* On foot
* 41.886868, 12.440913
* Sunday 17 March, 2024
* 423.58 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
After two long days in front of the computer, happy to see the quest in the local park again. The photo is facing directly away from the location.
Trying to use IFTTT to POSSE from here to @etp@indieweb.social and discovering, alas, that use of a webhook requires payment. Not that I'm against paying, just that this particular use cannot justify the cost. Next stop, the ActivityPub plugin.
Movie might, My Generation, with Michael Caine. Excellent documentary about London in the 1960s. Loads of nostalgia. What a time and place to be growing up in.
Probably not relevant, but I have to transfer a site from WordPress to ClassicPress and I might do it on Saturday and take the opportunity to make it a bit more IndieWeb.
Here's a fun one from this day in 2007: Dr Watson and the Missing Money
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/dr-watson-and-the-missing-money
Cracking piece from Max Walker in Vittles, on the Devon Split, as a vehicle for the industrialisation of London's milk supply. I've never tasted one, but I kept thinking, which came first, the Split or the Marritozzo. Still none the wiser.
https://open.substack.com/pub/vittles/p/cream-is-thicker-than-blood-the-rise?r=1ahjl&utm_campaig...
2024-03-17
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240317-W-AY68O8
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The on-this-day feature on my main site threw up a little gem today from way back when in 2006. I was so thrilled by the fact that the post is still live, and by the fact that it is as relevant today as it was then (perhaps more so) that I am linking to it again. https://lancemannion.typepad.com/lance_mannion/2006/03/living_large.html
A new Eat This Newsletter: the other shoe drops on lead in cinnamon; rye in Scandinavia and the recent oldest bread, which requires a small qualifier; doubts about agricultural subsidies that “that when reached will make them redundant”; and a history of British pies https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-233-leavened/
Peasants are not revolting. Farmers are revolting
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That’s my take on the agricultural unrest happening across Europe.
Of course we would not be here if we still relied on peasant farmers and the meagre surplus that could be extracted from them without actually killing them. Nevertheless, today’s farmers are not their descendants.
Just one item in the latest Issue of Eat This Newsletter.
2024-02-24
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240224-W-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.8765579, 12.46266
* Saturday 24 February, 2024
* 423.34 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
In the garden of a nunnery.
2024-02-23
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240223-B-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.895401, 12.453739
* Friday 23 February, 2024
* 423.32 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
NB: The bicycle quest was a lot closer than the walking quest, but it was still a good long walk of 7.5km round trip.
Also, while the quest itself was visually boring, it was very close to the Russian Orthodox church, which is less so.
I'm not going to be deleting any drafts on 29 February, because I don't have any. Well, maybe a couple for ongoing client work. All my own "drafts" are just notes that may or may not end up as published things, so they don't represent any kind of drain or debt, for me.
2024-02-12
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240212-W-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.87050, 12.45489
* Monday 12 February, 2024
* 423.19 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Right in the middle of the tram tracks.
Eat This Newsletter gathers stories from around the internet and the world. From mother's milk in a bioreactor to the rural Chinese restaurants of Victoria, with stops in Rajasthan, Japan and Mexico.
Question: what happens to substandard fruit in Japan?
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-231-apologies/
🐈 Animal #196 🐻
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
🟥🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
2024-02-11
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240211-W-AY68O8
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rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240211-W-AY68O8
* On foot
* 41.88118, 12.44558
* Sunday 12 February, 2024
* 423.15 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
🐯 Animal #194 🫎
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟥🟥🟥🟧🟩
🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9
https://metazooa.com
2024-02-09
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240209-W-AY68O8
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rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240209-W-AY68O8
* On foot
* 41.88226, 12.43950
* Friday 9 February, 2024
* 423.09 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
🦕 Animal #193 🦭
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟥🟥🟧🟧🟩
🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
🐹 Animal #192 🐲
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
🟥🟥🟨🟩🟩🟩
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
Solution proved simple. Apply for a free account at Stadia Maps. Wait for (and chase up) verification email. Verify. Give Stadia this domain and everything now works. Any further effort on the checkins plugin will probably wait until the next problem arises.
🐘 Animal #191 🦙
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟨🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
I'm jealous of how apparently easy it is to have sidenotes with this Hugo theme.
2024-02-06
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240206-W-AY68O8
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* On bicycle
* 41.863416, 12.457319
* Tuesday 6 February, 2024
* 422.96 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
2024-02-05
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240205-W-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.885237, 12.457542
* Monday 5 February, 2024
* 422.92 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
🦘 Animal #189 🦃
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
2024-02-03
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240203-W-AY68O8
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- On foot
- 41.875478, 12.461943
- Saturday 3 February, 2024
- 422.85 ppm CO2
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.875478&mlon=12.461943#map=14/41.875478/12.461943)
Too busy to post on the day
Well, this is a drag. Just discovered that all my Checkins at WithKnown show an error because they are not authenticated at Stadia Maps. I hope I can find the problem and fix it.
#withknown
🐢 Animal #187 🐾
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
🟧🟧🟨🟨🟧🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
That took some doing.
🐱 Animal #186 🐡
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟧🟨🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8
https://metazooa.com
Absolutely the worst one yet. Completely meaningless.
🦇 Animal #184 🦖
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
🟥🟨🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9
https://metazooa.com
2024-01-30
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240130-W-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.890238, 12.480799
* Tuesday 30 January, 2024
* 422.75 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Amazing that this quest was in the middle of the road right by one of our most-used bus stops.
I've just set up a couple of Alfred custom web searches, prompted by Wouter Groeneveld's post How To Search The Internet at https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/01/how-to-search-the-internet/ No idea yet whether I these will ever imprint themselves on my muscle memory, though I do want to try.
Such an amazing chain of events with such interesting consequences. Alas, neither of my parents were the diarying kind, but I definitely appreciate my own as an aide-memoire. Seeing what I did on this day is always fun.
🐂 Animal #182 🐔
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟥🟨🟨🟩🟩
🔥 11 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
Interesting to read Devastatia's IndieWeb Carnival entry, which opens with an account of The Breakfast Club, the day after we saw The Holdovers. We were talking about great high school movies of the past, and of course TBC was among them (also If, The History Boys etc). As a Boomer, I wonder how those and The Holdovers (set in 1971) come across to recent generations.
🦧 Animal #181 🦢
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
🟥🟥🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 10 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
Got off to a bad start.
🐛 Animal #180 🐱
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
2024-01-26
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240126-W-AY68O8
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* On foot
* 41.894903, 12.463351
* Friday 26January, 2024
* 422.6 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Longer write-up on the mothership.
🦋 Animal #179 🐩
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
🟥🟧🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩
🔥 8 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
Unable to login to Monocle
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Monocle would not allow me to login using this site, saying there was no microsub endpoint. This was because in upgrading Known, I had forgotten that I had added the link to microsub before. I had also forgotten which of the hundreds of template files I had to edit in order to do that. In the end I found it with a brute-force search for all files ending in `.tpl.php` The file in question lives at `./IdnoPlugins/IndiePub/templates/default/indiepub/shell/head.tpl.php`.
Having found the correct file to edit, the rest was straightforward thanks to [excellent instructions.
🐇 Animal #178 🦂
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 7 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
Repetition!
2024-01-25
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240125-W-AY68O8
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* On bicycle
* 41.871087, 12.44482
* Thursday 25 January, 2024
* 422.58 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Had to go out for fresh coffee, so why not?
Robert has a good solution to blocking text-to-speech narration in audiobooks, not a problem for me as I don't listen. But ... the 2023 roundup of Tyler Cowan's podcast said they were recording his voice for a custom text-to-speech. Might be worthwhile.
🦤 Animal #177 🐿️
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟥🟥🟥🟨🟩
🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2
https://metazooa.com
🐈 Animal #176 🦓
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
🟥🟥🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4
https://metazooa.com
Bad common name, again.
2024-01-22
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240122-W-AYB80D
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rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240122-W-AYB80D
* On foot
* 41.930987, 12.469606
* Monday 22 January, 2024
* 422.53 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.930987&mlon=12.469606#map=14/41.930987/12.469606)
A little detour before catching a bus home.