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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.
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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!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
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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!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9
https://metazooa.com
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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!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
🐹 Animal #192 🐲
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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🔥 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!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
I'm jealous of how apparently easy it is to have sidenotes with this Hugo theme.
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* On bicycle
* 41.863416, 12.457319
* Tuesday 6 February, 2024
* 422.96 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
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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!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
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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!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
That took some doing.
🐱 Animal #186 🐡
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8
https://metazooa.com
Absolutely the worst one yet. Completely meaningless.
🦇 Animal #184 🦖
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9
https://metazooa.com
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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!
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🔥 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!
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🔥 10 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
Got off to a bad start.
🐛 Animal #180 🐱
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
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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!
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🔥 8 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
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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!
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🔥 7 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
Repetition!
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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!
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🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2
https://metazooa.com
🐈 Animal #176 🦓
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4
https://metazooa.com
Bad common name, again.
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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.
🐾 Animal #175 🦩
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://metazooa.com
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.877312, 12.450351
* Sunday 21 January, 2024
* 422.51 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.877312&mlon=12.450351#map=14/41.877312/12.450351)
🐝 Animal #174 🦭
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4
https://metazooa.com
Even after a hint, which I didn’t actually need, the paucity of potential candidate was unhelpful.
Very excited to have a new season of #sceneonradio appear in my #podcast feed, looking into the coup d’etat in Wilmington, North Carolina, of 1898. John Biewen and his collaborators have produced some of the most compelling podcasts on racism and sexism, and judging by episode 1 this will be every bit as good as previous series.
🦘 Animal #173 🐁
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://metazooa.com
Wow! That was a quick refresher course.
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* On foot
* 41.884197, 12.466269
* Friday 19 January, 2024
* 422.49 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Close to home, and still off my usual beaten track.
🐠 Animal #172 🐗
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://metazooa.com
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* On bicycle
* 41.85935, 12.483711
* Thursday 18 January 2024
* 422.47 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
I was out on the bicycle running errands, so it was an extra delight to bag a rabbit-quest.
🐂 Animal #170 🐈
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
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🔥 14 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://metazooa.com
Had to ask for a hint.
🦒 Animal #169 🕊️
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 13 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
New Eat This Newsletter with organic genetic manipulation, industrial chicken-like products, the etymology of devil's dung, America's water woes and the magic of cooked.wiki
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/brave-new-year/
