🐛 Animal #180 🐱
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 7
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🦋 Animal #179 🐩
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 8 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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🐇 Animal #178 🦂
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 7 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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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 🐿️
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2
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🐈 Animal #176 🦓
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4
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Bad common name, again.
🐾 Animal #175 🦩
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
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🐝 Animal #174 🦭
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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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 🐁
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
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Wow! That was a quick refresher course.
🐠 Animal #172 🐗
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
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🐂 Animal #170 🐈
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
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🔥 14 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
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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 🐮
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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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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🐅 Animal #165 🐬
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 7.6
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🐠 Animal #164 🦜
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 8 | Avg. Guesses: 7.9
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🐓 Animal #163 🦕
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
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🔥 7 | Avg. Guesses: 8
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🐟 Animal #162 🐊
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
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Total guesswork.
🦏 Animal #161 🦬
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 8.2
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🕊️ Animal #160 🐈
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.6
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Had to ask for a clue.
🦎 Animal #159 🐰
I figured it out in 15 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 6.3
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Spoiled for choice.
🐕 Animal #158 🪲
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 3.3
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Has anyone ever loved either Sharepoint or Teams? I mean, people who have to suffer them because policy, not the people who set or implement the policy, obviously.
🐘 Animal #157 🦆
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 4
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Total fluke.
rabbit_quest 20240102-W-APFL86
* On foot
* 38.711849, -75.082336
* Tuesday 2 January 2024
* 422.19 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=38.711849&mlon=-75.082336#map=14/38.7118/-75.0823)
🦈 Animal #155 🦕
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 9.5
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🦘 Animal #154 🦙
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5
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🐡 Animal #153 🐀
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 12
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No spoilers, but man, I got a whole lot of wrong guesses along the way
Note to self: do not use Google Maps to find the correct bus stop at an airport
🦣 Animal #151 🪰
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 8.5
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#metazooa
A great story of creative practicality. How I like reading about other peoples' projects. My own, not so much.
🐆 Animal #150 🐐
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 9.7
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#metazooa
🐇 Animal #148 🦫
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5
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#metazooa
What a coincidence. In 2023, I didn't read the exact same 20 books that Austin Kleon didn't read.
A new departure, after 10 years of Eat This Podcast, a Xmas quiz. With prizes.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/2023-quiz/
Impressed that you found Valentino. One of our favourite places when we are around that neighbourhood.
New issue of Eat This Newsletter is up and available, with thoughts on lead-poisoning in baby foods, declining nutrition in cereal crops, dietary advice on ultraprocessed foods, a rumination on rural repair and a late entrant to tosh techno-fix of the year.
All at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-225-the-world-turns/
I know I have left this very late, but I wonder whether anyone has recommendations for a good place to dine on New Year's Eve in Dublin?
Today's Eat This Newsletter has a couple of items about quinoa, takes a closer look at red-fleshed apples and rounds up some slightly delayed takes on Thanksgiving. Read it at
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-224-life-happens/
These 40 questions -- in my case direct from Chuck Grimmett -- could make for a satisfying end-of-year exercise and maybe even an IndieWeb carnival topic.
Currently reading: Billy Phelan's Greatest Game by William Kennedy, ISBN: 9780140063400
#Fiction
Interesting to come across Bryan Lehrer's piece on the same day as Ben Werdmuller's. Personal histories, both focussed on building for the internet, sorta, and both coming, I think, to the same conclusion: money is essential and money spoils everything.
#IndieWeb
Very interesting personal history from @benwerd ... and here I remain, ready and willing to move from one-off donations to paying a real price for WithKnown.
#IndieWeb
I fundamentally disagree. My best days start slowly, with hydration (tea), a little light scrolling, some internal planning and generally enjoying a bit of peace and quiet and loving company. An hour will do.
Latest Eat This Newsletter includes:
Can you talk about the hummus wars when there is an actual war on?
School food in Nairobi
Global — and Californian — production of calories
Silent Doritos
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/223-enough-to-go-around/
Finally offered the opportunity to pay to go ad free on Meta. At 12.99 a month, enough to put off most people, something tells me my information is worth much more than that. They’re not stupid.