My new desk at Simpleform

This week Simpleform moved into a new office on 2nd St between Mission and Howard. It’s probably one of the coolest offices I’ve worked in, with exposed brick walls, original wood floors, and glass partitions that let in light but…

Earthquake welcoming committee

It’s been ten days since Stephanie and I moved into our new home. Compared to past moves this one went so smoothly that I wasn’t quite sure what to say about it. So I’ll just tell what happened. On the…

Rethinking the Refrigerator

In the half-year since we’ve been back in San Francisco and resumed a life many would call “normal”, I’ve noticed that our refrigerator habits appear anything but. I’m starting to think that’s because we spent a year without one—and have…

All the things she did for luck

While Stephanie and I were in Thailand last year preparing to go to India, my sister Katie was preparing to quit her job and travel across Europe for 3 months by herself. Though it would have been very cool if…

The best cabbage soup is chicken soup

On Sunday afternoon I reluctantly made a stock after a luncheon that left us with the remains of two chicken carcasses. We were running low on vegetables, so all I had to contribute was the stems and leaves from some…

Tent + Treehouse = Tentsile #

What a concept:

Even though Holga D is a digital camera, in order to achieve its simplicity, it reduces the feature set to absolute minimum. Even the display is not there! So your photographs remain mysterious until you download the images. This makes the experience quite similar to the good old film based cameras.

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Pretty: Onion Ring Sunny-side Up Eggs #

My jaw-dropped watching this: Over-elaborated rubegoldbergian steampunk corkscrew #

Simpleform = Simpleform + 1 #

Great video: Vice Munchies with Danny Bowien (of Mission Chinese fame) #

I’m admittedly a passive investor, with 100% of my retirement savings invested in index funds, but this article in Slate, ostensibly about Facebook’s impending IPO, was the first I’ve read that expressed a downside to emerge from index fund investing: ineffective corporate governance.

On some level, this is how investing already works today. Actively managed mutual funds are a bad deal for investors, as are hedge funds and private equity funds. But if you invest in broad indexes as most people think you should, then by definition you’re abandoning any ability to exercise control over the companies you nominally “own.”

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The square we live in: There are at least 18 Reasons to love Mission food (there’s enough restaurants here to keep us busy for a long, long time) #

OMFG: The Free Universal Construction Kit (3D printers make me want to be a kid again) (via Kottke) #

This is probably not what GoPro intended by the “World’s Most Versatile Camera”:

When the police tried to break down his door, [Mohamed] Merah, who had an Uzi, Kalashnikov and other weapons, fired. Then he decided he wanted to talk. From 7am until late on Wednesday night, he had several walkie-talkie conversations with a police negotiator. He also gave them a location for a bag containing a blood-spattered GoPro camera device which he had worn round his neck to film his attacks.

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Very cool: Andre was quoted in Austin Kleon’s new book, How to Steal Like an Artist, which is based on one of my favorite blog posts of all time #

I have a bone to pick with you, Josh Miller:

Why Branch Is Moving Back To New York City: San Francisco is just too nice. The nature is too accessible, the architecture is too Victorian, and the weather is too perfect. The quality of life here is unrivaled.

The weather in San Francisco ain’t perfect. #

Shopping has felt awfully like this lately: Reviews #