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Just put the finishing touches to tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter, and sharing it early here because it involves mastodons and anachronistic fruit.

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After a discussion with Joel and James, the latter had a bright idea. Guess what? Yet another fun blogging questions challenge. This one, as the title suggests, is about food.
If y...

Yesterday I asked three friends a variation of the following question: Is there a website that makes you pause like a piece of architecture? One person provided an answer to the question that was a hypothetical design: a website where, when you scrolled down, you would be ...

The night-given crystalline coating on the red leaf shimmers with the burgeoning light of day. As I take a step forward, the light hits the ice crystals in a different way. We had our first frost last night. I looked up to see an expansive winter-blue sky, with faint lavend...

I got kinda sorta nerd-sniped into joining the weeknote throng. So here goes.

https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/the-weeks-links-01

This is an experiment. At an online Homebrew Website Club on Wednesday talk turned to week notes, the ones we liked, why we liked them, and so on. Some are mostly personal reflections, others are mostly links, and naturally some are a mixture of both. The ones I like tend to...

Today in rolling my eyes while reading:

🙄 “He had a PhD in corporate courage development”

Pink flowers, flame red trees. Yellows and greens. Layers of colour, worthy of being a Fresco (or is Nature so beautiful that a Fresco would limit its expression?). Autumn is especially pretty today. Colour around every corner. A faint cold chill caresses my hands. The colours of the trees warm me up.

I am enjoying the music and the birdsong and the colours. What makes Nature beautiful is not an individual leaf or tree but the collective of all, and the forces that bind all together. We are in constant dialogue with Nature — we weave past and through and with its forces. It’s nice to hear the voices of people — the joy of talking while waiting; of the presence of others.

Writing stories. Sharing things that make me smile. Reading knowledge people have shared openly. Communities that organise knowledge. Project Gutenberg. New music by my favourite artists. Acoustic songs. The spark of “I should learn this on the piano!”. All the people who make events happen. (related) Attending events where I learn something new. Seeing people’s curiosity shine through. Learning about art. Having my mind opened by art. Discovering a new personal website that someone has lovingly crafted. Bookshops. Talking with friends. Dreaming. Sitting with a new idea.

There is maybe a fun blogging challenge in writing about our favourite snacks from where we live... After a discussion with Joel and Zachary, I started writing a few questions about food to which I’d love to hear others’ answers. This is in the same vein as the “Bear Blog Q...

It being a perfect autumnal morning, with warm sunshine, blue skies, and just a touch of freshness in the air, we took ourselves off to the Terme di Caracalla for a Cultural Quickie®. The primary purpose was an exhibit of photos by Frank Horvat but the ruins of the baths are themselves always worth a visit.

https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/frank-horvat-at-the-terme-di-caracalla

#photography #archaeology

What made you happy today? asks Catch a Bird. I love this question, and the website. For the last five minutes or so, I have been both answering the aforementioned question, and trying my best to make some people smile. Here are a selection of my answers to the question:
Trying 100% dark chocolate for the first time. Playing the guitar. Singing my heart out. The joy of autumn. Have a wonderful day :) Taylor Swift! Seeing two cats while wandering the neighbourhood. You’re an amazing human :)
I love technology that can highlight the best of us; technology that brings us together.

To you, dear reader, I hope you have a wonderful day.

See also: Frances’ Sharing good things online.

It being a perfect autumnal morning, with warm sunshine, blue skies, and just a touch of freshness in the air, we took ourselves off to the Terme di Caracalla for a Cultural Quickie®. The primary purpose was an exhibit of photos by Frank Horvat but the ruins of the baths are...

#coffeeneuring2026 No. 1 16.3km round-trip The Coffeeneuring Challenge 2026 kicked off a few days ago, and after dithering last year, this year I’m resolved to give it a go. So, between now and 25 November eight rides to seven (or eight) beverage-serving locations, no more t...

So, coffeeneuring, eh? Made a start.

https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/cafè-du-parc

#coffeeneuring2026

Rain may exist, but so too do clear skies, and the possibility for something to start serendipitously, like a raindrop falling from a sky once dry or a wave from a friend you never expected to see. (In Romantics, VI) I wave with words. I weave and paint with words -- with p...

What does the concrete path mean to me? In the mirrored ground I see many meanings. Here is a place I have stopped to think. Here is a place over which I have idly walked on my way to somewhere familiar or somewhere new. Here is a vein of the city, made by all those who wal...

Further to the idea that the colonist settlers of New England allowed their prejudices to blind them to reality, I offer their misidentification of domesticated dogs as wild wolves.

https://daily.jstor.org/why-english-colonists-called-indigenous-dogs-wolves/

#podcast #wampanoag

I genuinely enjoyed being part of Head in the Cloud by mittwald this year. Now they released the video of my talk (it’s in German, sorry), which was titled “Weniger Slides. Mehr Austausch.” (something like “Fewer slides. More interaction.”).

Next to this, I gave a couple of interviews. One of them dealt with the how people these days see events and what is important for them. I proposed that it could work to run an event with even fewer talks than at beyond tellerrand, but more tome to chat and have conversations.

Video by mittwald. As said: I had a lovely time in Espelkamp and heard many other people say the same. The vibe, the people, everything fit very well … and the weather did also ;)

I will be back.

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Rain falling from the sky, I looked downward to the concrete path. The concrete became a solid, watery mirror, reflecting back thoughts and questions. How can I romanticise while staying grounded? I appreciate the rain: falling water after a dry season. When something is go...