TIL: a well-known and well-regarded weekly podcast that puts out 40 episodes a year is made by four people each working a full-time eight-hour day. That's a lot of time.
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
Caveat emptor has never been more necessary.
Eat This Newsletter 237: Shredded
Which is more, 45 gallons or 720 cups? Trick question, obvs; they're equal. Either way, Americans have never drunk as much milk as they did in 1945, and bird flu is just a blip in the decline.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-237-shredded/
Making art of any kind will always attract the curious, and children can be especially helpful until they suddenly lose interest.
Yes: Nighttime in Australia is the right time for me in Europe.
Getting errors from the web mention service I use and need to work out why, so trying from here to see whether anything will be be received at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/make-it-simpler
New episode: What is Chametz?
The Hebrew Bible singles out five grains for special treatment. Two are easy: wheat and barley. Modern science may help identify the other three, but will that change centuries of custom and tradition.
https://eatthispodcast.com/chametz
Latest newsletter revisits Passover and asks a fifth question: if you are an observant Jewish sourdough baker, what do you do with your starter over Passover?
Questions too for sustainable fish, citrus salads and livestock emissions.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-236-leavened/
2024-04-20
Belated #rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240418-W-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.882223, 12.448771
* Thursday 18 April, 2024
* 424.12 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
In the park, and well off my normal paths.
Cream crackered after spending an hour and a half trying to separate a well overgrown and neglected canna lily from its concrete trough. Very hard going, but now that I have replanted a few offsets, I am taking a well earned break.
TIL about using the Python calendar module from Terminal. What magic is this?
https://docs.python.org/3/library/calendar.html#calendar-cli
The cinematography on the new Ripley is drop dead gorgeous. That is all.
TIL Midnight Diner on Netflix is adapted from a manga series.
https://imaginair.es/@Sammael99/112276428841845445#.
Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for April 14, 2024 - GoComics
Incentives are (almost) everything.
For utterly mysterious reasons my Apple Watch SE lost power from 100% 39 minutes into a three hour hike this morning. Seems fine after a full recharge, but the numbers lie.
Checked into Gasthaus Woracziczky
Superb traditional food. Ham with fresh horseradish. Rostbraten. Beer.
so good I went back the next day. Perfect fried chicken.
I’m traveling myself, and you will probably be gone before I get back on Monday. We could have had a mini-HWC. Enjoy yourself.
Wait, what? You’re in Rome?
Posted my monthly update. I realise that this is a good antidote to me thinking that I have frittered my time away. I haven't, but I need to consider the things I've done to provide myself with a more accurate picture.
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/monthly-report-2024-03
I know this is a really unfashionable point of view, but I like daylight savings time. The day’s work is done and there another couple of hours of light to enjoy. I honestly don’t get why some people get so aerated about it.
My OCD is giving me grief about the different line weights in ↗ and ↘ in the latest post on my website.
No. idea what you are talking about. The h1 element is right there, wrapping the words “Why does the Labarum theme not have a header”.
It gave me no pleasure to read Brad DeLong's recent Dealing with Global Warming Over the Next Fifty Years, in which he eviscerates several climate deniers https://braddelong.substack.com/p/dealing-with-global-warming-over
No, wait. It gave me a great deal of pleasure. Do yourself a favour.
Grammarphobia says it has no clue about the origins of "chumbalone"meaning an idiot, or stupid. https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2024/03/chumbolone.html
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I reckon it derives from the Italian ciambellone, like a big pound cake with a hole in the middle. Can anyone confirm?
Or could it be from coglione?
Now Able to POSSE to Mastodon
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I have been looking for a way to syndicate from here to Mastodon, and landed on the KnownMastodon plugin. Unfortunately, that did not work for me. I did a bit of digging and discovered that the error was in a piece of Mastodon authorisation code and that cdn has implemented a fix, but that did not seem to have made it into the code I downloaded. Further digging revealed that the fix was actually by crscheid and that even though they had created a proper pull request, that had not been merged either. I did what any sane cargo culter would do, downloaded the fix, stuck it in my site, crossed my fingers and tried again. Lo!