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?

And there I was, foolishly thinking that somehow a weather Station had blocked Chuck’s work that had been in progress.

And having spent a happy couple of hours tinkering with occasional bits of success, I’m giving up again.

My conclusion now is that WithKnown actually does a lot of the heavy lifting itself, with reverse geolookups and so forth. Maybe try something a lot simpler, and send only lat-long

Calculating the signature not as easy as it seemed originally

At home, thinking about a location shortcut for WithKnown, and starting with the easy stuff.

There has to be a better music library manager and player for OSX than Apple’s Music app, but which one? Your recommendations, please. Please!

States and civilizations have collapsed many times in the past. But we’re in an unprecedented situation globally today, with such a vast population so reliant on high-energy resource flows orchestrated by a tightly-organized global network of centralized states increasingly incapable of organizing those flows, whose citizenries are extraordinarily alienated from the material and mental resource base needed to generate local livelihoods.