Sep 6, 2020, 3:36 PM -04:00A home on the web
My personal site is a repository for my memories, experiences, feelings, recipes, tips, photos, and more. […] it is an ever-growing extension of myself that I have total control over, my mirror and memory aid. I want to be able to look back at this when I’m eighty and thank my past self for surfacing things that I otherwise would have forgotten. – On personal sites, and adios analytics — Piper Haywood Hmm, reading this and also Amy Hoy’s post recently (How the Blog Broke the Web) is making me...
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Sep 5, 2020, 8:12 PM -04:00 A rare selfie! I'm so sorry.
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Sep 2, 2020, 10:06 PM -04:00 On Carrots in Tomato Sauce
Not long ago, I joined an Italian cooking group on Facebook. I thought it would be a good opportunity to pick up some tips and recipes. I left the group a couple of months later, after some members became...oh, let's call it "agitated"...over whether Sunday ragu was a "sauce" or a "gravy".
It sounds like a joke, doesn't it? Personal attacks stemming from disagreements over culinary terminology seem like such a cartoonish Italian stereotype that you almost think it just can't be true. Or maybe you just don't want it to be.
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Aug 31, 2020, 8:14 PM -04:00 TIL about Sardinian maggot cheese. I...am not sure what else to say about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu
Casu martzu - Wikipedia
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Aug 30, 2020, 11:30 AM -04:00Structured data for book reviews
Bookshelves crammed with lots of books Almost a week ago, I noted a blog post by Ana Ulin: Adding Structured Book Data to My Blog Posts. Ana added a section to the front matter of her book posts that contains information about the book in question, including her rating. She was kind enough to share her example and the partial template that displays the information on her site. Because I use Grav rather than Hugo as my CMS I couldn’t just steal Ana's template, but I was more than happy to ba... -
Aug 29, 2020, 10:43 PM -04:00 TIL that blackstrap molasses is not the same as fancy molasses. NOT AT ALL.
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Aug 29, 2020, 1:07 PM -04:00 
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vicki (@vboykis) on X
I'm an introvert, so I'm not having as hard of a time as the poor extroverts, but something that I really miss is ambiently being around people. I sometimes like being in cafes, in workspaces, surrounded by conversation and the pulse of busy-ness, feeling like a part of humanity. -
Aug 29, 2020, 11:17 AM -04:00 TIL about the Barbie Liberation Organization who, in 1993, bought up 300-500 talking Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls and switched their voice boxes so the Barbies would say things like "Vengeance is mine" and the G.I. Joes would say things like "The beach is the place for summer". They then returned the dolls to the stores ("reverse shoplifting") to be sold to unsuspecting children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_Liberation_Organization
Barbie Liberation Organization - Wikipedia
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Aug 28, 2020, 6:36 PM -04:00 I'm currently in the process of corrupting Marcella Hazan's tomato sauce with the addition of a red bell pepper and I have to say I feel a little naughty.
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Aug 28, 2020, 8:39 AM -04:00 Reply to https://adactio.com/links/17343
Huh. Either I'm using Together incorrectly or it has a bug but my last comment was meant for another post. Sorry about that!
Aug 28, 2020, 6:30 AM -04:00Robin Rendle ･ A Rocket-Powered Jumbo Jet
Robin Rendle ･ A Rocket-Powered Jumbo Jet August 28th, 2020 Before the hagiographical praise for working with an iPad Pro, Robin nails the fundamental shape of the design process: I had forgotten that there are two modes of design, just as there is in writing. The first mode is understanding the problem, getting a ten-thousand foot view of the land. It’s getting people to acknowledge that this really is the problem we need to agree upon. This work needs to happen in a sketchbo... -
Aug 28, 2020, 8:37 AM -04:00 I enjoy the posts, for what it's worth!
Aug 27, 2020, 7:38 AM -04:00
Isolation Photo Project : Day 158
I considered quitting the Isolation Photo Project last week, but I’ve enjoyed the daily posting. I want to continue posting daily but don’t like all my posts with this title. I’m uncertain how I’ll change things, but I hope to end this project this Sunday. Of course, I’m still physically isolating, and we’re no longer shut-ins like we were from early March to early July. Our weekly socially-distanced-face-mask-wearing outdoor dinners at the Brick Farm Tavern, Flounder Brewing’s beer garden an... -
Aug 28, 2020, 8:32 AM -04:00 Reply to https://adactio.com/links/17343
I enjoy the posts, for what it's worth!
Aug 28, 2020, 6:30 AM -04:00Robin Rendle ･ A Rocket-Powered Jumbo Jet
Robin Rendle ･ A Rocket-Powered Jumbo Jet August 28th, 2020 Before the hagiographical praise for working with an iPad Pro, Robin nails the fundamental shape of the design process: I had forgotten that there are two modes of design, just as there is in writing. The first mode is understanding the problem, getting a ten-thousand foot view of the land. It’s getting people to acknowledge that this really is the problem we need to agree upon. This work needs to happen in a sketchbo... -
Aug 28, 2020, 7:35 AM -04:00
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The Art of Flavio Bolla -
Aug 27, 2020, 9:23 PM -04:00 I'm never excited to eat a Nanaimo bar, and yet they're always so good when I actually eat one.
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Aug 27, 2020, 2:36 PM -04:00 I am not sure what to say about a political figure that points to actual riots happening under his own administration and uses them to criticize the guy who's running against him in the next election.
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Aug 27, 2020, 12:41 PM -04:00 On Being Vaguely Obsessed With Pound Cake
When it comes to food and drink, I tend to lean towards the simple. Or, more accurately, I tend to lean towards the simple and well-made.
One of my favourite memories of the Dominican Republic, for example, was the coco loco - literally just a coconut with the top sliced off and rum mixed into the milk, served with a straw and maybe a squeeze of lime. When the coconut is fresh, the drink is amazing.
Another example would be Marcella Hazan's (in)famous tomato sauce. It literally has only four ingredients (canned tomatoes, butter, onion and salt) and notably no garlic or herbs, so the sauce doesn't really have anywhere to hide; it tastes like buttery, slow cooked tomatoes which is, well, you know, delicious.
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Aug 25, 2020, 7:59 AM -04:00 You (and I) are Xennials! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
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Aug 25, 2020, 7:42 AM -04:00 Right? Like maybe she was quipping about the exorbitant cost of actual ski trips :-)
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Aug 25, 2020, 7:19 AM -04:00 Huh. I had no idea until today that "ski trip" was a euphemism for "cocaine binge". I mean, I actually do know people who ski for real fairly regularly and my first thought was just "they don't really look different after? Maybe a little flushed" :-)
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Tonight I learned that a lot of people I follow on twitter know what someone looks like after a long ski weekend. I see you Gen X. -
Aug 24, 2020, 9:02 PM -04:00 I hear you. I keep all of them on my hard drive and keep it backed up to two external drives. You may also be interested in my methodology for organizing my photos: https://desmondrivet.com/2018/11/18/photo-organization
Aug 24, 2020, 5:50 PM -04:00I have thirteen years worth of personal pictures in my Google Drive and I really dislike now how the whole collection is in the hands of a single corporation. -
Aug 24, 2020, 8:02 AM -04:00 My personal website is https://desmondrivet.com I have a blog on it and a kind of microblog as well. It's not wildly beautiful. I write about whatever strikes my fancy, so I definitely wouldn't call it "cohesive". But it's there and I use it and it's mine.
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Aug 22, 2020, 4:39 PM -04:00 Found an interesting side road
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Aug 22, 2020, 10:13 AM -04:00
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Etymology of the day: ‘window’ was a gift from the Vikings, whose word for a hole in a wall or roof was ‘vindauga’: ‘eye of the wind’. Before ‘window’, the Anglo-Saxons used ‘eye-thirl’, in which ‘thirl’ meant ‘hole’: hence ‘nose-thirls’ or ‘nostrils’, ‘nose holes’. -
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