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Jeremy Cherfas

2023-08-30

Ready for the shake-down cruise

1 min read

Aluminium handlerbars ready to be wrapped with tape.
Before

After

Handlerbars wrapped more or less neatly with black tape.
Final work on fixing up my 1979 steel bicycle. 

Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: English Food: A People's History by Diane Purkiss, ISBN: 9780007255566



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Jeremy Cherfas

Wow; what a great piece weaving together so many strands into a cohesive skein. Thank you. (I'd still like to read your version, if you ever write it.)

Jeremy Cherfas

against apps, for wander lines – The Homebound Symphony

Long, and fascinating, preamble to the essential point.

Jeremy Cherfas

Finished reading: Weatherland by Alexandra Harris, ISBN: 9780500292655



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Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on werd.io :

Interesting to see someone else dithering about how to present smaller, stream-like notes and longer articles. I have not resolved this to my own satisfaction, nor have I found a home I control for my newsletter. I have a domain, I just don't know how best to make use of it.

Jeremy Cherfas

Top tip from a Park Tool video: use an old toe strap to keep centre-pull brakes close while you fasten cable. Worked a charm. We now can stop. Next: new chain and gear setting so we can go.

Jeremy Cherfas

When Naomi Klein Realized People Regularly Confused Her With Naomi Wolf, She Went Down a Rabbit Hole | Vanity Fair

My treating Wolf like a branding problem would be about as off-brand as I could get.

Fascinating read, and now I am trying to think whether I have ever mistaken the Naomis.

Jeremy Cherfas

Thanks to Ton for the reminder about isochrones. I have been thinking along similar lines and may well try to adapt the isochrone mapping tool to my needs.