Roger Scrafford
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  • Yes, I can be pedantic. Why do you ask?

    As a pedant myself, I never tire of this one:&10;Peasants give the landowner a grammar lesson.

    27 September 2023
  • For the first cup of the day …

    When you have to get the last drop of milk for your first morning cup.

    26 September 2023
  • I suppose if I had LOTS of money I would buy a fine new iPhone, but I am no stranger to buyer’s remorse.

    22 September 2023
  • I have not learned how to add alt text to images in my micro.blog posts.

    22 September 2023
  • Today (September 19) is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. In that spirit I will begin reading the excellent novel “Yiddish for Pirates” by Gary Barwin. (The narrator is an African Gray parrot.)

    19 September 2023
  • Gimme air!

    Bad air this morning — Purpleair numbers are about 145 at 7am. We have a small air filter running the kitchen area of the house which does a fair job of pulling out the bad things. I have all the parts to make a serious filter, but have been procrastinating.

    27 August 2023
  • Rusticating

    We’re in the middle days of our ‘camping’ getaway. Not far away from home, but very different. Amazing how much writing I can get done without the temptations of the internet.

    Normally I would not tap into my phone’s hotspot, but I’m making an exception for micro.blog.

    And now, back to actual typing.

    23 August 2023
  • Doing that camping thing. Ms Me and I, camping for the first time in a year.

    21 August 2023
  • I fired up one of the many “AI” or “LLM” apps. This one is known as “Poe”. I asked it to “define classical democracy”, then “modern democracy”. No problem. The response was instantaneous.

    Then I asked it to “define socialism”. The response was delivered as if the response was being constructed in real time.

    29 July 2023
  • For no good reason, I was surprised to find a post by Manton on Threads: www.threads.net/@manton

    25 July 2023
  • Bulletin: gato ≠ gateau

    28 June 2023
  • We’re dealing with this year’s outbreak of “rabbit hemorrhagic disease.” I guess it’s nature reminding us that we’re all here on borrowed time.

    25 June 2023
  • Some people here in town (Langley, Washington, USA) had to take their potted plants indoors because of the unexpected hail this morning.

    18 June 2023
  • This seems as good a time as any for a leisurely
    sit-down and an ounce or two of Lost Republic rye.

    10 June 2023
  • For those who may have been too often married: punchdrink.com/recipes/r…

    3 June 2023
  • Sunny day with excellent coffee from freshly-ground beans. I will not disturb the moment by taking up Maurizio Lazzarato’s “Capital Hates Everyone”.

    3 June 2023
  • Preferred pronunciation: 🎶 Save the scones for Henry Jones
    Alternate pronunciation: 🎵 Save the scones for Henry Johns

    26 May 2023
  • Ruth Mottram (@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org) has a good piece about climate scientists fleeing to greener pastures. Check there for lots of links
    sternaparadisaea.net/2023/02/0…
    #climate #scientists

    25 May 2023
  • H/T to @benwerd for pointing us to the Mother Jones piece on Kissinger.

    25 May 2023
  • Oats in my coffee

    For this morning’s coffee I’m trying out a non-dairy ‘milk’ called Oatley Barista Edition. It’s an oat milk with a bit of rapeseed oil added, presumably for mouth feel. It may be a decent substitute for dairy milk if that’s what you are used to. But for half and half? No.

    25 May 2023
  • NYTimes is effing with Wordle again. I am not amused.

    19 May 2023
  • It’s always a good thing to take in useless information. Like this:

    “If the ratio of legislators to residents nationally matched New Hampshire, there would be nearly 96,000 people in the U.S. House.”

    Happy Wednesday!

    17 May 2023
  • We’re going to Vancouver (BC) for five days next week. Which should I take: * the 2020 M1 MacBook Pro with its 13.3” screen? * the 9th gen iPad with “Logi” keyboard/case? * a field notes notebook & pen?

    10 May 2023
  • Over on the birdsite, @matthew_d_green writes: “Chrome is replacing the ‘lock’ icon with… something. I don’t know what it is. Might be two people sharing a sleeping bag.”

    3 May 2023
  • Apropos of Bluesky and the others, Techdirt has an excellent piece on the current “post-twitter diaspora” options:

    www.techdirt.com/2023/04/2…

    28 April 2023

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