Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: The Oldest Road: The Ridgeway by Fay Godwin and JRL Anderson, ISBN: 9780905483528

                     #Non-fiction

I find it curious that Strava offers handcycle ride but not Nordic walking. The new challenge of a 5 km “March” is my standard Nordic walk, and there isn’t actually an activity called March either.

I had a narrow, but surely temporary, escape yesterday, after my computer greeted me with this on Monday. Apparently the parts are no long made, but it recovered and I shall keep using it till it dies. 

Smart piece, pointing out not only the strengths of Clive James as a cultural critic, but also his vision of what the entails.I find it hard to believe that some university department of media studies, or whatever, isn’t falling over itself to take over James' site and give it the care he obviously wanted to give it.

Tucked in behind the grandiose arch is one of the quainter stations of Rome. Many of the stations on the line are request stops. You have to ask the driver to stop. 

If it weren’t for the fact that I love the actual camera (Nex-6) to bits, Sony’s software for camera and iPhone would make me hurl it against the wall. Seriously, I put up with it because I have to, and I wish I didn’t.

Finished reading: The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

The scale doesn’t lie. The most dough I’d ever made. 

Today I learned I have been utterly underusing Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource app. For that I have to thank Brett Terpstra’s post Enhanced music listening on macOS.I’m sure it is just a coincidence that we have the exact same speakers. 

I’m not opposed to modern art

How cool is this? Lego kit for Friends, just what I needed for today’s podcast. 

I’m not sure I actually read about any biggest mistake, apart from maybe not being united, in the immensely parochial piece. But I can’t disagree with this:Podcasting didn’t start in control of the monied few and gradually become democratized. Podcasting started as a democracy, and now faces the incursion of the monied few.And while I don’t mind about the monied few taking over (well, not too much) I do mind that they are even called podcasts. They really are radio on demand, and we storied few shouldn’t be judged by the same standards.