2019-04-15
1 min read
'Debatable' List Of '100 Most Jewish' Foods Leaves Plenty Of Room For Kibbitzing in The Salt is an interesting review. Makes me want to read the book. Also makes me want to promote today's episode about one Jewish food and one arguably Christian food. Coming in a couple of hours.
2019-04-12
1 min read
People in NYC probably already know of this astonishing resource but in case you don't, or are just visiting, you should.
https://www.eatingintranslation.com/2019/04/new-york-area-food-events-april-11-18.html
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019)
Great, great man and a terrific teacher. Why he didn't get the Nobel for triplets and mRNA will be a mystery forever.
Alas, the link to the "really powerful tools" for automation goes nowhere. Or rather, it returns me to the page it is on. @justinmduke
Codename: nvUltra - BrettTerpstra.com
"it works with multiple folders and sub-folders"
This could be a game changer.
So good to be back home after a week away. I mean, I had a great time and all, but home is best.
Friends of the Fountain Pen: How do you cope with bottles of ink that are wide and shallow? Is a syringe the only option for making use of the remaining ink when the pen filler simply won't work?
I have never, for one second, regretted the money I spent on my chair more than 20 years ago. Not even when I had to have two technicians here to replace the seat. And now that the gas spring is leaking a bit, I might have to have them back. Truly, what's the point of a decent keyboard if you tie yourself in knots using it all day?
Julia Reda on Twitter: "Dark day for internet freedom: The @Europarl_EN has rubber-stamped copyright reform including #Article13 and #Article11. MEPs refused to even consider amendments. The results of the final vote: 348 in favor, 274 against #SaveYourInternet… https://t.co/Wb2xwuNUZQ";
A sad day indeed.
"“But I’m not a lawyer. I’m an agent.”"
PESOS from Reading.am.
"Take my wife, please !"
PESOS from Reading.am.
Waiting to hear Lawrence Lessing talk about the EU proposals and other stuff. A tick for the life list.
Still trying to work out why a photo that includes a hashtag (from Instagram) fails to show as a photo on micro.blog, while a photo without any hashtags shows up just fine.
Anyone have a clue?
Adactio: Journal—Going Offline—the talk of the book
logic is more important than code. In other words, figuring out what you’re trying to accomplish (and describing it clearly) is more important than typing curly braces and semi-colons. Programming is an act of translation. Before you can translate something, you need to be able to articulate it clearly in your own language first.
2019-03-05
1 min read
There is order in the universe. I know, because on the very day that I finally knuckled down and wrote a pathetic little spreadsheet to do some bread calculations for me, the Gods of Serendipity put in one of my RSS feeds, and my gob is smacked.