Jeremy Cherfas

A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.

I just published Eat This Newsletter 127: Ingenious solutions.

Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-127-ingenious-solutions/ and, if you like, consider subscribing.

Very happy with the service from @widefitshoes A pair of shoes were not up to scratch -- not their fault at all -- and they agreed to send out a replacement with no argument. That is how it should be. If you need wider fittings, I highly recommend, and their foot-measuring chart makes it easy.

So happy to see Helen Rosner @hels in The New Yorker do a much better job on rotten apples than I managed. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/how-apples-go-bad

Hey @uber_support When are you going to do something about the people in Rome who park bikes where no one can find them? walked past four ghost bikes before I found one that was actually where it was supposed to be.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 04 June 2020

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Jun 04 2020 on twitter.com

Hi, thank you for letting us know. As announced last month, Lime has acquired JUMP’s business operations and hardware. While the deal has not closed in Europe yet, we have moved the majority of bikes to our warehouses in preparation for the handover of operations to Lime.

Uber Support, Jun 16 2020 on twitter.com

Also on: @EatPodcast

OK, pure confirmation bias, but I finally read something that expands and provides details on the chaotic thoughts swirling in my brain about why Joe Rogan's Spotify deal need not be the end. The open podcast ecosystem is dying — here’s how to save it https://divinations.substack.com/p/the-open-podcast-ecosystem-is-dying

2020-05-09

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I'm not saying I agree with absolutely everything in these two articles, but The Economist has an Editorial and a Briefing on what it calls "the global food supply chain" and "the world's food system". They make for interesting reading.

Spoiler: The Economist doesn't think it's broken.

"Blaming the internet for your gullibility is like blaming a screwdriver for your neurological defects."

No idea where I found this, but I liked it enough to write it down. If you know the origin, please let me know.

Jeremy Cherfaspublished this 05 May 2020

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@jeremycherfas is the screwdriver wedged in the hippocampus?

cn, May 05 2020 on micro.blog

@cn it certainly can be.

jeremycherfas, May 05 2020 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas fortunately we are physically distanced…

cn, May 05 2020 on micro.blog

@cn You’re not suggesting your screwdriver and my hippocampus, I hope.

jeremycherfas, May 05 2020 on micro.blog

@jeremycherfas I was worried about mine 🧠🙃

cn, May 05 2020 on micro.blog

@cn No worries.

jeremycherfas, May 05 2020 on micro.blog

I am amazed and saddened by the number of beginner bakers I see in forums saying that their bread tasted fantastic but didn't rise enough, or didn't have giant holes, or didn't a shiny crust, or whatever.

Just eat it.

Bread porn too has a lot to answer for.

It is extremely regrettable and demoralising that robbers and the élite agree on just one thing-- living in hiding.

Kierkegaard quoted in Rebecca Solnit's Wanderlust p256

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And what you learned yesterday, I learn today. Thanks!