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Solve the thing once
July 8, 2024
Get into carry for long enough and you end up down a very pointy rabbit hole. Knife carry is wild, y’all. Knives have been optimized with an inch of their...
Akahoshi, five times
July 2, 2024
It begins, for our intents, with the book and its corresponding Reddit thread. There is a guy, and he decided to beastmode ramen to such a degree that, well,...
New position
June 28, 2024
On Tuesday, we’ll be launching our first open consulting slot for the first time in two years. I am mildly terrified about it! I am more-than-mildly dreading...
The picnic pro, again
June 26, 2024
After eight days of 104º weather, it finally drops to 78º and you are, like a normal person, invited to 41 picnics at once. Also like a normal person, you...
Get the better one
June 24, 2024
Look, I know they look the same. I’m trained to find the differences. One has two ribbons; the other has only one. One comes with more sheets. The paper...
Monte Carlo (for Justin)
June 20, 2024
We haven’t talked about cocktails much lately, which is for a reason, but there is now something to discuss in the middle of the blazing summer, peak...
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June 18, 2024
Lettuce is at peak right now. We must discuss it. If you don’t have lettuce in your crisper in June, you’re missing out on one of the most important...
Q2, three years
June 14, 2024
It arrived the day before my second shot, the shot that let you out in the world, sort of. It felt less like a midlife crisis than a rebirth, although let’s...
Space iPad, 1 month
June 12, 2024
The thing is dressed up as a laptop for a permanent halloween of the computing spirit. There is a trackpad, clicky keys. The keyboard even lights up. There...
Scattered gathering rules
June 10, 2024
A few scattered rules for gathering that nobody seems to tell you about. Groups favor circles Layout-wise, people like to sit in a circle. Trying to hem...
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...
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