Had amazing Sichuan food at Hupo in Long Island City. So good, I’m jealous of my past self.
Welcome to the Webmention-a-verse but she's a girl...!
It’s a snow day in Astoria ❄️
I added a faint grain to the background of my site, but I keep thinking it's too subtle and just looks like your monitor is dirty.
These Stickers to Manage Replies by Don Hon seem useful. How cool would it be if they were built in to social media sites?
Yesterday I Learned that the Chinese zodiac has subtypes based on the elements. So, 2024 is the year the Wood Dragon, and I was born under the Fire Tiger. 🪵🐲
My brilliant co-owner Greg Dunlap has a Kickstarter up for his new book, Designing Content Authoring Experiences. If you work with Content Management Systems, you owe yourself a look.
Once, after a ring-bearer dog defecated in the aisle, she scooped up the dog poop with her bare hands to prevent the bride from soiling her dress.
Merely one of the bonkers stories of the world's most successful professional bridesmaid. Ignore the vague waft of click-bait, this is a detailed, fully reported piece.
Great piece on privacy and money, and why it matters to society.
Privacy suffers from a collective action dilemma: individually it isn’t worth much and so we don’t defend it, but lack of privacy is immensely costly when lost en masse. Moreover, our data, en masse, is worth a lot to corporations and governments. Thus privacy has few defenders and strong attackers.
Got to perform in a wonderful, supportive speed-dating improv show last night. These shows are always so fun and the audience has such a great time, not to mention us the performers. Check loose corn on Instragram for upcoming shows.
Has there ever been a bigger drop in quality in album art than between the first two Danzig albums?
The first record? One of the most iconic images in hard rock.
The second record? Prank.
I added a search page to my blog. Let me know if you find anything interesting.
Eat at Haidilao Hot Pot in Flushing yesterday. Meal lasted ~3 hours. So damn good. I only have one photo of the food from before anything was cooked as after I was too busy stuffing my face.
Artists compete with each other for status so fiercely that they often run out of ways to look more upper-class. So, a favorite maneuver is to adopt patterns from the lower class. But while they might wear clothes designed for factory workers, they wouldn’t wear polo shirts or khaki pants because those are coded as middle class—too much danger that their competitors might not understand their advanced maneuver.
A fascinating long-form on how taste is informed by status seeking from Dynomight Internet Newsletter.