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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...
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...
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