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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...

How to use software

September 30, 2025

One of the most interesting things about living right now is the unfolding witnessing of others’ principles in their relationship to software. Others’...

By now

September 25, 2025

By now, you should have probably eaten the jam. It has been two and a half months. I hand it to you with a label: eat it like it’s abundant. How long does it...

City commuting

September 23, 2025

In our last text, I talked a little about the process of visiting City, a mile-long contemporary artwork in the Nevada desert. This text is about the artwork...

City driving

September 18, 2025

We’ve written text about City before, which, to sum: City is a very big artwork in the true-ass middle of nowhere; it took 50 years to build, basically...

The thermos

September 11, 2025

I made a mistake the other day. For years, I’ve used a double-walled borosilicate glass carafe to make coffee in bulk. I wanted to make iced coffee for some...