Hey stylish friends; I need new glasses. What’s your favorite place (online or locally in Chicago, if the latter resides in your experience) to shop for frames (and/or lenses)? I’m squinting particularly in your direction, Max Bickley, inimitable gentleman of style.

In the stadium explosion in The Dark Knight Rises, the shrapnel is popcorn.

A+++

A+ fluid solve from the guy who taught me how to do it years ago, Chris Horvath. Bonus: turkey scattering coefficients.

This is awesome.

Descension, a sculpture by Anish Kapoor.

Advance copy of the *checks notes* 5th printing of the Aviary book - copy #75,001. We check to verify the print run went as expected. Sarah and I change the bookmark and head/tail band color each time we print, mostly to amuse ourselves but also to better keep track of them.

Hi friends! Sarah and I would like to update our plateware (which predominantly sports that post-college just-graduated vibe). Current North Star is Heath, but curious what other beautiful options others might have discovered? Do you have plates/bowls/servingware you love?

What’s inside Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt cable? We CT scanned one to find out, and compared it to some cheaper cables… 🧵