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Half size, kind of

September 25, 2023

On a daily basis, my wallet contains two credit cards, my debit card, my ID, and some cash. Most of you are probably the same. Most of you carry only a few...

Juice 7 trip report

September 19, 2023

You are, above all, really tremendously tired. Your job is on fire, your dating life was on fire and now is a bunch of ashes, and your friends’ lives are...

Look, if you ate enough sacher torte to replace your body wholesale, you’d be grieving, too

September 15, 2023

You haven’t heard of Selmarie. It doesn’t have a Michelin star. It is not Beard rated. It’s not really in any guides. People like it that way, because...

Deep fried text

September 13, 2023

Look, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s so easy. It’s rice and eggs and some oil. Khai jiaow is the recipe that you learn to make in Thailand when you’re...

Summer salad interlude

September 11, 2023

Today you’re getting a foolproof recipe. Last week, a friend of mine made a summer salad that was so good that I instantly tried to reverse engineer & make...

No part of the bike share system in Chicago is confusing at all, fortunately

September 7, 2023

We’ve written text before about Divvy, the bike sharing network in Chicago, mostly about the time when they had a single red bike in a sea of blue ones and...

How to own your data

September 5, 2023

The internet was once pitched as an archive, a total codex of human knowledge. But in reality, nothing is really trustworthy on the internet. The whole thing...

Find the hits with this one cool trick

August 30, 2023

I’ve talked a lot on the professional side about Aesop, the skincare brand that makes you smell like a hotel while feeling like a design-forward cool girl,...

Roomba #5

August 24, 2023

It was a sunny, beautiful day, and I made brunch for 12 people, like I do, and they rewarded me with an intervention. You know I got a dog in April. The dog...

You can never pack a Porter again

August 22, 2023

In one sense, the form creates a framework. In another, the framework mutates and composts. Enter Yoshida Porter, a bag company that you have maybe never...

Don't talk about whether the bathrooms are clean

August 17, 2023

It’s August, which means I have thrown 487 picnics this summer. You know, enough to have this down to a science. It is time for picnic pro text. Look, one...

Paragons of carry normalcy

August 15, 2023

Look at this. Stare, like it is wreckage. They are abominations, yet not. They are luxury, yet not. They are the product, maybe, of an AI prompt to graft...

The base of pretty much everything

August 11, 2023

I had a friend over for dinner the other week. He worked as a cook for a decade; his father is a regionally famous chef. He knows food, and cooks all the...

Too much light, too little time

August 9, 2023

There’s a certain genre of internet that gives generously, provides clear outcomes, and doesn’t really ask for more, but more is there, and you can pay for...

Send only text, forever

August 7, 2023

In our previous text, I talked about how I have mostly disengaged from the merest concept of technology, an idea that is both universally correct and...

Live, log off, love

August 2, 2023

The internet is slowly failing for me, personally, and I kind of love it. This began on several fronts at once, it seemed. A major newspaper changed some...

The treatment of one pepper

July 31, 2023

It’s that time in Chicago where every farmers market vendor has shishito peppers, and you have no idea what to do with them. I have spent five years...

Potatoes weren’t expecting this to happen to them

July 27, 2023

On the one extreme, you have the farmers market. The produce is abundant and unprepared. You are handed a zucchini; you have absolutely no idea what to do...

1,000 strawberries in the shape of a strawberry

July 25, 2023

Strawberries are in season and everybody is just going about their business as if nothing happened. They look the same but are not. Each looks different but...

The quadrapartite ratio

July 19, 2023

The ratio changes, the ratio always stays the same. Dashi, soy sauce, mirin, and sake. You can read this and get the gist, but you’re also reading text, so...