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I spent my birthday in the normal fashion
February 7, 2024
You can’t go to most onsen in Japan if you have tattoos, and I have a lot of those, so the one time I wanted anything approaching an onsen experience I found...
Me season
February 1, 2024
Today is my birthday, which thank you, that’s very kind, please sit down, we have a lot to get through today, oh my god, please. Please. Okay. I need to tell...
J1B-GT, one month
January 30, 2024
I have written text already on the jacket, but I did not own one, which made the whole affair look a little like one watched a beautiful conversation in a...
Pitched fork
January 29, 2024
They weren’t relevant until they were. They were controversial until they weren’t. They were savage until they became anodyne. They were underground until...
Notes on matched sets
January 25, 2024
You never see anyone wearing both at once, do you? And yet there they are, shirt & pants, cut from the same fabric. Theoretically this is what a suit is, but...
Three things at Draft
January 23, 2024
I’m posting this here because the main mailing list would get too loud & incoherent, too full of yes people, and my intuition would get drowned out, which we...
Another text grab bag
January 16, 2024
You will never know if your USB-C connection “works,” by any definition of works. You will never know if it is transferring the maximum amount of data, or...
Bison chili: the latest iteration
January 10, 2024
So we’ve already established that I am lousy at recipes? I basically kitchen-witch the whole thing. The only two good things that I’ve ever done are bison...
Armor, natural enough
January 8, 2024
Welcome back to text, the world’s only remaining newsletter. I hope whatever permutation of holidays you observe went well, and I’m excited to have you here...
Accretion
December 21, 2023
In keeping with holiday tradition, here is 2023’s power ranking of Oblique Strategies cards, as a predecessor to two weeks of deep rest. I am deliberately...
Drip slowdown
December 19, 2023
At the world’s greatest coffee shop last year, I noticed the barista was using a different brand of filter than the bog-standard Hario V60 ones. I asked, and...
When Shohei Ohtani stares into the sun, the sun blinks
December 15, 2023
People are asking about him. Really? That much? Yes, that much. Why? Here is some form of why, although nothing makes sense anymore.
Why I don’t show unfinished work
December 13, 2023
When I first started out in design, I made a few agreements to myself. One of them is that I’ll never show unfinished work if it’s not presented...
On resonance
December 7, 2023
A decade or so ago, I was friends with someone who liked to knit a lot. She was never without some project in her lap, moving at mach speed. Then she got her...
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...
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