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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

rabbit_quest 20241004-W-AY6808

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  20241004-W-AY6808

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

rabbit_quest 20240924-W-BZ422G

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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.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-08-22

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240816-W-AY68OD

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right a black Raleigh steel road bike leaned up against a white micro-rental car. The actual Rabbit is somewhere between the biccle and an apartment block in the background.

* On bicycle
* 41.861454, 12.464238
* Thursday 22 August, 2024
* 418.77 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

Not exactly exploring. Just happened to notice this Rabbit right by my usual route for a long bicycle ride, so I had to bag it on the way home.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-08-19

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240816-W-AYB8OD

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Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right a view down a leaf-covered slope to a road. lined with plane trees and umbrella pines. Two groups of people are walking beside the road. In the foreground are shrubs, including small Ailanthus bushes.

* On foot
* 41.88934, 12.46280 approx
* Friday 16 August, 2024
* N/A ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

Bagged this on Friday, and it had been so long since the previous Rabbit I clear forgot to take the screenshot that enables me to post a day later. Or three days later.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-08-16

Audio cleanup

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Editing audio, you accumulate so much cruft it is amazing. Out-takes, duplicates, alternative mixes etc etc. You pretend you might come back to them. But you don't. Eventually you decide to save only the final mix and the sound files it needs, and you spend about 90 minutes doing every podcast from 2014, and you reduce the size of that archive from 21.3GB to 9.1GB and that is a good thing.

2015 can wait.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-07-16

I’m not clever enough

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From An alarmingly concise and very hinged summary of what it was like to build this site from scratch

“Yes, nearly everything about the platform felt worse than it did when I first started using it over a decade ago. ... Someone with even a modicum of clout should really coin a catchy term that everyone else can repeat ad infinitum until it loses all meaning. I’m not clever enough.”

Like, er, enshittification? Or was this an example of self-deprecating humour designed to flush out a reply guy?

I’m not clever enough to decide.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-05-29

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240529-W-BU4212

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Composite image with details of the rabbit quest on the left and a view of the entrance to Croke Park stadium in Dublin on the right

20240529-W-BU4212

* On foot
* 53.360765, -6.253028
* Thursday 18 April, 2024
* 424.03 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap 

My first ever rabbit quest that involved an actual landmark.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-05-13

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Latest episode, I talk to Eleanor Barnett's about her book Leftovers, which made me think that wasting food is the default human behaviour. Only shortage can stop us doing it. Her solution is to advocate for a new appreciation of the value of food. Is there time?

https://eatthispodcast.com/leftovers

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-04-20

Belated #rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240418-W-AY68O8

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Composite view, with the rabbit quest on the left and a photo on the right; the photo shows a tangle of undergrowth in front of the viewer, the quest target about 10 metres away.

* On foot
* 41.882223, 12.448771
* Thursday 18 April, 2024
* 424.12 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap

In the park, and well off my normal paths.