estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
In Atlanta, Georgia it is illegal to tie your giraffe to a streetlamp. It is not illegal, though, to import a cushion made from a freshly shot giraffe’s head with the eyelashes still attached. https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n22/katherine-rundell/consider-the-giraffe
Artoo is THE only character who spans all movies, Episodes I-IX & all in between
...a worthy thread
https://twitter.com/FlintDibble/status/1355269255101558785
TIL you can do a full text search in Project Gutenberg https://gutensearch.com
"Wine doesn’t really ever go bad, it just starts to taste nasty to most of us after a while, and eventually becomes vinegar." https://www.vinography.com/2020/12/how-long-does-a-bottle-of-wine-last-after-it-is-opened
This was dinner tonight. Two thumbs up.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018068-chicken-paprikash
Furniture giant Ikea is planning to sell spare parts for its furniture. Its aim is to prolong the life of its products and to dispel the idea that it makes disposable goods. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55796429
Physicists at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have figured out how to test the authenticity of bottles of fine Scotch whisky using laser light, without ever having to open the bottles. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/its-now-possible-to-detect-counterfeit-whisky-without-opening-the-bottle/
Archaeologists finally learned the name of an early pharaoh’s queen. They also found dozens of tombs that might belong to worshippers of queen Narat’s husband. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/egyptian-archaeologists-unearth-dozens-of-tombs-at-saqqara-necropolis/
The first words transmitted by various technologies http://interconnected.org/home/2020/10/12/first_words
Bison have been returned at last to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana. https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.2/indigenous-affairs-tribes-reclaiming-the-national-bison-range
A nun, a priest, and a rabbit walk into a blood bank. The rabbit says, "I think I'm a type-o."
"Invented by the British cartographer John Spilsbury in the 1760s, the earliest puzzles were designed to make geography lessons more fun for schoolchildren and, no doubt, inculcate them early into the cult of empire." https://psyche.co/ideas/on-the-consolatory-pleasure-of-jigsaws-when-the-world-is-in-bits
The Codex Atlanticus “is the largest existing collection of original drawings and text by Leonardo da Vinci” — 1,119 pages assembled by the 16th–century sculptor Pompeo Leoni. Milan’s Biblioteca Ambrosiana and The Visual Agency have created an interactive graphic that lets you explore the pages by year and subject. https://codex-atlanticus.it/#/
Something to feel good about
"The public health workers were driving back from a vaccination site in rural Cave Junction, Oregon, on Tuesday when they got stuck in a snowstorm on the highway ... The crew realized they could be stuck for hours and the doses would expire. So the workers made the decision to walk from car to car asking stranded drivers if they wanted to be vaccinated, right there on the spot."
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/oregon-health-workers-stuck-in-the-snow-administer-covid-19-vaccine-to-stranded-drivers/
“What I have done to language in the service of cover letters haunts me.” On the art and history of the dreaded cover letter. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/01/27/the-art-of-the-cover-letter/
Note to self: The lemon tree is full. https://www.olivemagazine.com/guides/best-ever/best-ever-lemon-desserts-and-puddings/
A snowflake generator ... gosh this is fun to play with https://viviariums.com/projects/snowflake/interactive/
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017