-postmodern Nonsense

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Miscellaneous Interests

Culinary Arts - Sean's Tasting Menu

I enjoy cooking very much.
Recipies and, in the future, restaurant reviews and wine reviews.

Merchandise Shop - Some of the designs I made in the past

Travel - Travel Photos on Flickr and Picasa

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Writing

Selected newsletter articles, and articles from my Blogspot respository.

Travelogues

Five Hours of Bus Ride
My experience of taking a long, wistful bus ride in the Yucatan peninsula of Mayan Mexico.

The Will to Survive
Some of my thoughts during a visit to two Mayan villages in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico.

Literary and Art Criticism

A review of the works of German cartoonist, Erich Ohser.

I want to be a rockstar when I grow up
Random thoughts on a train ride from New York to North Carolina chatting with a musician.

Chris Csikzentmihalyi and his edgy products
An exhibit I visited in Beijing that showcased some of MIT Media Lab's most interesting projects.

Science and Philosophy, Postmodernism, Post-Postmodernism

Academic Freedom Revisited (02/16/09)
with a Psychiatric Perspective, on Denis Rancourt's firing

Intellectuals vs. Pre-profs (12/29/08)
what I learned in graduate school

Bayes' Demon (12/24/08)
Bayesian inference, art, literature and the limits of human knowledge

The Science of Censorship (12/24/08)
A relatively lengthy article that is a combination of multiple previous blog entries talking about censorship and science, and how individual scientists can overcome certain constraints.

Shouts and Murmurs
This section includes articles that emulate the style of the column in the New Yorker of the same name.  

Diary of a Narcoleptic Dog
Don't quite recall where this one came from

The Fading Lake Lore
Inspired by a real story, I believe.

Personal History
Yet another New Yorker copycat section. Articles here ruminate over my past.  

The Language of the Machine (12/23/08)
My experience learning the various computer langauges growing up.

Last updated 12/30/2008