Jeremy Cherfas

I’ve always used bayonet connection for the kind of lightbulb that does not screw in but is inserted and twisted a little.

One reason I love Rome: some douchebag scraped my car, actually breaking the fixtures for the parking light. Yesterday I took it to the neighbourhood bodyshop (yes, there is one) and it was fixed this morning, plus most of the paint the douchebag had left removed, for €50.

Absolutely wonderful, except that I may now not be able to ride my bike mindlessly at all, so full will it be with physics.Thanks Waxy.

See, this is the kind of thing I’m talking about: “kept me listening despite zero interest in the subject,” said someone about the latest episode of Eat This Podcast, What Price Chicken Wings.

Trying once again to get a grip on my social media silos by taking another look at Monocle, and thinking this time it might stick.

You can say or think oh shut up, what’s the big deal, it’s just progress and it’ll be fine, but there’s more to it than that. What if you couldn’t buy a plain hammer–only an electronic nail gun? You couldn’t buy a kitchen knife, only a Cuisinart? No pencils and pens, only computers?

Never Have I

1. Had a MySpace account
2. Had an AOL email address

So, that’s twice as many as Tim Prebble, where I found the original. But is that twice as good or twice as bad?

@friedrichlongin Another fascinating and informative thread that will presumably be lost if Twitter does eventually implode completely. Where is the backup? Why go to all this trouble only to be beholden to an autocrat’s whim?