Jeff Smith

An old guy in Arkansas once told my dad that the secret to deep frying catfish was to get the oil hot enough to light a match. I’m glad my dad never tried that. Sounded like a good way to burn down the house.

Deep frying is a science and an art it would seem.

Yours look fantastic!

Our local Polish-owned bakery has these only on Saturday. I haven’t bought any in ages, but now I must make a visit this coming Saturday morning.

Amazing to think the Internet is actually…global. And people may want to access stuff from anywhere. Sigh

Isn’t that how it’s pronounced?

But then again up my way I pronounce Matakana as Mah-tah-kah-nah (all the sound the doctor tells you to make when they check your throat). I get corrected all too often with Mat-aa-can-aa

The 17 Things That Changed Beer in the Past Two Decades — Beervana In the first celebratory post of my 20 years blogging, I offer a list of the 17 most transformational developments in beer in the past two decades. Which items made the list: Glitter beer? Brut IPA? T...

In the first celebratory post of my 20 years blogging, I offer a list of the 17 most transformational developments in beer in the past two decades. Which items made the list: Glitter beer? Brut IPA? The vortex bottle? I offer the definitive answers.

I use Safari more than Chrome so had to look this up. Can’t really do this at all in Safari. My kanji reading has atrophied significantly to I also have a plugin for a Safari called Furganify (very helpful to have it automatically add furigana)

Chrome gives you two solid approaches. First, Chrome supports multiple profiles natively and each profile maintains its own language settings. You can create a "Japanese" profile with Japanese set as the primary language under Settings → Languages, and switch between profiles easily via the profile icon in the top-right corner. This is the cleanest solution for a bilingual workflow. Second, Chrome has extensions that let you override the Accept-Language header on a per-site basis. The extension "Quick Language Switcher" or "Locale Switcher" allow you to set language preferences by domain, so visiting, say, nintendo.co.jp could automatically signal Japanese preference while your default stays English. These are worth evaluating to see which is currently maintained and best-rated in the Chrome Web Store.

You will need to switch.

Maybe you can create another profile in your browser and switch to the Japanese profile set to Japanese language when you need it, and keep your default profile set to English.

If your browser language is set to Japanese it should give you Japanese language content. Most websites look at that setting in the http request

four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

Happy New Year!

新年快樂!

Oh I’ve had that many times in the midst of a typhoon. You wake up in the middle of the night because it suddenly is quiet.

More crazy was a typhoon in Tainan, Taiwan where the entire hotel was swaying and creaking - then nothing.

Sleep well!

Don't miss our wonderful new @EmpirePodUK series on
THE BRONZE APOCALYPSE

@anitaanand.bsky.social & I dive into the most dramatic imperial collapse in history.

How come the ancient civilisations of the late Bronze Age were so interconnected 3000 years ago? How did this interconnectedness lead to their downfall? Did people at the time know that disaster was on the horizon?
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In Episode 1, @anitaanand.bsky.social and I are joined by Josephine Quinn, author of How The World Made The West, and Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge University, to discuss the ancient Mediterranean city states on the brink of the Bronze Age Collapse of 1147 BCE.
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In Episode Two we are joined by Stephen Fry to discuss one of the greatest of all stories:
THE FALL OF TROY
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You can definitely get a great breakfast and do something like going up to the observation level of Taipei 101.

Yes, and how many times can a turd float by
And pretend that we just don't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

The moment they scan your boarding pass and the light turns red. Heart skips a beat as you don’t know if something has gone wrong or something has gone right.

Congratulations!

And this scene from Indiana Jones has always stuck in my mind

I didn’t watch the Super Bowl (have never actually watch a whole Super Bowl in my life despite my dad having been a huge football fan)

But I did see Bad Bunny’s listing off of the American countries and that was awesome!

Well to be fair I’m often from the state of confusion

Has always bothered me that people from US call themselves American. I’ve also tried to say I’m from the US.

Why Mexican-American? Why Afro-American? etc They are all Americans

Why not European-American, English-American, Irish-American? Because white people are auto-assumed to be “American”?

But she didn’t spill her wine?

I miss that Dutch restaurant at the roundabout in Birkenhead. Those small round (approaching takoyaki style) Dutch pancakes with tons of powdered sugar were awesome

Seems the real storm slid past us up here in Warkworth. Just barely over 5mm of rain measured by my rain gauge. But our tile floor was slick with condensation all day.

I have sweat beading on my sweat. If the air gets much thicker will need scuba gear to breath.

99% humidity

It isn’t raining but rather there is water seeping from the air