This post, and especially the final paragraph, deserves to be hoisted from my own archive 18 years on.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005140.html
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The three-thousand-year journey of colchicine
Fascinating story of the unintended (?) consequences of drug regulation, though disappointed obviously to see no mention of my own pioneering work. :)
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• Jeremy Cherfas
A Quick Photo Walk in the Snow – Richard's blog
Paradiolia on the streets of Venice
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• Jeremy Cherfas
Paradiolia on the streets of Venice
Winter sunset
A dusting of snow blankets hills in the distance, left over from the snowfall two evenings ago. There are thin light clouds above the hills through which the sky peeks. On the horizon, separating the snowy white hills from the light grey clouds, there is a hint of a pale red,...
@czarbucks wanted to see one of my recent projects, so here it is. A Möbius strip neck thingy, accidentally added a whole twist too many, but it still works and looks OK, at least to me.
Photo Mechanic going end of life on the current version is a major downer. They do, to their credit, offer a one-off fee and a subscription option, but $150 a year for the standard option, which does not search across multiple folders, is a bit steep for me. What do people use?
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Took the plunge and installed first Docker ...
Took the plunge and installed first Docker and then Uptime-Kuma on my resuscitated Pi, and I am both impressed and happy. Tomorrow I will think about how to notify myself if there is a problem. For now, touch wood, no need.
#IndieWeb
🔗 Likes - FeedCity
FeedCity now supports “likes”. Including sending webmentions to supporting sites.
You can now “like” any post within FeedCity.
Resonance
I have been listening to a podcast interview between Ezra Klein and Brian Eno. In it, Eno referenced the concept of the “premature sheen.” I stopped what I was doing, paused the podcast, and started to think about what those words meant.
I wanted to learn more about the conc...
Routines
Over the last few weeks I have been working on rebuilding my morning routine.
I used to be regimented in my morning routine – everything scheduled down to the minute. I then ebbed the opposite way: my routines became unstructured, my mind every morning exerting itself to rem...
Snow
The snow looks like drops of moonlight I thought to myself as the cool light from the street lamps illuminated the falling snow. It’s beautiful. I have never seen anything like it.
Earlier this week I saw light rain fall that looked almost like it was snow – the light reflec...
Important #indieweb lesson in #modular website setup this morning:Keep your DNS provider separate from your CDN separate from your webhost, so you can swap out any one of them as necessary, whether for economic or as it were today, reliability reasons. And make sure those ser...
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• Jeremy Cherfas
Checked into Trattoria Ai Cacciatori
Untitled
📕 Finished reading Art & Fear by David Bayles, Ted Orland ISBN: 9780961454739
I suddenly remembered bluesky exists. oops. get hyped for the zine I organized (that's an order!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Latest episode: A Fresh Look at Domestication
A new book turns the current story of the invention of agriculture on its head. It wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Robert Spengler says the traits of domestication are simply a response to changes in the environment, changes humans promoted , but with no idea of being able to select better crops or livestock. Domestication just happened.
🗓️ The Level Up
The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.
Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for three exciting indie teams!
- FRENEMIES
- RUMSPRINGA (IG: @RumspringaImprov)
- CHIT CHAT (IG: @ChitChatImprov)
I’ll be playing in with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!
Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)
Saturday November 15th, 2025 @ 10:30pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/tickets/60023/
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• Jeremy Cherfas
And that was fine and dandy, except ...
And that was fine and dandy, except for re-using the old 8GHB card, which didn’t let me do anything else. Finding it hard to believe that a 32GB card was only €13, but it was, and so here I am again, starting from scratch.