A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
🐢 Animal #166 🦬
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
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🔥 10 | Avg. Guesses: 7.7
https://metazooa.com
🐅 Animal #165 🐬
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩
🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 7.6
https://metazooa.com
🐠 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
https://metazooa.com
🐟 Animal #162 🐊
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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🔥 6 | Avg. Guesses: 7.3
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Total guesswork.
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Eat This Newsletter 227: We have a winner!
A round-up of the Xmas Quiz. There was one question that stumped everybody, and two others that only one person answered correctly.
The quiz is still available, and if you enter, you will see the correct answers once you have finished.
🦏 Animal #161 🦬
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 8.2
https://metazooa.com
🕊️ Animal #160 🐈
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 7.6
https://metazooa.com
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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Jeremy Cherfaspublished this
@odd first guess was pure luck, but it meant there was only one option for the second.
, Jan 05 2024 on micro.blog
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
https://metazooa.com
🦘 Animal #154 🦙
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5
https://metazooa.com
🐡 Animal #153 🐀
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 12
https://metazooa.com
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
https://metazooa.com
#metazooa
Jeremy Cherfaspublished this
@jeremycherfas Oh, well, now, that was fun!! I'm going to make this a daily, morning visit. Thanks so much for sharing!
, Dec 29 2023 on micro.blog
@Denny Glad you enjoyed it. I sometimes find the range of acceptable guesses odd, but that passes. And it is only a game.
, Dec 29 2023 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I tried it, but it was hard. Google Translate didn’t translate well enough for me to drill down as I would like.
, Dec 29 2023 on micro.blog
@odd I can imagine it would be hard under those circumstances.
, Dec 29 2023 on micro.blog
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
https://metazooa.com
#metazooa
What a coincidence. In 2023, I didn't read the exact same 20 books that Austin Kleon didn't read.
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rabbit_quest geohashing 20231224-B-AYG8O8.
A new departure, after 10 years of Eat This Podcast, a Xmas quiz. With prizes.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/2023-quiz/
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rabbit_quest geohashing 20231219-W-AY68OD.
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.
While people are understandably impressed by the murmurations of starling flocks, I am reminded of a brief clip of dunlin doing likewise, with one great advantage over starlings: their white undersides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZVbCC-gpxI
Rats! Looks like I need a new uninterruptible power supply, suitable for a Raspberry Pi and an iMac. Anyone got any recommendations?
Does anyone know what is happening with vanilla prices? I see reports of steep rises, precipitous falls and boring plateaux, and I am not equipped to sift out any kind of overview.
I am really grateful that I can follow people who post calm and reflective pieces despite being in the middle of frantic turmoil.
I asked a colleague for evidence that an intervention was associated with changes in behaviour.
We don’t know. It’s more about awareness.
M’kay.
Awareness may be a precursor of behavioural change, but on its own it offers me nothing of value.
"You could literally take a hungry climate refugee and put them in the middle of a field of food, and they’d still starve to death." Interesting take, with which I fully agree. I wonder how the writer might feel about Chris Smaje's Small Farm Future?
And it's out, the latest issue of Eat This Newsletter https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/linked/
A slew of stories from around the web, each of them connected to at least one of the others because that's the way of the food and agriculture system.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/linked/
Just finished the draft of the latest Eat This Newsletter, which goes out tomorrow at around 13:00 CEST.
One thing I was especially grateful for was @mastoreaderio@mastodon.social from @badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place
Decided to take up Datasette again to look at Activity data in Health.app. Turns out that the Health export does not include distance for several workouts, even though I can see distance in both Health and Fitness. No idea why this is. Anyone have a clue?
Jeremy Cherfaspublished this
I was wrong about Healthkit not exporting distance data. The data are there with distance in a cycling workout recorded as km between records, which are 1 or 2 seconds apart. The numbers are there, obscured by being of the order of 0.007 km. Solved at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/transport-summary-q3-2023
The photo challenge was at micro.blog which is also federated. I post on my own site, which feeds to micro.blog via RSS. There is a different sort of challenge for October, called Inktober, for drawings, but I don't do that.
Of course InternationalCoffeeOutside Day and Coffeeneuring are full of flim-flam, but still, might be fun to attempt one or both, even though I will probably be on my own throughout.
https://coffeeoutside.ridewithgps.com/
https://chasingmailboxes.com/2023/09/24/coffeeneuring-challenge-2023-lucky-13/
I wish there were a way to really edit geojson online. I know there are sites where you can tweak a linestring, add a marker and other little bits. I'd love to be able to colour segments of the linestring differently, add markers with popups, etc. Does such a thing exist?
Sometimes a big story seems to have been everywhere I look, and I wonder whether it is worth including in my newsletter. So I ask people not quite as nerdy as me, and they say “what big story?”, which is why I do include it.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/mischief/
Always feels good to finish tomorrow's Eat This Newsletter a little early. Sign up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/ if you would like my take on nice rice, Big Food, gin, tomatoes and brassicas.
@jeremycherfas That’s extremely good, or there was some luck involved.
odd, Jan 05 2024 on micro.blog