Jeremy Cherfas

In so many respects, marijuana is a mirror of food, as noted at the mothership www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/mari…

Lazymention sounds really interesting and potentially a welcome release from the Telegraph fandango. I do wonder, though, how it will play with my non-static but heavily cached Grav site.

A late contender for the best thing about #food I have read all year. Michael Lewis’s feature Made in the U.S.D.A. goes inside Trump’s cruel campaign against the U.S.D.A.’s scientists www.vanityfair.com/news/2017…

According to one food writer, “dried chili peppers are grown in the Southwest and dehydrated onion and garlic are grown in California and Oregon” That’s some impressive growing, right there.

Thanks to Daniel Goldsmith for both the shoutout and, even more so, the recommendations. But if Tanis turns out to resemble a recent podcast series about the Polybius Conspiracy in any way I will be well cross.

Good point about the transaction fees – which is why I offer primarily a season ticket for six months of Eat This Podcast, at different levels. Of course I’m also happy to accept one-off donations, but the season ticket is what I’m hoping people will buy.

Carrier argued that gift wrap transforms something impersonal into something personal—ritually turning an anonymous commodity into an idiosyncratic gift. In today’s terms, for example, the iPhone anyone can buy becomes, when wrapped, the iPhone I got for you. Carrier pointed out that this is why homemade gifts, such as a jar of jam, don’t require full wrapping. A simple bow around the top will do.

Entirely by coincidence, I am sure, this morning I once again turned my attention to the possibility of beefing up my raging iMac’s performance buy adding an external SSD as startup disc. Seems a lot more doable than cracking the computer open, and a lot more affordable than a new machine. I’m in the land of cheaper for a little longer yet, so time for more research, but I think I am going to continue down this road.

Patreon’s change of heart is indeed welcome, although I am withholding final judgement until I see exactly how things pan out. In a sense you can of course take your patrons with you, as a download of the basic details, and with all the other tools available I suspect it would not be too difficult to reconstruct a similar experience that might even be better for managing privileged content. I’ve yet to do that myself, but it is in my plans. I’m also having a little trouble with Stripe, which was easy enough to set up, harder to get working efficiently.

Overall, I’m glad to have been goaded into doing something to make it easy for people who don’t want the hassle of signing up for Patreon, perhaps because they only have one person to whom they want to donate.