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Jeremy Cherfas

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

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

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/

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

2024-04-20

Belated #rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240418-W-AY68O8

1 min read

Composite view, with the rabbit quest on the left and a photo on the right; the photo shows a tangle of undergrowth in front of the viewer, the quest target about 10 metres away.

* On foot
* 41.882223, 12.448771
* Thursday 18 April, 2024
* 424.12 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap

In the park, and well off my normal paths.

Jeremy Cherfas

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.

Jeremy Cherfas

TIL about using the Python calendar module from Terminal. What magic is this?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/calendar.html#calendar-cli

Jeremy Cherfas

The cinematography on the new Ripley is drop dead gorgeous. That is all.

Jeremy Cherfas

TIL Midnight Diner on Netflix is adapted from a manga series.

https://imaginair.es/@Sammael99/112276428841845445#.