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Legacy
I’ve never grown older before, so forgive me if you have and I’m just being obvious. The older I get the more I think about the balance between the entropic impermanence of all things and the human urge to continue creating and planning and hoping in the face of that impermanence. I think it is
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How to be a Photographer.
Three dSLRs Four GoPro action cams. Two tripods. One flash. Nine lenses. A fistful of memory cards. Drawers packed with gadgets, clips, hooks, meters, caps, filters, batteries, microfibre cloths, and a random assortment of other camera accessories. And in 2021 I took a lot of photos like this… on my iPhone. What do you wish
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Simple Pan Basics
I continue to look for interestingly complex recipes to cook and share on this blog (though I’ll admit this is neither a major theme nor the sole purpose of this site to share recipes) and occasionally I’ll post one. But then other times I like to retreat to something more simple and remind my readers
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Perfecting Pour Overs
Opportunity? Or maybe a concerning symptom? I’ve all-too-often tapped into the nearly unlimited informtion pouring from the internet and found myself wandering into deep, dark caverns of complexity on a narrow and specific topic. The last couple months that topic has been coffee. Back in September I hinted that I had been dabbling in pour
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Strip this Pan, Part Four
In short, and to conclude this short series of posts, the effort to strip and re-season the twenty-inch reversible grill was a modest success. In the end, it was a combination of elbow grease and chemical oven cleaner that seemed to net me the best result of the multiple methods I tried. I found that