The Deleted Scenes - New and Old #118
Too Many Americans Are Missing Out on the Best Kitchen Gadget, The Atlantic, Matteo Wong, April 21, 2023
My wife has a very similar Zojirushi rice cooker, one of the first things she bought on her own in grad school, and it works like the day it was purchased. (It’s crazy to think that at one time, Japanese stuff was considered junk.) This rings true:
And the history is fascinating:
This is fascinating and gives me some food for thought: the idea that the technology is merely getting better at emulating something that long preceded it:
It’s great; read the whole thing. The best diners in New Jersey according to this couple trying them all, New York Post, Jeanette Settembre, March 6, 2023 I don’t read the New York Post much, but this is a lovely piece devoid of tabloidy politics or sensationalism. I don’t know any of the diners mentioned, as the friend who sent me the piece asked, but I might as well. There probably isn’t a “best” diner, and if you don’t go for diner fare the best and worst will all look about the same. And they kind of are. But it’s such a great and quintessentially New Jersey project:
The only problem is, the couple doesn’t like Taylor ham. Look it up. On Niagara Falls, Scope of Work, Hillary Predko, July 3, 2023
My wife and I were just in Canada in May, and we stayed a couple of nights in Niagara Falls. There’s a little bit of info in the official tours about hydro power, but it’s very much in the backseat. The town, as Predko notes, is full of tacky and overpriced tourist stuff. But:
Part of the piece is paywalled, but check out the preview. Iceland, Without a Phone, Brickstackr, Hannah Thoreson, May 31, 2023 Hannah has liked and shared my writing before, so I’ll share hers. She’s a tech worker, so this meditation on the smartphone is interesting. “The last time I had been without a phone for any serious length of time was in 2014 after I wrecked my SUV on another similar adventure,” she writes. It’s striking, isn’t it, how hard it is to put these things down, let alone exist for any length of time untethered to them? Other than feeling extra-keenly that she had packed the wrong clothes, not just functionally but aesthetically, being phoneless meant this:
It seems pretty obvious that smartphones produce a sort of mental fog, or at least some alteration in our resting mental state. And it also seems obvious that putting them down or turning them off is very difficult for many if not most people. Any other object—or, not to put too fine a point on it, substance—that did that? You know what we’d call it. Related Reading: Thank you for reading! Please consider upgrading to a paid subscription to help support this newsletter. You’ll get a weekly subscribers-only post, plus full access to the archive: over 700 posts and growing. And you’ll help ensure more material like this! You're currently a free subscriber to The Deleted Scenes. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
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Don't Shoot the Message
Sunday, July 16, 2023
An insight on political psychology
Not-So-Gentle Giant
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Automation and overreaction to crime degrade the customer experience
An Urban People
Monday, July 10, 2023
Montreal shows what a North American city can be
Solitude
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Thoughts on a visit to a firefly sanctuary
New and Old #117
Friday, July 7, 2023
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