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Jeremy Cherfas

Broke out my IndieWeb reader and added some feeds to get going again, thanks to your prompt.

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Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

Is that the standard Activity display you have? My watch is a 6SE and I do not usually see heart rate because the strap is loose and never have the map or weather.

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What's missing, for me, is a solid social reader that is as easy to use as the Big Silo. I'm using one now, which gives a bit more context that a simple RSS feed and allows me to reply, I hope. A single place to interact, rather than N different places.

Jeremy Cherfas

Primed for Power: A Short Cultural History of Protein downloaded and ready to be read. Thanks @jessfanzo for the link to https://www.tabledebates.org/publication/primed-power-short-cultural-history-protein

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As CSNY never sang, Feed Your Children Well

When I published last week's episode, talking to @TinaMoffat3 about how important school meals are in showing children what it means to eat well, I had no inkling that this would be

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/small-bites/

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Just published the latest issue of Eat This Newsletter, concocted from bits and pieces of edible material found here and there. Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-190-inundated-3184/ and while you're there, consider subscribing.

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Improvements over at searchmysite.net -- where searches can now be converted to feeds and, thus, subscribed to, definitely merit further investigation. https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/lots-of-new-web-feed-rss-and-atom-related-functionality/

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I've never really understood why Byword has not so far embraced micropub, which would enable posting to all sorts of different recipient systems. I never used it to post to WordPress because I has MarsEdit for that, but I would surely use it to post here.





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The Squeeze smelled something odd as we got on the plane. Minutes later, the captain agreed and called an engineer with a thick binder to confirm. Something was well dodgy, so here we are languishing back in the terminal and waiting for a new plane. The Romance of Travel.ℒ️

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Currently reading: Dark Star by Alan Furst, ISBN: 9780375759994





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Finished reading: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, ISBN: 9780142438008





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Python dabblers: how do you avoid the dreaded "module not found" errors, when you know you installed the modules? I tried to get into virtual environments, but it seems like overkill. One nice all-encompassing install would do it for me, but it may be too late. Help!

Jeremy Cherfas

Created a portable install of Reaper, my digital audio workstation, which I hope will make it easier to work on sound wherever I find myself.

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When is a tangerine not a tangerine? When it is a tomato! Italians are embracing tomato diversity as farmers, breeders and eaters select new orange tomatoes to take advantage of loosening seed regulations in the EU.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/orange-toms/

With @matteo_petitti of @retesemi

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In honour of last week's 29th annual Golden Spurtle championship, I refer you to two previous epsiodes.

Porridge: Not your usual all-day breakfast https://www.eatthispodcast.com/porridge/ and
Why a spurtle makes a superior porridge stirrer https://www.eatthispodcast.com/spurtle/

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Latest Eat This Newsletter has it all: mac and cheese, sourdough, Indian Indian, microplastics in mothers milk, and the drive to large chain restaurants.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-189-inauthentic/

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Totally frustrated trying to update the url of a broken reference link in Wikipedia. After half an hour of well-intentioned getting nowhere, I abandoned my civic duty. If anyone wants it, they can find it themselves.

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What a shame. This site had been spam-free since August 7, and then some dork had to show up and ruin it.

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Very happy to discover that my episode on Garum, Rome's museum of food and cooking, is peaking this week in Nigeria. What are they hearing that you haven't? eatthispodcast.com/garum-museum/

Jeremy Cherfas

First time I have needed to restore files from @arqbackup in a genuine emergency, and it was such a good experience. Smooth, straightforward, did the job. Phew!

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It astonishes me that a fad diet can admonish its followers to "drink the Snake juice" without, apparently, a trace of irony. And that reminds me, whatever happened to oil pulling? Not that I really care.

https://www.eatthispodcast.com/fad-diets/

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Here's how to guarantee yourself a more interesting Monday. Sign up for Eat This Newsletter (free!) at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas and wait until tomorrow when the latest issue will appear, as if by magic, in your inbox.

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Finished reading: The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby

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This is a first. Never before had a sign-up say "Email address is invalid. Can you try a different one?" for a masked email from @Fastmail. Step forward sonix.ai to claim your prize.

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This is very bad news for me. On the one foot, NB 624s are the only sneaker-type shoes that come in a width that accommodates my misshapen feet. On the other, I'm reluctant to add to the CEO's profits. Recommend another brand, please.

Jeremy Cherfas

Decision, decisions: is a touchbar on an M2 MacBook Pro worth €100? That’s the price difference from an M2 MBA, and the MBP has a slightly smaller screen and weighs 160 gm more. I’ve never seen anyone rave about a touchbar. So, what’s the deal? All thoughts welcome.

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Finished reading: Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy by Gary Paul Nabhan

Jeremy Cherfas

Finished reading: Sourdough by Robin Sloan

Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby, ISBN: 9780007597833



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Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy by Gary Paul Nabhan, ISBN: 9780140239720

Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: Sourdough by Robin Sloan, ISBN: 9781250192752





Jeremy Cherfas

Finished reading: Alibi by Joseph Kanon, ISBN: 9780312425906





Jeremy Cherfas

Finishing touches done for this week's Eat This Newsletter, with the Catherine Effect, from @BienassisLoic, not the pizza effect, from @NPR, groundnuts in The Gambia, and the horrible Hamlet Fire, from @BryantSimon. Sign up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

I've never really been an outliner sort of person, although I know I should try harder. So I'm taking a look at [bike](https://bikeguide.hogbaysoftware.com/) and really liking it. Much more intuitive than things I've used before, so it may stick. Need to check that Save As script.

Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: Night Soldiers by Alan Furst, ISBN: 9780375760006

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New issue of Eat This Newsletter out now, with raw material provided by @kitchenbee @historicuk @minimaxir and a minor kerfuffle in the august pages of @PNASNews.

Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-185-heat/ and feel free to subscribe, for free.

Jeremy Cherfas

Biggest mistake I ever made was starting a "free trial" of @RealVNC because now my original Home VNC Viewer no longer works and I cannot find a way to revert.

Not surprised that only 25% of people found this useful https://help.realvnc.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003474552#on-the-device-you-want-to-control-from-0-4

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Latest issue of Eat This Newsletter is about to drop, racing through the backlog so normal service can be restored ASAP. There's hops, heritage grains and climate change, plus agricultural policy in South Africa and the US.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-184-catching-up-with-reality/

Consider subscribing.

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Slightly puzzled by Epilogue for MB for those of us who do not have a paid account. Does it feed my timeline, eventually? If it does, I might consider PESOS rather than indiebookclub and POSSE. Also, two way traffic, to open someone’s link in MB would encourage conversation.

Jeremy Cherfas

Finished reading: Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane, ISBN: 9780393358094

Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, ISBN: 9780143037071

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"You begin the book a sober reader, calmly appreciating the complexity of historical causation, and you finish it a raving wheat monomaniac."

Glad to know I am not alone. Fine review of @nelsonhist's book in the NYRB

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/07/21/wielding-wheat-oceans-of-grain-nelson/

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Abracadabra!

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Here, have a webmention in recognition of this bold leap.

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Whoa! New artwork, parts of which look just like the leaves on my cannas. @cdevroe

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Quite hard.

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So many vowels

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No coalmines around here.

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Indeed it is!