estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Wow, this sounds like a movie I want to watch. And Jason Isaacs has been amazing in other roles.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/13/cary-grants-hollywoods-archibald-leach-mother-archie
I got a spam e-mail message with the wording, layout, and text formatting of a Jira ticket. #WTF
Go home, Netflix job listing. You're drunk. https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/303524654
Former World Barista Champion James Hoffman virtually hosted the Great American Coffee Taste Test, during which thousands of people simultaneously blind-tasted the same four coffees. Hoffman has published a video summarizing the results, as well as a spreadsheet of anonymized survey responses from 4,000+ participants. It includes tasters’ demographics, general coffee drinking habits and preferences (https://bit.ly/gacttCSV+), assessments of the four coffees, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMOOQfeloH0
Surely I am not the only one who's looking for a few SIMPLE things to cook this week? I found several candidates here. https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/collection/easy-traybake-recipes/
Assyrian Women of Letters
More than 23,000 cuneiform tablets have been uncovered at the site. Of these, epigrapher and Assyriologist Cécile Michel of the French National Center for Scientific Research has curated and interpreted more than 300 that bear letters written by or to women who belonged to a highly literate Assyrian merchant class.
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/530-2311/features/11800-kanesh-assyrian-letters
Jason Lanier discussing the future of AI: It's all just real people (2012)
I found this interview we'd posted on HPIO back in 2012. Seems prescient now.
Best art books of 2023. You know I'm a fool for a good book list. Artist monographs, surveys, and historical reflections to prove that art really does make the world a better place. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/best-art-books-2023
Best art books of 2023. You know I'm a fool for a good book list. Artist monographs, surveys, and historical reflections to prove that art really does make the world a better place. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/best-art-books-2023
estherschindler
boosted
To the snowflakes and other entitled asshats:
When you are treated as 'special' for too long, being treated equally seems unfair.
Once a year, she’s tasked with summing up the entire world, and all its complexities, in a single color. https://thehustle.co/who-chooses-the-worlds-color-of-the-year/
This novel has all the elements of a reliable historical mystery: a protagonist with a yet-to-be-revealed backstory, interesting characters, a setting that brings you into a different-place-and-time (WW I), and, of course a bookstore and a cat.
It's a holiday weekend. When ELSE are you going to indulge yourself?
What’s the difference between a Hippo and a Zippo?
One’s really heavy and the other is a little lighter.
Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library featured a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Ezra Stiles "concerning measuring the temperature of snow." https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2004586
"We highlighted the employees who currently work in each tech giant and previously worked for one of the others. This allowed us to calculate the number and percentage of employees who’ve moved from each of these companies to another." https://switchonbusiness.com/most-talent-from-competitors/
A study on mouse embryos grown in space suggests that the radiation and weightlessness of space might not pose immediate obstacles to mammalian reproduction. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-mammal-embryos-grown-space
I've read every book in the Gaslight Mystery series. This review of #21 may suggest why. https://amzn.to/47IiETg
Julia Child’s Culinary Notes: “Rushing from stove to typewriter like a mad hen…” https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/julia-childs-culinary-notes
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017