Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot by Peter Hertzmann, ISBN: 9781909248632

                     #non-fiction
                     #food
                     #cooking

All of the above.

Using Omnibear to reply to this post, as requested.

I’m told that it is not difficult to create a Shortcut that will effectively publish to your site via Micropub, but I don’t do that myself.

Preparedness pays – at least for the Irish PM.

TIL about Chewbacca Mask Lady, in the context of a New Yorker article about the measles outbreaks. Life is interesting.

Brexit means Brexit — that is one of the dumbest statements that has ever been uttered by a head of state. And I’m aware that there are thousands of tweets one could compare it with. I mean, it’s simultaneously meaningless and wrong.”

I’ve just had occasion to remember what a great thing PopClip pilotmoon.com/popclip/ is. If I could trigger when I have selected text from the keyboard I would be deliriously happy.

OH as two young American women look at travel brochures: I’ll do Africa some other time.

I don’t agree with Roger Scruton on much, but I do agree with him that limiting social dance to clubs and EDM festivals where everyone is drunk or high is not good for us. Scruton’s solution is to yearn for the glory days of eighteenth century Europe. My solution is to look to our friends from the African diaspora, whose social norms around music and dance are very different from those of white people, and in a lot of ways, more grown up.Very well said; one the other hand, there is always Irish, Scottish and English “folk dancing” and its many derivatives, which are so much fun and which I could do, more and more often.

Extreme Economies by Richard Davies, as reviewed by Diane Coyle, does sound like a book I would enjoy reading.

Just been through the annual ritual of replacing the batteries in my Garmin Vivofit, which is nice, but didn’t do anything for the broken display segment. Still, I can live with it.