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Not for everyone, maybe for you
June 6, 2024
If you want to know what the inside of my brain sounds like, you could do worse than the Deep Ark, a brief eight-hour mix of mostly nineties IDM. It is...
Lore Guy comeback
June 4, 2024
There are many genres of baseball star. One of them is the record-breaker who goes against all received wisdom and changes history. One of them is the person...
Bluetooth as surrender mechanism
May 30, 2024
It should be present, perky, wanting to help. You turn the device on and it connects. It tells you it’s connected. Status is relayed. This is feedback,...
The fancy furniture curse
May 28, 2024
This is the problem: you finally get that chair or that table, the one you had been coveting for years, the one that you know has the lore and the aura and...
The value of a simple wreck
May 24, 2024
I woke up, showered, went downstairs to begin my work day, and then heard some form of the end of the world. There is major construction happening four doors...
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May 22, 2024
I won’t say the household has perfected popcorn, but we’ve come close, and people keep raving about it. It has once again come to this: people think I am a...
Middle kid
May 20, 2024
I’m writing this on an iPad. I have owned it for six years, materially half of the iPad’s existence. The keyboard is beaten to absolute hell. I have written...
Albini
May 16, 2024
Look, without him there would be no Cadence & Slang, no Draft, nothing. None of it. He is why I do what I do. He built his own building from the ground up,...
Good atoms are as few atoms as possible
May 14, 2024
Add an atom to the pack and you’re increasing its weight. This is obvious and the essential tension. You want to add all of the atoms, give it all of the...
How to buy a water bottle
May 10, 2024
It seems like you’re thirsty. I get it! You’re active, doing lots of cool stuff, and you’re a human. Humans need to drink a lot water every day – more than...
Public service announcement (phone down day)
May 8, 2024
Due to apocalypse, we exist in a moment of capacity collapse, where we have consciously chosen for it to be “hard” to hang out for more than 90 calendar...
You think a clover infestation is trivial, but that’s where you’d be wrong
May 6, 2024
You have a problem. The ceiling is leaking. Clover has taken over your garden. Part of your roof collapsed. You seek help. This is easy, you think. There is...
You have a face
May 2, 2024
A video went viral recently, god help us, because a woman went over to a man’s place and could not believe he has a good skincare routine. He must be...
A reminder: hugs are free
April 30, 2024
Upfront PSA: The number of you who corrected me that asparagus is not a cruciferous brassica can only be measured in scientific notation. Sorry about that;...
Pilsner pack (nothing to hide)
April 26, 2024
Beer is an imperfect thing that requires controlling nature in defiance of god in order to make many versions of a thing consistently & well. Faults happen....
Green leafy stick text
April 24, 2024
We have referred, briefly, to asparagus before, but we haven’t really gone deep on it. You know that you should only be eating it when it’s in season in your...
The marker
April 22, 2024
The problem is that the markers are very good. They are probably accurate on a level that would impress Pantone. Really the best antecedent is Pantone: you...
Vetiver text
April 18, 2024
I went to an art fair this past weekend and brought a fragrance nerd, and the entire time she validated what I had always suspected: the high-end art world...
Bags in bags in bags
April 16, 2024
We’re back on our nonsense over here, which is to say that we are traveling. I traveled too much at the beginning of 2023 and spent most of the rest of the...
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April 12, 2024
Some brief links that sum up a lot of what text is about. On fast fashion This piece on Shein doesn’t convey much about the mindset of thoughtful consumption...
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