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Ill

I’ve been all kinds (well, 2) of ill recently and it’s rubbish. Last weekend I had (I think) COVID - something along those lines anyway. Then on Wednesday or Thursday my wife and six-year-old both had some sort of norovirus. Lots of sick. Very unpleasant for them, and I was left trying to hold things together. I...
I have been alerted by a reader to an odd etymology: the word aspic, in the words of the OED ā€œA savoury jelly made with meat stock; a cold dish consisting of such a jelly set in a mould and containing pieces of meat, seafood, or hard-boiled eggs,ā€ is from French, and ā€œLittrĆ© suggests its derivation < aspic asp,...
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Lago di Garda
I can’t say for certain that this will be my last AI post for a bit, but last night just before bed Stella asked me to ask the AIs about boba tea. I decided to indulge her and was surprised to see that, after doing such a horrible job on summarizing the Percy Jackson book or Snow Crash, it did a great job with boba...
[In this case, the internet is a series of tubes to nowhere.] Adak Island is 1,200 miles from Anchorage, and all but deserted since its naval base closed in 1997. Nevertheless, it receives government-subsidized internet service at a cost of over $340,000 a year. And it seems not a single person is using it. We know...
4-star hikes • 2 to 5 mile options • Moderate | Gain 530 to 1,780 feet • Wallingford, VT | Southern Region . White Rocks Cliffs, best viewed from Ice Beds Trail. The striking quartzite talus slopes of the White Rocks Cliffs are a signature landmark of southern Vermont, offering hikes to two distinct destinations....
Yerba Mate isn’t one flavour. It’s a spectrum as wide as wine or whisky, shaped by country, cut, smoke, age, and the temperature of the water you pour. A shade-grown chimarrĆ£o from ParanĆ” tastes nothing like a barbacuĆ” from Corrientes. A wild-harvested Brazilian yerba that wants 85 °C water breaks every rule on the...
About five years ago I made a mental decision to document all of the songs that get stuck in my head. This might be hard for some people to understand, but when I get something in my head, it usually takes a couple of days for it to wash out, and there’s no telling how it’s going to get in there in the first place:...

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