7. That feeling when you're reading some scholarship and your brain clicks and everything starts to whir and you're in flow, and suddenly the universe gets bigger and more interesting and more intricate.

Gingertecture is a combination of architecture and caricature. It’s supposed to be beautiful, informative and delicious (plus it smells wonderful).

This is my gift to you to conclude 2024.

This gingertecture is drawn from a qamarīyāt in the Islamic Art Museum in Cairo (object 497/2) which I was lucky to visit in August 2024. This is one of two depictions of a mosque-like building with two conifer trees, while others featured gardens, flowers and intricate patterns.

These clerestory windows are crafted with stained glass and stucco in a wood frame. Displayed in rows near the ceiling, each glass setting is tilted to direct jewel-like light toward the viewer at ground level.

This is a problem of how we conflate engineering and science. Students using LLMs to write is like building a robot to lift weights for you at the gym. The point of lifting the weights is for your training, not because weights need lifting