the right tool for the right job

from the mind and hand of amanda nazarian. original on view at the hi-rise on wendell street.

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The type—almost the only type in existence from the original Caslon foundry—survived almost unused at Oxford because the opportunities fo...

we have a skylight

the child learns quickly how to convert the measurable chemical and physical stimuli reaching it from the exterior into an esthetic estimat...

home for three weeks in january for a wedding in the family , i discovered the beginnings of a coffee culture in singapore, one that gets th...

the people of cambridge prefer their meat from the butcher's case. lucky for the two turkeys that roam our part of town. they favour the...

yesterday, there was a run on black-eyed peas, which are a traditional food for some people on new year's day. a few specimens rattled a...

Q: what are pie-weights? A: they woam the seas in search of pwunder.

I couldn't tell them much other that it is as important to be lucky as it is to be good. And it is also important to love what you do. ...

you, or at least i, would imagine that a library would stay open regular hours instead of closing at noon the day before it shuts down for a...

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemi...

:-| you saw it here first.

a discussion in the car during a long drive back from new hampshire brought this back to top of mind, where it should really always be. On...

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backward. yvon chouinard [thx josh ] [The Tarahumara] know that every step forward, every co...

From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the forms of things. By the time I was fifty I had published an infinity of designs, but all ...

instructions on how to buy an inexpensive but decently built and swiftly unlockable smartphone and switch to a low-cost pay-as-you-go cellp...

this time of year, there is nothing more wonderful to eat than late-ripening, fresh-picked, crisp, crunchy apples. the early apples are stil...

it's great when your ethics and your hedonism converge. david shields (in " true grits ," by burkhard bilger )

and hydration is our highest priority .

barismo el bosque, melitta/193F; royal copenhagen blue fluted remix.