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Jeremy Cherfas

2024-12-19

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20241219-W-AY68OD

1 min read

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

New newsletter: One bottled water company now owns Alhambra®, Arrowhead®, Crystal Springs®, Deer Park®, Ice Mountain®, Mountain Valley®, Ozarka®, Poland Spring®, Primo Water®, Pure Life®, Saratoga®, Sparkletts®, Zephyrhills® and others.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-258-gifted/

Jeremy Cherfas

Back when I started podcasting, in 2013, it seemed sensible to include a page telling people that they could subscribe, and how. Is that still needed today? Does “wherever you get your podcasts” really cover it, or should I add links for all the apps and services?

Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: The Amateur: The pleasures of doing what you love by Andy Merrifield, ISBN: 9781786631060



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Jeremy Cherfas

This is madness. I have 653 different tags on my ~4000 bookmarks in linkding. Fully 267 of them have a single entry. Clearly I urgently need to procrastinate by cleaning everything up.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-11-26

rabbit_quest #geohashing 20241126-W-AY680D

1 min read

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

Bennett's Law says that as poor people have more money they shift from coarse grains to fine and then to animal proteins. But it isn't really a law, more a regular occurrence. Today, the first empirical test of Bennett’s Law, with researcher Marc Bellemare.

https://eatthispodcast.com/bennetts-law

Jeremy Cherfas

Trawling around after briefly noting Cooklang as a way of marking up recipes, I came across a recipe for gnocchi sauce that called for 300ml of cream as well as a burrata cheese and thought to myself, talk about gilding the lily.

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-11-20

1 min read

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

1 min read

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.