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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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!...

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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...

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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...

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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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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’...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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New era/what’s next/meta-text

September 9, 2025

I threw a garage sale the other day and, because I have taste, it was wildly successful. Pretty much everybody bought something, and I ended up with enough...

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Ex-sunchoke

September 4, 2025

Sunchokes are very weird. They’re not related to artichokes or the sun. They’re a tuber, like a potato, and they look like a bit of ginger with some knobs...

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Dumper text

September 2, 2025

The job of a catcher is largely to catch. You use the force of your very large, very muscular body to absorb the force of about 150 pitches that are thrown...

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One perfect evening

August 28, 2025

I’ve written about the perfect evening privately before, but never on text. That changes now. I speak frequently with my friends about my perfect evenings....

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