* On foot
* 41.87050, 12.45489
* Monday 12 February, 2024
* 423.19 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Right in the middle of the tram tracks.
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
2024-02-12
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240212-W-AY68O8
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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/
🐈 Animal #196 🐻
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
🟥🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
2024-02-11
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240211-W-AY68O8
1 min read
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240211-W-AY68O8
* On foot
* 41.88118, 12.44558
* Sunday 12 February, 2024
* 423.15 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
🐯 Animal #194 🫎
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟥🟥🟥🟧🟩
🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9
https://metazooa.com
2024-02-09
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240209-W-AY68O8
1 min read
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240209-W-AY68O8
* On foot
* 41.88226, 12.43950
* Friday 9 February, 2024
* 423.09 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
🦕 Animal #193 🦭
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟥🟥🟧🟧🟩
🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
🐹 Animal #192 🐲
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
🟥🟥🟨🟩🟩🟩
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
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!
🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟨🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
I'm jealous of how apparently easy it is to have sidenotes with this Hugo theme.
2024-02-06
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240206-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On bicycle
* 41.863416, 12.457319
* Tuesday 6 February, 2024
* 422.96 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
2024-02-05
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240205-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.885237, 12.457542
* Monday 5 February, 2024
* 422.92 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
🦘 Animal #189 🦃
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
2024-02-03
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240203-W-AY68O8
1 min read
- On foot
- 41.875478, 12.461943
- Saturday 3 February, 2024
- 422.85 ppm CO2
- [OpenStreetMap]()
Too busy to post on the day
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 🐾
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
🟧🟧🟨🟨🟧🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
That took some doing.
🐱 Animal #186 🐡
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟧🟨🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8
https://metazooa.com
Absolutely the worst one yet. Completely meaningless.
🦇 Animal #184 🦖
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
🟥🟨🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9
https://metazooa.com
2024-01-30
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240130-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.890238, 12.480799
* Tuesday 30 January, 2024
* 422.75 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Amazing that this quest was in the middle of the road right by one of our most-used bus stops.
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 🐔
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟥🟨🟨🟩🟩
🔥 11 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
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 🦢
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
🟥🟥🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 10 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
Got off to a bad start.
🐛 Animal #180 🐱
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
2024-01-26
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240126-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.894903, 12.463351
* Friday 26January, 2024
* 422.6 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Longer write-up on the mothership.
🦋 Animal #179 🐩
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
🟥🟧🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩
🔥 8 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
Unable to login to Monocle
1 min read
Monocle would not allow me to login using this site, saying there was no microsub endpoint. This was because in upgrading Known, I had forgotten that I had added the link to microsub before. I had also forgotten which of the hundreds of template files I had to edit in order to do that. In the end I found it with a brute-force search for all files ending in `.tpl.php` The file in question lives at `./IdnoPlugins/IndiePub/templates/default/indiepub/shell/head.tpl.php`.
Having found the correct file to edit, the rest was straightforward thanks to [excellent instructions.
🐇 Animal #178 🦂
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 7 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
Repetition!
2024-01-25
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240125-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On bicycle
* 41.871087, 12.44482
* Thursday 25 January, 2024
* 422.58 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Had to go out for fresh coffee, so why not?
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!
🟥🟥🟥🟨🟩
🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2
https://metazooa.com
🐈 Animal #176 🦓
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
🟥🟥🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4
https://metazooa.com
Bad common name, again.
2024-01-22
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240122-W-AYB80D
1 min read
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240122-W-AYB80D
* On foot
* 41.930987, 12.469606
* Monday 22 January, 2024
* 422.53 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap]()
A little detour before catching a bus home.
🐾 Animal #175 🦩
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟧🟧🟧🟨🟩
🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://metazooa.com
2024-01-21
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240121-W-AY680D
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.877312, 12.450351
* Sunday 21 January, 2024
* 422.51 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap]()
🐝 Animal #174 🦭
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7.4
https://metazooa.com
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!
🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://metazooa.com
Wow! That was a quick refresher course.
2024-01-19
rabbit_quest geohashing 20240119-W-AY680D
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.884197, 12.466269
* Friday 19 January, 2024
* 422.49 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Close to home, and still off my usual beaten track.
🐠 Animal #172 🐗
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
🟧🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://metazooa.com
2024-01-18
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240118-W-AY680D
1 min read
* On bicycle
* 41.85935, 12.483711
* Thursday 18 January 2024
* 422.47 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
I was out on the bicycle running errands, so it was an extra delight to bag a rabbit-quest.
🐂 Animal #170 🐈
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 14 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
https://metazooa.com
Had to ask for a hint.
Jeremy Cherfaspublished this
@jeremycherfas Seems broken today, Friday 1-19. The site works but there seems to be no solution. The hint option isn't working for me either. Weird.
, Jan 19 2024 on micro.blog
@Denny Maybe a temporary glitch? Just worked for me, though I realise now I broke my streak yesterday
, Jan 19 2024 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas Lol, maybe I'm just missing it. I've been through the alphabet/choice dropdowns 5 times... I've got like 9 guesses left and I'm not seeing any more choices in the subfamily. lol, nothing even close. I'm about ready to just pick anything so that I can just see the answer! I think the hint option is not working because I'm in the subfamily and there's no way to provide any further hint.
Sorry about your streak. 😬
, Jan 19 2024 on micro.blog
@Denny It isn't obvious, but if you're seeing the same photo I did in the sub-family, that's it. You can give me three guesses next time.
, Jan 19 2024 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas Yeah, I just missed it. I'm actually suprised I didn't catch it as an animal I was clueless about. The name should have cought my attention and it didn't. Oh well, my 18 days streak has come to an end!! But on the upside, I learned a new critter! Love this game.
, Jan 19 2024 on micro.blog
@Denny I love it too, although I am sometimes frustrated when a species I want to choose is not in the drop-down. Or the common name is US rather than UK. Looking at you, pillbug. Which I knew, but still.
, Jan 19 2024 on micro.blog
🦒 Animal #169 🕊️
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟥🟥🟨🟧🟩
🔥 13 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
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!
🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 12 | Avg. Guesses: 7.2
https://metazooa.com
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!
🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 11 | Avg. Guesses: 7.5
https://metazooa.com
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.
Jeremy Cherfas, Feb 08 2024 on stream.jeremycherfas.net