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December 19, 2025
100 bits of text after the last one, here is 2025’s Oblique Strategies power ranking. (Previously: 2022, 2023, 2024.) See you in 2026. 10. Don’t break the...
Next text
December 17, 2025
This piece is prescient. It alludes to a few text-of-center themes: how the consumer internet mostly exists to take money now, and how it’s become hard...
Line cook text
December 11, 2025
One of the ways that I am able to cleanly fake being a good home cook is by making everything family-style. I produce some cauldron of delicious slop, throw...
Stock 2 (lots of it)
December 9, 2025
I know we’ve already discussed stock. We can always keep doing that, right? It’s the holidays, which means you might have a turkey on your hands. The answer...
You need one mug
December 4, 2025
The mug arrived on my doorstep on August 18, 2015 and I have used it practically every day since, including while I write this. It is by Snow Peak. It...
Meta-font text
December 2, 2025
Since my new yardstick for buying new technology is whether you can put fonts on it correctly, I have been thinking a lot about font management on the Mac,...
Preparation
November 25, 2025
I recently encountered a person who, due to their life decisions, eventually will be forced to cook, often and with at least feigned enthusiasm. They don’t...
Sock-not-sock text
November 20, 2025
The problem is that the sock is of one place, and it was posted to another place, and now it looks like it comes from the latter place instead of the former....
The weirdest conspiracy I've ever experienced
November 18, 2025
In the greatest Simpsons episode of all time, there is a skit where the principal’s kitchen burns down while successfully hosting the superintendent. He...
Monitor text/desk text
November 11, 2025
I started dating someone and have a spare room, so of course I evicted myself from there and gave it to them and now they work there on the days they’re...
Notes on reading & publishing
November 6, 2025
Buying means researching and researching takes time, so now that I’m doing neither I find myself with a surfeit of time. I am mostly spending that time...
Unsupportable
October 30, 2025
Now that we’ve reached the conclusion of buying, it’s no longer relevant for us to discuss objects very much. Instead, we discuss their durability, how they...
You can never go home again
October 28, 2025
One of the weirdest things about my media diet is I read Pitchfork every day. I do this not because I like Pitchfork, but because it is there, it is easy,...
Open House, again
October 23, 2025
I already wrote some text about Open House once, and then I skipped writing about it in 2023 & 2024, even though I did way more and made it way bigger....
Look, things evolve
October 21, 2025
Okay, so Sichuan peppercorns. I have been working with these for 25 years and have never really gone hard on understanding how they function. This is because...
Two news, one good
October 16, 2025
So my partner has been studying to become certified as a project manager. This is apparently very hard. There is an exam and everything. Most people with...
Endgame/no endgame
October 14, 2025
What a completely normal website. Sometimes I find correct articles or ideas, but rarely do I encounter any normal, regular websites anymore. Look at it!...
Belated pesto text
October 9, 2025
We have somehow not written pesto text prior to this moment. Pesto is pretty simple: 1/4c pine nuts2c basil leaves, packed1/2c parm1/2 cup olive oil (thicken...
Chalk
October 7, 2025
Lost in the sauce of our correctly defeating the whole of baseball on November 02, 2016 was the fact that we were really good in 2015 & 2017, too. Went to...
Divvy lifehacks with your friendly cyclist pal
October 2, 2025
Our bike share network is called Divvy. It’s been owned by Lyft for a minute. Works great. Use it all the time. Divvy has a raft of blue bikes & white...
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