Perhaps it was from you that I learned about @georgethepoet. In any case, his episode on Grenfell Tower was astonishingly good. So full of understanding and also so provocative. Can't wait to get stuck in to the live episode.

Just sent an email to the lucky winner of 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot from @prospectbooks Now to wait and see whether they want it. Of course they will. But if not, I'll pick someone else at random from my newsletter subscribers.

Snagging on the new website theme is progressing nicely, although some things do take a while for the cache to empty. I think I'll go for a walk and stop worrying about it.

#IndieWeb

What is the woman on the left doing? Is this some arcane form of Chinese exercise that I am not at all familiar with?

Rode my bike in town today for the first time in months -- and it's true what they say. I had not forgotten how.

Just flipped the switch on tickets for the next one-day Sourdough U course in Rome. Come and learn how to care for and use a sourdough leaven. Suitable for experienced bakers and absolute beginners. https://ti.to/sourdough-u/2019-11

TIL that there is such a thing as a non-food interpretation of 🌮

I've never actually paid attention to the small drop in volume when I do the final render to MP3 files; maybe I should.

I'm all for radishes as a nice bit of crunch. Plus, they're so easy and quick to grow, even in restricted spaces, and a home-grown radish is even more rewarding.

Finished reading: The Cockroach by Ian McEwan

Complex session on how to markup and consume a post that contains multiple photos and videos in any order.

"Meat traders came out in support of vegan activists who occupied Smithfield Market in London last night."

Happy to take your word for it, as The Times won't let me read without registering.

Uh-oh. Asking people to stop eating meat is one thing, stopping people who sell it for a living is quite another. I fear that the blockade of Smithfield market in London might prove to be an XR error.

I have been tempted recently to start using Chrome again, specifically to work with Lighthouse. Maybe if I just restrict myself to that use only ...

Not to deny your personal experience, but in view of the number opf psychology experiments that cannot be replicated, I wonder whether any else has confirmed the one you cite.

Having only recently begun to do this particular version of high intensity circuit training, I hope I'll have no problem in changing what I call it.

And then there's the question of sautéed radishes. I've had one reply so far, telling me they are super delicious.

So who else has tried that?

Surely the very best reason to pay judges, especially if you are charging scads to enter and attend the ceremony, is to ensure that all judges are beyond bribery.

Not you, of course ...

Decisions decisions. Do I accept the invitation to beta test nvUltra, or continue to enjoy The ARchive, or attempt to ride two horses in one ring?

Thanks. That's a very small part of his argument, and we've just had another good chat in which I asked specifically whether the UK could exclude or tax food imports. He said, absolutely. Look at Japan. Food is a strategic issue and outside the WTO. My fear remains that after Brexit there still won't be good food system policies.

Currently reading: 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot by Peter Hertzmann, ISBN: 9781909248632

#non-fiction
#food
#cooking

Using Omnibear to reply to this post, as requested.

I'm told that it is not difficult to create a Shortcut that will effectively publish to your site via Micropub, but I don't do that myself.

TIL about Chewbacca Mask Lady, in the context of a New Yorker article about the measles outbreaks. Life is interesting.

I've just had occasion to remember what a great thing PopClip https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/ is. If I could trigger when I have selected text from the keyboard I would be deliriously happy.

OH as two young American women look at travel brochures: I’ll do Africa some other time.

Just been through the annual ritual of replacing the batteries in my Garmin Vivofit, which is nice, but didn't do anything for the broken display segment. Still, I can live with it.

I do fear that "episode" is going the way of "blog post," a battle long since lost.

When it comes to mushrooms, always best to be absolutely sure they are edible rather than fairly sure they aren't. But you did miss a treat.

Just confirmed that my little script for posting podcasts I've listened to from Overcast to WithKnown fails when there is more than one episode of the same show in the queue. Pinning that down is going to be ... tricky.

It will be interesting to see how tonz develops this idea of an automated personal assistant. I know other people use Shortcuts in all sorts of clever ways to do similar things. I still prefer paper and pencil and a sort of bullet journal.

Currently reading: Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Half a world away, two outages fried my wifi extender. You have my sympathy.

I realise the risk I run saying this, but I do believe that the amount of spiced ham this site has received has dropped off over the past six months.

OK, from Omnibear, testing a link to webmention.rocks #4

This is a test reply from Omnibear, to try and isolate why webmentions appear not to be being sent by WithKnown.

What's interesting about this webmention is that on my site it comes from unknown and content is empty.

I also need to test webmentions, I suppose.

Here we go again, with New York City set to ban foie gras. https://newfoodeconomy.org/new-york-city-foie-gras-ban-gavage/

Nothing has changed that I can see, since I spoke to Michaela DeSoucey a few years ago. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/foie-gras/

If you want to understand webmentions in WordPress, might this be a good starting point for you? https://boffosocko.com/2017/12/15/threaded-replies-with-webmentions-in-wordpress/

Maybe it's just me, @kewgardens, but I would have expected an article about interesting lettuces with lots of photos to at least tell me the names of the varieties pictured. https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/lettuce-season-kew-kitchen-garden

Henrik Carlsson took the trouble to record a microcast in reply to my Eating Alone episode and raised a completely new reason for wanting to eat alone: because cooking for and eating with picky children can be a bit of a trial. Good luck with future meals.

Just published the latest Eat This Newsletter at https://www.eatthispodcast.com/eat-this-newsletter-104/ and need to test this new Twitter plugin too.

So here goes.

Just upgraded my WithKnown site to the latest master. Slightly hair raising, but excellent help from @mapkyca got me over the hurdles. Only downside, currently, seems to be the plugin that syndicates to Twitter.

I’m being hit by a wave of spam to sign-up forms, rather than comments, and I cannot fathom what’s in it for the spammers. No clue.

I like the idea of a "tryout" tag for new websites that seem interesting enough to subscribe to, so I am promptly starting to do just that.

It worked! Well done. Are you also in the IndieWeb IRC/Slack?

Thanks for the link; will read. @NPRDanCharles had a good piece about the paper too.

The farmers who benefit from Fair Trade don't pass the benefits on to their workers. New paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0311-5 @LB_Naylor first alerted me to this in my episode on Fair Trade https://www.eatthispodcast.com/pushing-good-coffee/

Frustrated attempt to create my first EC2 instance AND connect to it. Launching it with defaults went fine, but connecting kept timing out, and after going through all the troubleshooting it is still timing out. Stopped, for now.