A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
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* On bus
* 41.889492, 12.491804
* 26 December 2024
* 425.45 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
My first drive-by rabbit. And I only noticed it once I was on the bus and looking distractedly at my phone. Probably doesn't count in the greater scheme of things, but what the heck.
Latest episode considers possibly the original pintxo. A plump Cantabrian anchovy, a spicy pickled guindilla pepper, and a juicy green olive, skewered on a toothpick. It's invention is contested, but not its name, nor the inspiration for that name: Gilda.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/gilda/
Under Robin Sloan's reading, I fail to see any distinction between cults and tribes.
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* On foot
* 41.876189, 12.460472
* 19 December 2024
* 425.37 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
I wanted to bag this rabbit because the house in the photo was derelict for years and falling apart because, we were told, the siblings who inherited it couldn't agree what to do with it. No idea how that was resolved, but it looks great now.
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https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-258-gifted/
Back when I started podcasting, in 2013, it seemed sensible to include a page telling people that they could subscribe, and how. Is that still needed today? Does “wherever you get your podcasts” really cover it, or should I add links for all the apps and services?
Currently reading: The Amateur: The pleasures of doing what you love by Andy Merrifield, ISBN: 9781786631060
#Non-fiction
This is madness. I have 653 different tags on my ~4000 bookmarks in linkding. Fully 267 of them have a single entry. Clearly I urgently need to procrastinate by cleaning everything up.
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* On foot
* 41.882431, 12.455121
* 26 November 2024
* 424.57 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Just across the road from my barber, whom I had planned to visit in any case.
Bennett's Law says that as poor people have more money they shift from coarse grains to fine and then to animal proteins. But it isn't really a law, more a regular occurrence. Today, the first empirical test of Bennett’s Law, with researcher Marc Bellemare.
https://eatthispodcast.com/bennetts-law
@jeremycherfas Truly, I do not understand MB's truncation. The original for this post clocks in at 298 characters, I thought the limit was 300. This "feature" has caught me before. What is a reliable upper limit to avoid truncation?
Web user, Nov 25 2024 on micro.blog