Grammarphobia says it has no clue about the origins of "chumbalone"meaning an idiot, or stupid. https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2024/03/chumbolone.html
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I reckon it derives from the Italian ciambellone, like a big pound cake with a hole in the middle. Can anyone confirm?
Or could it be from coglione?
Another test of syndication.
Found another person who syndicated from WithKnown to Mastodon, and wondering what technology they used. Probably the Mastodon plugin that is not working for me.
Testing POSSE to Mastodon using the KnownMastodon plugin. I like the fact that (if it works) syndication is optional for each post.
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...
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/
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.
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/
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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🐯 Animal #194 🫎
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🦕 Animal #193 🦭
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🐹 Animal #192 🐲
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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
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I'm jealous of how apparently easy it is to have sidenotes with this Hugo theme.
🦘 Animal #189 🦃
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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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 🐾
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7
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That took some doing.
🐱 Animal #186 🐡
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Absolutely the worst one yet. Completely meaningless.
🦇 Animal #184 🦖
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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 🐔
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🔥 11 | Avg. Guesses: 7
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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 🦢
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Got off to a bad start.
🐛 Animal #180 🐱
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🦋 Animal #179 🐩
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🐇 Animal #178 🦂
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Repetition!
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 🐿️
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🐈 Animal #176 🦓
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4
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Bad common name, again.
🐾 Animal #175 🦩
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
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🐝 Animal #174 🦭
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4
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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 🐁
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
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Wow! That was a quick refresher course.
🐠 Animal #172 🐗
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🐂 Animal #170 🐈
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
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Had to ask for a hint.
🦒 Animal #169 🕊️
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 13 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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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/
🐞 Animal #168 🐮
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🔥 12 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2
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Reading about how Terence Eden has integrated solar panels, smart metering and a fair-sized battery makes me very envious. I've never heard of anything like that on offer in Italy and as a renter rather than owner, there is absolutely no incentive for me to find out more. But I would genuinely love to pre-pay for my electricity for 10 years
🐁 Animal #167 🦌
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 11 | Avg. Guesses: 7.5
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🐢 Animal #166 🦬
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
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🔥 10 | Avg. Guesses: 7.7
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