2020
On the efficiency of my scythe | Small Farm Future
Another great post from Chris Smaje, and how about those comments?
The reason that you see farmers nowadays with combines and not with scythes is because energy and capital are cheap, labour is dear, and most people don’t work the land. Like it or not, I think all this is going to change in the future.
I had a scythe once. I loved that thing, and the sheer joy of becoming skilled in using it and keeping it sharp.
Right, but fried polenta is another kind ...
Right, but fried polenta is another kind of thing. The unfried stuff depends on the maize from which it is made and the stuff that accompanies it. In my book, a good polenta is great with just olive oil and salt, and from there only gets better.
Pleased, in a nerdy way, that tomorrow's ...
Pleased, in a nerdy way, that tomorrow's podcast episode, in which I chat with a chef and teacher in Aoteora, will go out on a day when we all will have almost the same times for sunrise and sunset.
Baked up nice, too
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Baked up nice, too. Taste test in about four hours.
pesosA friend and bread client gave me a bag of Khorasan flour, so not Kamut, but, with a tacit request, later confirmed, that I baker a loaf
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So, here goes. I fed my 75% wholewheat starter, thinking this would be whole too. It isn’t, but that’s ok. Kneads up oK, with a nice pale yellow cast. Seems a bit weak though, even though the packet said 14% protein. Obviously not that great for gluten. We shall see.
#khorasan #sourdough">
A friend and bread client gave me a bag of Khorramshahr flour, so not Kamut, but, with a tacit request, later confirmed, that I baker a loaf.
So, here goes. I fed my 75% wholewheat starter, thinking this would be whole too. It isn’t, but that’s ok. Kneads up oK, with a nice pale yellow cast. Seems a bit weak though, even though the packet said 14% protein. Obviously not that great for gluten. We shall see.
Belated post, for @kenalbala
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Belated post, for @kenalbala
pesosThank you for wearing a mask on the 75 bus at 17:59
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Thank you for wearing a mask on the 75 bus at 17:59
pesosTroubleshooting blues
It can be so hard to debug IndieWeb problems when they arise in Known. For now, this should be a , because Chris Aldrich reported a problem. But even if this works, I may need to go outside this installation to test properly. Or, perhaps, try webmention.rocks.
Test reply because @chrisaldrich was getting an ...
Test reply because @chrisaldrich was getting an error. Might be OK with reply but not webmention, so will test that next.
New edition of Eat This Newsletter up ...
New edition of Eat This Newsletter up at https://
My (temporary) new best friend.
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My (temporary) new best friend.
pesosOne of the stranger aspects of RSS ...
One of the stranger aspects of RSS feeds is when a long dormant site springs back into life. Usually, I'm glad. This time, I'm not sure what to make of the fact that Freakonomicsbook.com is now in the hands of someone else.
How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations | Chartable
Wow! Great read from Lisa Charlotte Rost on colours in visualisations. I have a lot of work to do ...
@fourierfiend The simplest syndication tool in many ...
@fourierfiend The simplest syndication tool in many respects is Brid.gy which you can hook up to your site. There are also plugins for some CMS like WP and Drupal and the one I’m using, Known.
PhD student reporting what it's like to use a Zettelkasten for the first time with my classes — Zettelkasten Forum
What this really needs, for me, is a largish piece of paper tucked into the physical book, which I have done, in the past. The insight is to procss those notes later in the day.
Rotten cloud bank obscuring the moment of truth.
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Maybe there is still time for a breakthrough.">
Rotten cloud bank obscuring the moment of truth.
Maybe there is still time for a breakthrough.
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