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Hard mode, I promise

December 5, 2023

I promise I’ll talk about non-food things very shortly, but for now I made scrambled eggs at brunch recently and everybody thought I was some kind of wizard....

Invite everyone, and then forget that you invited everyone

December 1, 2023

You put out feelers. Is this a good idea? Everybody says yes. You play it conservative. 13lb or 19lb? Smaller birds taste better and are easier to carry...

Marginal disaster example

November 28, 2023

The first thing to know about go is that you will always be terrible at it. Professionals take decades of constant play to be good at it. And nobody is ever...

How to make turkey

November 24, 2023

It’s a rare year where, for whatever reason, I have five clients over the holidays, and now I get to watch a very humorous psychic division play out.

The towel that did you dirty

November 21, 2023

I have towel problems. On the one hand, there are some bath towels in the guest room that have lasted 9 years and counting. They show no sign of wear. They...

This isn’t about barf, but all of you will think it is

November 17, 2023

My friends keep having people over and they are freaking out about it. They haven’t done this in 3 years, they say, or they haven’t done it at all, or they...

Find hunger

November 14, 2023

Fine dining in Chicago should be reasonably punk. Oh, yes, most people know of Alinea, the globally famous 3-star that pioneered molecular gastronomy...

Right plant, right time

November 10, 2023

There’s a certain genre of produce that looks, on face, to be sort of boring, but when in season it is the complete opposite. Or it’s boring in most places,...

A blunt instrument for uncertain futures

November 8, 2023

The phrase lands: …a blunt instrument for uncertain futures, with a feature set that is unorthodox, open-ended, and effective. You think I, too, am a blunt...

What tech causes

November 6, 2023

First, an administrative note: my apologies for no text this past week. I was sick. Really sick. I was so sick that I forgot to write an announcement that I...

Seeing is forgetting

October 30, 2023

How are you looking at the thing you’re looking at? In what ways are you aware of the thing you’re looking at? What are the contours of your awareness? In...

The hunt

October 26, 2023

In one sense, you are never not sourcing. Sourcing is a practice, something that goes hand-in-hand with seeing, such that you refine “what’s good” and never...

Trash people

October 20, 2023

People have to pick up the trash on their own time. Nobody does this for you. If you leave the trash to its own devices, it reproduces by sporing, somehow,...

Verlander

October 17, 2023

And like look, we want Justin Verlander to win but we definitely do not want the Astros to win. Justin Verlander is as old as I am. Justin Verlander looks...

Shrub text

October 13, 2023

I’ve been reducing the amount of alcohol in my space lately, and predictably I have been a total hippie about what replaces all of that. There are so many NA...

Some things that have helped

October 10, 2023

There are very few objects in my life that I’d classify as having universally made my existence easier, but I feel like the few that have are worth talking...

fonts

October 6, 2023

I bought a typeface recently, which is something I almost never do, so it feels like I should write some text marking the occasion. I am very into type but...

Ripstop text

October 3, 2023

Durable fabric resists tearing, which duh, but really durable fabric is engineered to resist tearing. In high-pressure environments like sailing or...

No separation

September 29, 2023

I sometimes poke around a discord for support people, which I guess got renamed to “customer experience” while nobody was looking, which fine. I do this for...

Light phone

September 28, 2023

Normally, Apple is good at the narrative. This time, Apple was not. They say “3nm process,” everyone else says “USB-C.” They trot out a giant list of iOS...