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://metazooa.com
🐠 Animal #164 🦜
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 8 | Avg. Guesses: 7.9
https://metazooa.com
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://metazooa.com
🐟 Animal #162 🐊
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://metazooa.com
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://metazooa.com
🕊️ Animal #160 🐈
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.6
https://metazooa.com
Had to ask for a clue.
🦎 Animal #159 🐰
I figured it out in 15 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 6.3
https://metazooa.com
Spoiled for choice.
2024-01-05
rabbit_quest geohashing 20240105-W-APFL86
* On foot
* 38.716759, -75.079303
* Friday 5 January 2024
* 422.24 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.716759&mlon=-75.079303#map=14/38.7168/-75.0793)
Behind that window.
🐕 Animal #158 🪲
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 3.3
https://metazooa.com
Has anyone ever loved either Sharepoint or Teams? I mean, people who have to suffer them because policy, not the people who set or implement the policy, obviously.
2024-01-04
rabbit_quest geohashing 20240104-W-APFL86
* On foot
* 38.709716, -75.074655
* Thursday 4 January 2024
* 422.23 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.709716&mlon=-75.074655#map=14/38.7097/-75.0747)
On the spot! (At least within phone location accuracy.)
🐘 Animal #157 🦆
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 4
https://metazooa.com
Total fluke.
2024-01-03
rabbit_quest geohashing 20240103-W-APFL86
* On foot
* 38.72420, -75.09154
* Wednesday 3 January 2024
* Unrecorded ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.724209&mlon=-75.09154#map=14/38.7118/-75.0823)
The perils of a busy day. Didn't record some of the details and didn't post yesterday. Maybe a Shortcut would help create a draft post.
2023 (Phil Gyford’s website)
It’s more than paying my costs and – while it shouldn’t take cash to show gratitude – it is pleasing that people get enough pleasure and interest from the site to pay a few $/£/€.
Ain’t that the truth!
rabbit_quest 20240102-W-APFL86
* On foot
* 38.711849, -75.082336
* Tuesday 2 January 2024
* 422.19 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.711849&mlon=-75.082336#map=14/38.7118/-75.0823)
Fogknife : My colonoscopy strategies (8 minute read)
It is always good to be reminded that some things that you might dread are not, in fact, dreadful. I wrote about my own first colonoscopy back in 2009 and luckily, unlike Jason, there was no need to refine my technique.The next time, there was less liquid to chug but the routine was essentially the same. Conclusion: just do it.
🦈 Animal #155 🦕
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 9.5
https://metazooa.com
🦘 Animal #154 🦙
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5
https://metazooa.com
🐡 Animal #153 🐀
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 12
https://metazooa.com
No spoilers, but man, I got a whole lot of wrong guesses along the way
Note to self: do not use Google Maps to find the correct bus stop at an airport
🦣 Animal #151 🪰
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 8.5
https://metazooa.com
#metazooa
A great story of creative practicality. How I like reading about other peoples' projects. My own, not so much.
🐆 Animal #150 🐐
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 9.7
https://metazooa.com
#metazooa
🐇 Animal #148 🦫
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5
https://metazooa.com
#metazooa
What a coincidence. In 2023, I didn't read the exact same 20 books that Austin Kleon didn't read.
2023-12-24
Rabbit-quest reached during a 16km ride
1 min read
rabbit_quest geohashing 20231224-B-AYG8O8.
- On bicycle
- 41.913869, 12.457505
- Sunday 24 December, 2023
- 421.91 ppm CO2
- OpenStreetMap
A new departure, after 10 years of Eat This Podcast, a Xmas quiz. With prizes.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/2023-quiz/
2023-12-19
1 min read
rabbit_quest geohashing 20231219-W-AY68OD.
- On foot
- 41.881408, 12.454396
- Tuesday 19 December, 2023
- 421.73 ppm CO2
- OpenStreetMap
Impressed that you found Valentino. One of our favourite places when we are around that neighbourhood.
New issue of Eat This Newsletter is up and available, with thoughts on lead-poisoning in baby foods, declining nutrition in cereal crops, dietary advice on ultraprocessed foods, a rumination on rural repair and a late entrant to tosh techno-fix of the year.
All at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-225-the-world-turns/