Simon Sarris

Nov 30, 2024 | simonsarris.com | Simon Sarris

These are a kind of liege waffle, except with more milk, a pleasing amount of butter, and significantly more eggs. This makes them into a miniature meal. The high sugar content means no syrup is necessary, they are perfectly self-contained, so they make a nice snack for working outside or hiking. The exterior is crisp, and is achieved mostly by caramelizing sugar added at the last moment, and the interior is tender and slightly bready, like a brioche dough.

Oct 27, 2024 | map.simonsarris.com | Simon Sarris

This is post may sound familiar: it is based on a 2021 post titled The Most Precious Resource is Agency. A rewrite with recommendations for children and parents was published in Palladium Magazine under this title. I am preserving it here too. When I read biographies, early lives leap out the most. Leonardo da Vinci was a studio apprentice to Verrocchio at 14 years old. Walt Disney took on a number of jobs, chiefly delivering papers, by 11.

Sep 11, 2024 | threadreaderapp.com | Simon Sarris

This has been a mindset that's been made fun of and commented on since at least the 1800s (The Bostonians, Henry James), its definitely not new. It is an addiction to feeling like you are saving something and protecting it from others.

Nov 10, 2023 | map.simonsarris.com | Simon Sarris

Speak low if you speak love. — Shakespeare, Much Ado about NothingI’m very fond of audiobooks. There is something endearing, maybe even romantic, about the act of listening. I get this same sense often in early photographs of radio listeners, that they appreciate the romance of the medium. Today our options are so much more, we possess a pocket oration of the world’s greatest texts if we want them. And that is so compelling that I’m always a little shocked when people malign audiobooks.

Jul 28, 2023 | map.simonsarris.com | Simon Sarris

Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and pleasure. Despite more colorful and interactive media, reading text somehow remains more refined, more seductive. There is a visceral feeling to good reading. Partly this is because reading is nearly solitary. At the beginning you are alone with just the characters. By the end, you are alone with just the author. To hear him well demands no other distractions.