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If you go for a run and forget your tracking device, did you even go?
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20260903-W-C171SL
* On foot
* 55.9376, -3.2137
* 03 September 2026
* 423.86 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.937583&mlon=-3.213731#map=14/55.93758/-3.21373&layers=H
Always nice after a day of travelling to find a rabbit within easy walking distance.
We can pickle it. But will we want to?
Ken Albala thinks maybe not.
”This next generation is really going to not care much about pickles, or they’re going to like pickles that are bought in the store and made industrially and really not care about the strange, weird local thing that comes from the other corner of the earth. I think that’s going to fade.”
We talked about fermentation around the world and the past and future of real pickles.
Today is the third anniversary of my joining Mastodon. I continue to enjoy it and all of you.
Deconstructed panzanella with ricotta for lunch.
RE: https://glammr.us/@flickrfdn/117168545360179809
My entry for Q8 tomorrow. #bikenite
That’s it IG. Even my Following choice is now infested with ads. I am not following them. You have betrayed my trust for the last time.
”I’ve been quietly seething for months now about the dumb emails I get from people wailing about my podcast’s invisibility on YouTube. Increasingly urgent, promises that this is the last time, more in sorrow than in anger, blah, blah, blah. ... Why stop seething quietly now?”
https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/no-i-do-not-want-to-be-on-yt
https://social.ewenbell.com/notice/B9VkdcImjwAsdHnC6q prompted me to write a little something about my own disenchantment.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/117126072323898265
I have questions.
In the latest Eat This Newsletter, a couple of dreamy prescriptions for a better food world, as well as a clear-eyed view on what’s up with wheat prices. And if all that is too bitter, how the USA became sweet on yoghurt.
“As late as 1972, a Wall Street Journal article ... claimed that “most people really dislike yogurt—at least at first.” ... “most people” here refers to white, middle-class Americans.
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20260814-W-AY68OD
* On foot
* 41.8877, 12.4554
* 14 August 2026
* 424.10 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.8877&mlon=12.4554#map=14/41.88772/12.45542&layers=H
Too hot to be out strolling just to get somewhere random, but when the algorithm delivers a rabbit just off the path of my customary morning jog, I was bound to bag it.
RE: https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/117080947709426595
Also good if you're in Europe and can manage mornings.
In the latest Eat This Newsletter, I share a bad case of pessimism. Or is it realism? But there are also lotus eaters, a history of biryani, and a love letter to Italy's August traditions.
I should add, the lack of traffic on the roads and free availability of parking places tempt me to go joyriding to dispel the pessimism.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-312-gloomy/
Almost 20 years on, my compadre Luigi has refreshed a page that answers the multilayered question What is Agrobiodiversity?
In the course of thinking about macro-photography I discovered a useful possible alternative, at least for now.
Lovely piece on the game of Diplomacy, which I haven’t thought about for more than 50 years.
https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/
Glad I don't depend on Airtable.
Do ants eat feathers? I mean, protein, right? This crow feather was whole when I noted it by the entrance to an ants' nest on Monday. Today it seems half eaten, although it has barely moved since Monday. Could the ants have taken it apart and down into their nest?
Latest Eat This Newsletter battles through the heat to bring you cyclospora, doubts about the wisdom of medieval food systems, and the Ur-scapegoat in Iran's rainmaker.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-311-scrambled/
This is exciting. Just uncovered my old Kodak Zi8, bought January 2010 and not used since mid 2011. Charging it up now and hoping to make use of it. I wonder if there are any mods.
https://jeremycherfas.micro.blog/uploads/2026/9101c1b153cd4c3b995dc8097ca94bed.jpg
“If I had done what I originally intended, I could have been building a slum tenement occupied by ruthless assassins waiting only for their next victim.”
TIL follicetum, and although I already knew about prickles, thorns and spines, I had my memory of them refreshed, thanks to the Botanists in the Kitchen.
This is important. A false positive is by no means the same as a negative, although as Kaiser Fung explains, that does require a bit of (slow) thinking.
Another investigation reveals just how desperate the food industry is to avoid any kind of regulation or even advice that might affect sales. Cryptospora cases continue to explode despite being “under control”. Things are quite a lot better in Europe, which is also being told to do more for pulses and beans.
Waves of interest in nutrition and rising interest in the warm Middle ages round out this week’s Eat This Newsletter
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-310-focussed/
I got phished, because I failed to see the warning signs and ignored the one I did notice. But I do have questions. Did the scummers actually know that I was expecting a delivery, or was I just extra-unlucky?
https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/phished-again
Opens Ivory. 192 unread. Blimey, something awful must have happened. Oh no, it is just someone getting a musical education. And it is a delight.
A great and unexpected treat. Staying at friends, not so old New Yorkers. And in one of them, volume six of personal histories by John McPhee, “95 at this writing”. Absolutely my favourite writer of non-fiction, and these brief glimpses are simply wonderful.
"Not ‘western civ. doesn’t exist’ nor ‘western civ. is bad’. Rather, “western civilization is real & good, captured in writing & song and we are killing it with our violence, cruelty and greed, we have become the barbarians at our own gates.”"
Bret Deveraux, via Brad DeLong, but not going to link to his X https://acoup.blog/author/aimedtact/