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Jeremy Cherfas

2025-01-14

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20250114-W-AY68O8

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, looking up over a wall topped with greenery (plumbago, maybe) at three balconies on the side of a brick apartemnt building. One of the balconies has a few plants on it.

* On foot
* 41.879539, 12.449281
* 14 January 2025
* 426.1 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

One of the things I really like about Rabbit Quest: gives me a target to walk to that is out of my customary loop. This is on the other side of the park, which I do not visit often.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-12-26

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A tin of Swedish ansjovis with the lid half open showing the silvery fish within. The background is an unopened tin, prink with yellow lettering and two red fish on it.

Not to be overshadowed by Rita Hayworth and Gilda, the latest Eat This Podcast also looks into The Swedish Conundrum.

What are Swedes getting when they open a tin of “ansjovis”? Not anchovies. Or at least, not Engraulis encrasicolus.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/gilda/

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-12-24

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, the Colosseum, an ancient Roman brick and stone structure with three tiers of arches and a top tier with rectangular window openings.

* On bus
* 41.889492, 12.491804
* 26 December 2024
* 425.45 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap

My first drive-by rabbit. And I only noticed it once I was on the bus and looking distractedly at my phone. Probably doesn't count in the greater scheme of things, but what the heck.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-12-19

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, a mocha-brown house with white trim around the windows and other decoraticve elements. There is a motor scooter parked on the pavement outside the house and evergreen trees to either side of the building.

* On foot
* 41.876189, 12.460472
* 19 December 2024
* 425.37 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap 

I wanted to bag this rabbit because the house in the photo was derelict for years and falling apart because, we were told, the siblings who inherited it couldn't agree what to do with it. No idea how that was resolved, but it looks great now.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-11-26

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, a pale cream coloured wall with some palm fronds intruding from left and right and ferms and a colocasia on the bottom. There is a yelloqw hosepipe coiled up on the wall.

 

* On foot
* 41.882431, 12.455121
* 26 November 2024
* 424.57 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

Just across the road from my barber, whom I had planned to visit in any case.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-11-20

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Links are powerful — that's why Instagram and Twitter and Threads punish and limit them, and why Substack tries to take credit for them. And that's why "wherever you get your podcasts" is such a radical concept — like email, it's a medium that the tech tycoons don't, and can't, own. People can read your writing "wherever they get their email".

Anil Dash lays out the future of S*bst*ck https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-11-19

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Needless to say, it was hard to glean any of these alleged meanings from the works themselves. Rather, they could be discovered only from the descriptions on the wall, which read like the everything-is-connected code-breaking ravings of an overeducated cabal convinced that a hidden semiotic language of resistance lies below everyday objects, camera angles, orientations, and gestures made so very many times before.

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/12/the-painted-protest-dean-kissick-contemporary-art/

Much to agree with, much more to be bemused by.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-11-10

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20241110-W-AY680D

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, a vintage black Raleigh road bike leaning against a heavily graffitied wall with a men at work sign in front of it.

* On bicycle
* 41.884605, 12.475028
* 10 November 2024
* 423.74 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

I went out for a long bicycle ride this morning, having vaguely noted that there was a Rabbit to be bagged not too far from the route. On the way back I dismounted, got as close as I could and took the picture. It was a great ride.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-10-04

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right a mass of tangled vegetation at the edge of some woods.

* On foot
* 41.886121, 12.444012
* 4 October 2024
* 420.9 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

After recent storms there were a few trees blocking my way, and I couldn't get that close anyway.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-09-24

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Composite image. Map of rabbit quest location on the left. Photo on the right. Looking out to sea from a flat, sandy beach with white waves coming in and a blue sky above with some pale clouds.

* On foot
* 55.169166, -6.777712
* Tuesday 24 September 2024
* 420.25 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.169166&mlon=-6.777712#map=14/55.16843/-6.78612) 

I’ve been looking for baggable rabbits, but this graticulette is mostly sea, and even this one was out of reach except at low tide, which wasn’t for about another 6 hours.