Jeremy Cherfas

20/25 on Adactio’s Font or Food? quiz. Not too shabby.

Hear me, O @tavolamed, As a foolish person, who knows not my ward, I await the set form of words with which Curio Maximus will proclaim the time for holding the #Fornacalia, so that I may celebrate on the last day to which it can be postponed.

“I have not seen the book and read the whole book. I read the reviews.” The only item on the meeting’s agenda was what to do about Maus, and this board member had not bothered to glance at it.

Trying to use OCR in iOS is really tricky unless you can mask off the bits of the page you really don’t want. Unless I am failing to find a better selection tool. Maybe crop first?

Sums up the arguments pretty well, but then, I do agree completely.

Agreed, kefir is a total doddle (though I don’t do any of the variations that other people do). I do feel bad when I don’t have anyone to give surplus grains to. Although yoghurt is more of a faff, it isn’t that difficult, especially with a good thermometer and a vacuum flask.

If mussels are “the oyster of the poor,” what were they when oysters were the oysters of the poor?

Perhaps I’m old fashioned (no perhaps about it) but I am having a hard time seeing the value (to me) of Research Rabbit. As Ton says, it would just feed my inner collector.

It may be Monday, it may even be Veganuary, but Eat This Newsletter happens not to be meatless today.

In this issue, nourishment from @JLewisStempel, @JSTOR_Daily, @ModFarm and @OurWorldInData.

Read it at buttondown.email/jeremyche…

Ah, serendipity. To read, almost one after the other, David Sparks and Ben Werdmüller saying very similar things about the purpose of work. David had a great Walt Disney quote: “We don’t make movies to make money. We make money to make more movies.”

A little late with the first Eat This Newsletter of the New Year, but my boss says that’s OK.

Read it at buttondown.email/jeremyche… for thoughts on FOPLs, ag and food policy in the US and the UK, potato bread etc

Happy Birthday Ben. Such an interesting list. On a quick read, some of those things are already here (though perhaps not polished enough), some of them will never be here, and some of them ought to be here already. Thought-provoking.

Maybe you really want to build your own, but if not, Newsblur is an RSS reader has an excellent ability to include email newsletters.

When a human-powered transcript flows seamlessly from “tide disputes” to “Thai disputes” without once taking on board that “tides are these ecclesiastical taxes …”.