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Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿฆค Animal #177 ๐Ÿฟ๏ธ
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿˆ Animal #176 ๐Ÿฆ“
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 5 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4

https://metazooa.com

Bad common name, again.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-01-22

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240122-W-AYB80D

1 min read

rabbit_quest 20240122-W-AYB80D

Composite image with my location on the left and the rabbit quest on the right; a parking lot between two modern, glassed buildings overhung by conifer branches

* On foot
* 41.930987, 12.469606
* Monday 22 January, 2024
* 422.53 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.930987&mlon=12.469606#map=14/41.930987/12.469606)

A little detour before catching a bus home.

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Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿพ Animal #175 ๐Ÿฆฉ
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-01-21

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240121-W-AY680D

1 min read

Composite image with my location on the left and the rabbit quest on the right; a Bistrot called Lo Spuntino

* On foot
* 41.877312, 12.450351
* Sunday 21 January, 2024
* 422.51 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.877312&mlon=12.450351#map=14/41.877312/12.450351)

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿ Animal #174 ๐Ÿฆญ
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4

https://metazooa.com

Even after a hint, which I didnโ€™t actually need, the paucity of potential candidate was unhelpful.

Jeremy Cherfas

Very excited to have a new season of appear in my feed, looking into the coup dโ€™etat in Wilmington, North Carolina, of 1898. John Biewen and his collaborators have produced some of the most compelling podcasts on racism and sexism, and judging by episode 1 this will be every bit as good as previous series.

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿฆ˜ Animal #173 ๐Ÿ
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3

https://metazooa.com

Wow! That was a quick refresher course.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-01-19

rabbit_quest geohashing 20240119-W-AY680D

1 min read

Composite image with my location on the left and the rabbit quest on the right.

* On foot
* 41.884197, 12.466269
* Friday 19 January, 2024
* 422.49 ppm CO2
*ย OpenStreetMap

Close to home, and still off my usual beaten track.

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿ  Animal #172 ๐Ÿ—
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-01-18

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240118-W-AY680D

1 min read

Composite image with my location on the left and the rabbit quest on the right.

* On bicycle
* 41.85935, 12.483711
* Thursday 18 January 2024
* 422.47 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

I was out on the bicycle running errands, so it was an extra delight to bag a rabbit-quest.

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿ‚ Animal #170 ๐Ÿˆ
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 14 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3

https://metazooa.com

Had to ask for a hint.

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿฆ’ Animal #169 ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 13 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

New Eat This Newsletter with organic genetic manipulation, industrial chicken-like products, the etymology of devil's dung, America's water woes and the magic of cooked.wiki

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/brave-new-year/

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿž Animal #168 ๐Ÿฎ
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 12 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

Checked into Ristorante Scarpone

Home again, home again. ย 

Jeremy Cherfas

Reading about how Terence Eden has integrated solar panels, smart metering and a fair-sized battery makes me very envious. I've never heard of anything like that on offer in Italy and as a renter rather than owner, there is absolutely no incentive for me to find out more. But I would genuinely love to pre-pay for my electricity for 10 years

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿ Animal #167 ๐ŸฆŒ
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 11 | Avg. Guesses: 7.5

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿข Animal #166 ๐Ÿฆฌ
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 10 | Avg. Guesses: 7.7

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Running your own site is painful. Hosting Nazis is worse

Ben Werdmuller has some excellent, coherent thoughts about what writers need to thrive independently and as part of a network. I particularly like the idea of a newsletter-based blogroll, so that if you decide to follow me, you can also sign up to follow people I follow. This could indeed foster increased readership. No idea how hard it would be to build. Mind you, I'm still too scared of losing readers to even offer paid subscriptions.

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿ… Animal #165 ๐Ÿฌ
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 9 | Avg. Guesses: 7.6

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿ  Animal #164 ๐Ÿฆœ
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 8 | Avg. Guesses: 7.9

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

Language Log: The plagiarism circus

Very interesting post showing just how blunt an instrument iThenticate is for uncovering actual plagiarism.ย 

[N]ot one single match that iThenticate had found amounted to illegitimate copying. In the end, my dissertationโ€™s fraud factor had dropped from 74 percent to zero.

Will anyone else do the work to ensure that, for example, copied words are from publications before the target document, or are not part of the bibliography, or are not properly attributed quotations?

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿ“ Animal #163 ๐Ÿฆ•
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 7 | Avg. Guesses: 8

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

๐ŸŸ Animal #162 ๐ŸŠ
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3

https://metazooa.com

Total guesswork.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-01-08

1 min read

Eat This Newsletter 227: We have a winner!

A round-up of the Xmas Quiz. There was one question that stumped everybody, and two others that only one person answered correctly.

The quiz is still available, and if you enter, you will see the correct answers once you have finished.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/winner/

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿฆ Animal #161 ๐Ÿฆฌ
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 5 | Avg. Guesses: 8.2

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ Animal #160 ๐Ÿˆ
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.6

https://metazooa.com

Had to ask for a clue.

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

๐ŸฆŽ Animal #159 ๐Ÿฐ
I figured it out in 15 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 3 | Avg. Guesses: 6.3

https://metazooa.com

Spoiled for choice.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-01-05

2024-01-05

rabbit_quest geohashing 20240105-W-APFL86

* On foot
* 38.716759, -75.079303
* Friday 5 January 2024
* 422.24 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.716759&mlon=-75.079303#map=14/38.7168/-75.0793)

Behind that window.

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿ• Animal #158 ๐Ÿชฒ
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 2 | Avg. Guesses: 3.3

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on gilest.org :

Has anyone ever loved either Sharepoint or Teams? I mean, people who have to suffer them because policy, not the people who set or implement the policy, obviously.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-01-04

2024-01-04

rabbit_quest geohashing 20240104-W-APFL86

* On foot
* 38.709716, -75.074655
* Thursday 4 January 2024
* 422.23 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.709716&mlon=-75.074655#map=14/38.7097/-75.0747)

On the spot! (At least within phone location accuracy.)

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿ˜ Animal #157 ๐Ÿฆ†
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 1 | Avg. Guesses: 4

https://metazooa.com

Total fluke.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-01-03

2024-01-03

rabbit_quest geohashing 20240103-W-APFL86

* On foot
* 38.72420, -75.09154
* Wednesday 3 January 2024
* Unrecorded ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.724209&mlon=-75.09154#map=14/38.7118/-75.0823)

The perils of a busy day. Didn't record some of the details and didn't post yesterday. Maybe a Shortcut would help create a draft post.

Jeremy Cherfas

2023 (Phil Gyford’s website)

Itโ€™s more than paying my costs and โ€“ while it shouldnโ€™t take cash to show gratitude โ€“ it is pleasing that people get enough pleasure and interest from the site to pay a few $/ยฃ/โ‚ฌ.

Ainโ€™t that the truth!

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

rabbit_quest 20240102-W-APFL86

* On foot
* 38.711849, -75.082336
* Tuesday 2 January 2024
* 422.19 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.711849&mlon=-75.082336#map=14/38.7118/-75.0823)

Jeremy Cherfas

Fogknife : My colonoscopy strategies (8 minute read)

It is always good to be reminded that some things that you might dread are not, in fact, dreadful. I wrote about my own first colonoscopy back in 2009 and luckily, unlike Jason, there was no need to refine my technique.The next time, there was less liquid to chug but the routine was essentially the same. Conclusion: just do it.

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿฆˆ Animal #155 ๐Ÿฆ•
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 1 | Avg. Guesses: 9.5

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿฆ˜ Animal #154 ๐Ÿฆ™
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5

https://metazooa.com

Jeremy Cherfas

๐Ÿก Animal #153 ๐Ÿ€
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
๐ŸŸง๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐Ÿ”ฅ 1 | Avg. Guesses: 12

https://metazooa.com

No spoilers, but man, I got a whole lot of wrong guesses along the way

Jeremy Cherfas

Note to self: do not use Google Maps to find the correct bus stop at an airport