24MAR2024

Happy Sunday to all and sundry! We're two weeks out from the great North American Total Eclipse-- Do you have your glasses and plans sorted out yet? Take it from someone who waited until the last minute for the last eclipse, you don't want to be the guy or gal driving around to every grocery story in a 20 mile radius looking for glasses. That said, if you still don't want to take my advice and do find yourself scrambling at the last minute, I recommend checking toy shops, hobby shops, and arts & craft shops. I wound up securing a 10 pack literally an hour before the last eclipse at Hobbytown USA.

On to the good stuff!

• 💎 Chef's Choice 15XV - Having consistently sharp knives is such a great little power up for your cooking and camping / EDC gear. I’ve been really pleased with this remarkably easy powered knife sharpener. I’m sure sending my knives off to professional sharpeners would get marginally better results, but in less than five minutes I can go from dull to razor sharp with just a few passes through the three stages of this sharpener. I love that it can handle my "chef's knives" and my pocket knives just as easily.
• 🔪 Milk Street Nakiri - Speaking of knives, I’ve really enjoyed this “do everything” kitchen knife from Milk Street, the storefront from Christopher Kimball of America’s Test Kitchen fame. Apart from just being a beautiful blade, it handles really nicely for all manner of slicing, chopping and dicing, and is shaped in a way that is much safer to handle while also providing a broad flat blade surface for scooping up all the veggies that you’ve been cutting up.
• 📺 The Acolyte - Disney dropped the trailer for their newest Star Wars show, The Acolyte, this week. It definitely looks to be a darker tale than we’re used to from them. I’ll be eager to give it a shot when it drops in June.
• 💻 Brewintosh - The 3D Printed Macintosh Plus - This is a fun one! Someone 3D printed an original Macintosh Plus and got it up and running, accepting floppies, etc. I love seeing creative passion projects like this.
• 🎥 Denis Villeneuve Walks You Through the Worm Scene - I would skip this one if you've not seen Dune 2 yet, but this awesome 23 minute video has the incredibly talented director explaining how they made the amazing first worm riding scene in the movie. Bonus link for my fellow Dune fans, here's a live performance of Hans Zimmer and friends playing the iconic music from Dune live... I gotta be honest, I did not imagine I'd ever see Hans Zimmer shredding a guitar, but here we are.

That's it for this week, be well everyone!