* On foot
* 41.8814, 12.4388
* 16 May 2025
* 427.73 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Another one a nice walk away in the other part of the local park. Had to walk through some lovely long grass to get there.
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Eat This Newsletter 270
Eggflation excuses, the sad saga of the British sliced loaf, what to grow in a nuclear winter, hot dance food science PhD, and a sober accounting of the US's food-related losses.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-270-concentrated-profits/
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* On foot
* 41.8814, 12.4388
* 16 May 2025
* 427.73 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Another one a nice walk away in the other part of the local park. Had to walk through some lovely long grass to get there.
Top Album Artists from last.fm for week ending 15 May
1 Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos 13
2 The Be Good Tanyas 12
3 M83 11
4 James Blackshaw 9
5 The Dave Brubeck Quartet 7
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* On foot
* 41.884599, 12.448835
* 5 May 2025
* 427.68 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
It’s been a while, in more ways than one. Here’s a quest from 10 days ago.
Top artists last week.
1. Billie Holiday 16
2. John Hiatt 11
3. Pat Metheny 11
4. Warren Zevon 11
5. Madredeus 10
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Direct from Polignano a Mare, Flavia Giordano's love letter to Puglia's unique foods and ingredients, including some remarkable biodiversity. Melons eaten unripe, colourful carrots, and sporchia, a broomrape parasitic on broad beans.
Top Album Artists last week
1. Willie Nelson 14
2. Cowboy Junkies 12
3. Levon Helm 12
4. Oscar Peterson 11
5. John Coltrane 7
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“Salt is a powerful thing. It ensures well-being, it cures, it pleases guests, and it attracts males. And it was brought from a mystical garden. To teach girls how to manage this power must have been an ongoing challenge for the elders.”
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TIL about the -c flag in rsync, which skips files based on checksum. The big benefit to me is that it preserves modification times, making it easier to find what I’m looking for. They say it takes more processor time; I don’t care. Hope there are no gotchas.
Got to be a win all round.