Jeremy Cherfas

This morning’s glory. Showed up out of nowhere last year and seems to breed true. At least the one plant that has flowered so far. pesos

What a terrific essay from George Orwell, which goes well beyond this choice jumping-off point:

“[T]he toad, unlike the skylark and the primrose, has never had much of a boost from poets.”

@gastrohistory shamed me into cleaning my salad spinner, and I’m happy about that. 

I don’t doubt that medical software is bad and that doctors have good cause to complain. But in a fight to the death, I suspect software for human resources or for teachers might be even worse.

Nothing says summer quite like tidying up the tomatoes for the first time. pesos

Excellent Conversations with Tyler episode talking to David Deutsch (apart from the whole multiverse thing about which I am not competent to judge, and nor do I care).

Made a start on the annual tweakage of the automatic watering system for the terrace, but the main enemy remains lack of pressure. It fluctuates through the day so need to try and find the maximum.

The fact that these cult-members were willing to risk their lives, but not endure poor web design, says a lot about the nature of the Trump cult, and its relationship to passive media.

Not going to let the lack of a green chilli stop me making Madhur Jaffrey’s khatte chole, sour chickpeas. pesos

It’s fun to see someone have their world view shot to hell. There are two things going on here. One is that time is a good substitute for energy when it comes to developing gluten. The other is that time develops flavour, even from a teeny amount of leaven.

Cereal friends, would you like to create your own evolutionary populations? /ppAll it takes is time, ingenuity and land. French researchers Emma Flipon and Véronique Chable have made a handy-dandy poster showing how it is done (with links to lots more detail) The poster is at ow.ly/lXhu50F0R… /ppThe work was part of the EU Liveseed project. I’m not part of that, but I think more people should be aware of it. pesos

Excellent read, with lots of far-flung examples.

Burgers! pesos

Pretty good spot for lunch. pesos

Never having had to deal with prescriptions and refilling them in the same way, I thought I had it bad, needing to send a fax to cancel my account with my internet service provider! This reminds me of a movie where the entire plot hinges on a fax that fell behind the machine and so was never seen. Not that I can remember the movie.

There surely has to be a better way.

Currently reading: The Screaming Sky by Charles Foster

                     #Non-fiction

First of the summer pesto. pesos

One of the resultant loaves. 50% wholemeal sourdough. pesos