2019-03-05
There is order in the universe. I know, because on the very day that I finally knuckled down and wrote a pathetic little spreadsheet to do some bread calculations for me, the Gods of Serendipity put Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL in one of my RSS feeds, and my gob is smacked.
Deep text: a catastrophic threat to the bullshit economy?
Interesting (and scary) counter-trend thought, that deep text could make dull kinds of writing easier and better. I’d be out of a job.h/t Chris Aldrich
Something Like a Scent — Ridgeline issue 009
Might be odd to bookmark a newsletter, but why not. And “little lexical tchotchkes from the past” – even though it is in something Craig Mod quotes – is too good to pass up.
Latest episode: We need to talk about meat. Not arguing pro or con here, just trying to understand why it is that meat holds such a central place in discussions of a "good" diet -- in all senses. With Francesco Buscemi, cultural historian of meat.
Too busy tidying in the terrace to remember to take photos, so here’s that orchid again. Current score: 11
"Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas"
I do still prefer folding my T-shirts the way Marie Kondo suggests.PESOS from Reading.am.
The tragedy of Brexit: not enough Pringles
Keep calm and snack on.
My bread day is done, and there are seven more inside.
22 Brilliant at The Basics - Nicholas Bate
- Make your own coffee. It’s cheaper, it’s better and it’s therapeutic.4. Make your own bread. See 3, except it’s not cheaper.Depends how you measure cost, obviouslyh/t Matthew Lang