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Gail Simmons revealed that Top Chef season 24 won't film at the end of this summer, as usual, and also cleared up three mysteries about Top Chef Carolinas' scheduling.
If I could give someone younger than me one piece of advice, it would be… well, first of all, they’re not going to listen. I know this because I didn’t listen. I don’t remember taking a single piece of advice from an older person when I...
You can treat more compelling wants as a reward for having fulfilled less compelling needs. Inspired creativity keeping you up past your bedtime? Reward yourself with resuming your pastime at some point after a good night's sleep. Social...
Lumi was off school early today because of the excessive heat. It is a pity that there doesn't seem to be a direct translation for the German "Hitzefrei" (which basically means "free because of heat"). I think she used her time very wisely.
Julius Caesar stood on the bank of a shallow river called the Rubicon. It was 49 BC, and he was out of options. The Senate, marshalled by his rival Pompey, had ordered him to surrender his command in Gaul and return to Rome as a private...
Raymond Chen writes about a man whose work affected us all: I recently learned of the passing of someone whose work nearly everybody knows, but nobody knows his name. Tony Krueger is remembered in Wikipedia as the person who ported the...
I always meant to have some major epic planned for today’s post, but alas. What I have instead are some shorter, compartmentalised thoughts on the whole debacle. Why Brexit? There’s a fair bit I could talk about: The evolution of the...
Humans suffer two big but under-discussed biases, which together make us overly favor people we see as prestigious and sincere. First, humanity’s superpower is cultural evolution, wherein we copy each others’ behaviors, and this wouldn’t...
Punk songs tend to be very, very short and fast. But, one day, the NOFX guys said "fuck that" and decided to make something a bit longer, and here we are, with an 18-minute punk song written in '99. To be honest, it feels more like...
Spaceports always have bars where you can blow off steam after a passage and meet potential patrons. They usually suck. In cases where it's helpful to flesh out a spaceport bar with an evocative detail, throw two dice and consult the...
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You fly into New Orleans, pick up your rental car and drive to the hotel down near Bourbon Street, check in and crash from a long travel day! Then before your head hits the pillow you call and leave a wake up call! Wait……. that’s not the...
I was thinking of writing another blog post. I was thinking about changing careers. I was thinking about starting a family. I was thinking about buying a new car. I was thinking... It can be so comfortable to think about things, about...
Read the full post at - The Wealth Ladder by Nick Magiulli The Wealth Ladder is a book I picked up from the library on the strength of one thing: I’ve followed Nick Maggiulli for years. He writes at Of Dollars and Data, and he’s one of...
Spreading joy and reinventing yourself while turning a house into a home (Woodstock, Illinois; 2004 to present day): Joy is the reading mood I’m searching for these days. Maida Korte walks the talk, “showcasing joy” by writing lovingly...