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Jeff had already talked about wanting to visit that particular farmer's market again because they sell some other things we like and can't find anywhere else; when we go, I definitely intend to check their spice selection again and see if they have other cayenne variants with different HU numbers. ...

People might find this interesting; it's a tool that lets you pick chords and then tell you which ones tend to come next (in the pop ouvre, mostly) and shows you which songs match the progression you've put together. https://www.hooktheory.com/trends For example, songs that go from Em to C include "...

once you've decided your song is in the key of D, it would be damned near impossible to write it without those four chords or at least the three major chords. (Okay, maybe I-V if you're punk.) "One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." -- Lou Reed There are ac...

While I was looking for something completely unrelated, I found the January 1919 edition of Telephone Engineer monthly, and this notice was printed near the front:

The NYer also published this a while back: The Plague Year which deals more with the political aspects of things in the US. There's a lot in there about how the Feds basically took an adversarial stance with the states, which led to some pretty crazy things, up to and including using the state Natio...

Without looking into your article, every country on earth has reported 15 to 30 percent more deaths than the year before. They do actually get into that: What to do when you can’t take coroners’ reports at face value, assuming that you even have a coroner’s report? Public-health experts have a sayi...

An interesting look into why Covid-19 has hit richer countries in the "global north" harder than poorer countries in the "global south": https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/01/why-does-the-pandemic-seem-to-be-hitting-some-countries-harder-than-others Possible explanations include the age stru...

We sold one of the extra Singer Featherweight sewing machines we had! Almost $400, and it sold in less than 48 hours after we put it up. Not too bad for a well-loved 1955 machine with a busted-up case.

(We have another 1955 for sale too. My grandmother's 1939 is staying with us, though.)

Sorry, Ellie (the URL is also one of the best parts of this story) This funky little robot’s name is Nicobo, and it was created by Panasonic for companionship. It’s loosely catlike; it farts. It cannot do more than wiggle its head and its tail and blink its unnervingly digital eyes. It can sort of ...

The next time somebody whines at you about how much more enlightened Europeans are France, cradle of the Concorde, the face transplant, and the first isolation of HIV, is more wary of vaccines and the economic value of science than more than 140 other countries, according to a global survey of publi...

This makes the problem so much clearer - I am Lawful Good and my wife is True Neutral.

Tablets from a Mesopotamian first grade class. It's also funny to think that somebody's discarded homework ended up as part of the archeological records to be discovered thousands of years later. "OK, class, assignments are due today. Belteshazzar, where is your homework?" "I lost it...TO HISTORY"

So, the German muckity-mucks wore steampunk helmets. Interesting. Pickelhaube is the term you want to Google here. They ranged from fairly simple 'army helmet with a spike' to seriously Flash-Gordon-looking things. Fun fact: the US Army dress uniform in the late 1900s included a pickelhaube, as doe...

Congratulations on becoming part of the capitalist ruling class!

The rent/eviction moratorium wouldn't bother me so much if it were also accompanied by (for example) a "tax on rental properties and income" -- the landlord can't kick you out during this emergency, but neither does the landlord owe property or income tax on anything related to your rental. But of ...

Any time somebody starts talking about cancelling rent and like landlords are all just rolling in cash all the time, you can point them at this article . The problems aren't entirely COVID-related, either. Redhead operates a family real estate firm with her sister that owns four, four-story walk-ups...

So that was actually seen by an editor before it went out? An editor actually saw that and said, "Yup, looks good"?

The more of The Stand I watch, the more it does feel like watching the Cliffs Notes of something longer. I still like it, but it starts to feel really rushed.

Actually this one might be even better:

I found my new car.

https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/s ... 23593.html

(The only part I take issue with is "I built the car to look like VW delivered it this way", to which I would say, "No." But honestly, I don't even care.)

At the very least could the judge be more dignified than this? I mean, if he committed murder, or an enormous heist, I could understand, but going down for keying somebody's car is just kind of pathetic.

New York judge resigns after keying town official’s car