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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...
Go do stuff you like
July 13, 2023
So you have this glowy rectangle in your pocket, and you can do pretty much anything with it. Anything! Anything. You ask the rectangle for one job: you want...
How to promote a party
July 11, 2023
First, you announce that you are throwing a party, and then two months later you throw a party. That’s the skeleton. Now you have to fill in the skeleton....
Every instance of repair I have done on clothes in the past two years, in no order
July 7, 2023
The suit
A knolled clown car for your brain
July 5, 2023
The whole goal of good carry is to fit as much as possible in as small of space while taking up as little bulk and weight as possible. There are many...
Smoke journey
June 29, 2023
Some tea you can steep a few times before it becomes something you don’t want to put in your face. Some you can’t. Don’t steep malty assam multiple times....
No bean rules
June 27, 2023
Sometimes you remember that you have an amazing ingredient that you have not used in a while, and you avail it upon yourself to attempt something with it....
Taming nature
June 19, 2023
> The same discipline, if not creativity, has helped make Budweiser the most popular beer in the world. Its sheer consistency, across tens of billions of...
Late spring, three ways
June 15, 2023
There is so much I could talk about right now. Draft just reached its earliest ever break-even point on the year. I feel like I’m back at full strength in my...
Laying siege to Dongletown
June 13, 2023
When I first bought a bad laptop in 2014, it had some USB-C ports and nothing else, and so I had to buy some dongles. I eventually spent $500 on dongles. I...
Basil’s rule of innovation
June 7, 2023
New developments appear to have occurred in technology. Most people have viewed them with grim skepticism, saying that the new thing is gross, weird,...
What is wonder now?
June 5, 2023
I’m writing this a couple of days before Apple’s big conference, and it should go out shortly after. This is deliberate. I want to be proven wrong here. I...
What should you ignore in an airport?
June 2, 2023
Almost everything. Airports are malls for the liminal damned. There are exceptions, which is why this text is longer than two sentences. Food 95% of airport...
Randy text
May 31, 2023
If you had to pick a favorite baseball play of the past 5 years, you could go the “storied dinger” route with the most important swing of the entire...
Two contexts
May 29, 2023
Two years ago, I went on a bit of a failure of a first date. She was really cool, had a fascinating job, was lovely to talk to. But she was freshly out of a...
Sound Princess
May 25, 2023
To know Japan is to crap there. You are aware of smart toilets, yes, but you are perhaps not aware of their omnipresence there. Japan tracks sales of smart...
Matched pair
May 19, 2023
I ran an errand last week and flew to Los Angeles to get a tattoo that is actually two tattoos. No, they don’t have any meaning, just vibes. Found the guy’s...
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