* On foot
* 41.890238, 12.480799
* Tuesday 30 January, 2024
* 422.75 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Amazing that this quest was in the middle of the road right by one of our most-used bus stops.
🦇 Animal #184 🦖
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9
https://
2024-01-30
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240130-W-AY68O8
1 min read
I've just set up a couple of Alfred custom web searches, prompted by Wouter Groeneveld's post How To Search The Internet at https://
Such an amazing chain of events with such interesting consequences. Alas, neither of my parents were the diarying kind, but I definitely appreciate my own as an aide-memoire. Seeing what I did on this day is always fun.
🐂 Animal #182 🐔
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 11 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://
Interesting to read Devastatia's IndieWeb Carnival entry, which opens with an account of The Breakfast Club, the day after we saw The Holdovers. We were talking about great high school movies of the past, and of course TBC was among them (also If, The History Boys etc). As a Boomer, I wonder how those and The Holdovers (set in 1971) come across to recent generations.
🦧 Animal #181 🦢
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 10 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://
Got off to a bad start.
🐛 Animal #180 🐱
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://
2024-01-26
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240126-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.894903, 12.463351
* Friday 26January, 2024
* 422.6 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Longer write-up on the mothership.
🦋 Animal #179 🐩
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 8 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://
Unable to login to Monocle
1 min read
Monocle would not allow me to login using this site, saying there was no microsub endpoint. This was because in upgrading Known, I had forgotten that I had added the link to microsub before. I had also forgotten which of the hundreds of template files I had to edit in order to do that. In the end I found it with a brute-force search for all files ending in `.tpl.php` The file in question lives at `./IdnoPlugins/IndiePub/templates/default/indiepub/shell/head.tpl.php`.
Having found the correct file to edit, the rest was straightforward thanks to [excellent instructions.
🐇 Animal #178 🦂
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 7 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://
Repetition!
2024-01-25
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240125-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On bicycle
* 41.871087, 12.44482
* Thursday 25 January, 2024
* 422.58 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Had to go out for fresh coffee, so why not?
Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie
It has been a nerdy late afternoon, spelunking into quite a few rabbit holes that I would never normally have discovered. Like this post about correcting the fluttering audio on the soundtrack of Steamboat Willie, thanks to ooh.directory. I even understood some of it.
Robert has a good solution to blocking text-to-speech narration in audiobooks, not a problem for me as I don't listen. But ... the 2023 roundup of Tyler Cowan's podcast said they were recording his voice for a custom text-to-speech. Might be worthwhile.
🦤 Animal #177 🐿️
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2
https://
🐈 Animal #176 🦓
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4
https://
Bad common name, again.
2024-01-22
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240122-W-AYB80D
1 min read
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240122-W-AYB80D
* On foot
* 41.930987, 12.469606
* Monday 22 January, 2024
* 422.53 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://
A little detour before catching a bus home.
🐾 Animal #175 🦩
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://
2024-01-21
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240121-W-AY680D
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.877312, 12.450351
* Sunday 21 January, 2024
* 422.51 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://
🐝 Animal #174 🦭
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4
https://
Even after a hint, which I didn’t actually need, the paucity of potential candidate was unhelpful.
Very excited to have a new season of #sceneonradio appear in my #podcast feed, looking into the coup d’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.
🦘 Animal #173 🐁
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://
Wow! That was a quick refresher course.
2024-01-19
rabbit_quest geohashing 20240119-W-AY680D
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.884197, 12.466269
* Friday 19 January, 2024
* 422.49 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Close to home, and still off my usual beaten track.
🐠 Animal #172 🐗
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://
2024-01-18
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240118-W-AY680D
1 min read
* 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.
🐂 Animal #170 🐈
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
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🔥 14 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://
Had to ask for a hint.
🦒 Animal #169 🕊️
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 13 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://
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://
🐞 Animal #168 🐮
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 12 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2
https://
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
🐁 Animal #167 🦌
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 11 | Avg. Guesses: 7.5
https://
🐢 Animal #166 🦬
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
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🔥 10 | Avg. Guesses: 7.7
https://
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.
🐅 Animal #165 🐬
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 7.6
https://
🐠 Animal #164 🦜
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 8 | Avg. Guesses: 7.9
https://
Language Log: The plagiarism circus
Very interesting post showing just how blunt an instrument iThenticate is for uncovering actual plagiarism.
[N]ot one single match that iThenticate had found amounted to illegitimate copying. In the end, my dissertation’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?
🐓 Animal #163 🦕
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
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🔥 7 | Avg. Guesses: 8
https://
🐟 Animal #162 🐊
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://
Total guesswork.
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.
🦏 Animal #161 🦬
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 8.2
https://
🕊️ Animal #160 🐈
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.6
https://
Had to ask for a clue.