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What I’ve watched
I keep a little log.
I love the idea of having an algorithm decide where I should go on an outing. The problem with geohashing is that “my” graticule is quite large and almost three-quarters water. Neighbouring graticules are often too far away. So despite my best intentions, I have not actually been on very many expeditions. That is why I was very interested when Christof said he was considering building an alternative version that would work on what I think one might call decigraticules and centigraticules or, more simply, what Christof calls walkable and bikeable. The result is a brilliant website that offers you much more accessible options every day.
Today, I put it to use for the first time.
I was intrigued to see that Remy Sharp had converted his “No More 404” script into a service, and promptly asked if I could use it. Remy obliged, and I just installed it which means, I hope, even fewer broken links on this site.
An interesting post from Brent Lineberry explained why and prompted me to examine my own practice.
I’ve made my own yoghurt since forever, when my Mom bought a strange kit that consisted of a tray cover, like the kind you see removed with a flourish in fancy restaurants, only double-walled aluminium, which covered a set of six hexagonal jars that came together with a hole in the middle for a much smaller jar. You heated the milk, let it cool, inoculated with yoghurt from the previous batch, in the smaller jar, poured it into the big jars and the small jar and put the cover on. Twelve hours later, yoghurt.
A good month, with two brief excursions and a lot of little achievements.
I have never felt as much a part of a close-knit community as I did in university. On the very first day, three of us (out of five) in what you might I suppose call a dorm discovered an instant friendship. By the cancelled 50th reunion in 2020, one of us was no longer alive to attend. In between, and still now, there was just something very special that started back then.