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YouTube video by Yo La Tengo Yo La Tengo - "Autumn Sweater" (Official Audio)

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A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

(Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)

Not a poem, but a book that reads like one: "We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence."

Misery loves company.

Huh, I saw plenty of Lucy in the late 80s.

Ummm

I spent NYE into NYD in the hospital (I'm fine); my son has significantly diminished hearing/tinnitus without pain, which is scary; and I don't think my dog will live out the month. So 2024 is off to an awesome start.

It's also sooooo easy. I make enough dough for 8 (we each have our own) and freeze it, along with making/freezing batches of single-serving red sauce and cheese. I don't know about you but for me the Artisan steel was the key to getting the bottoms to cook well. Worth the (hefty) price.

Putting in the work was so worth it for a 5yo who always looks forward to it.

If none of you are going to tell me when my collar is messed up, I'm not even sure what you're doing in my movie.

hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave

A photo of a head of Romanesco, a chartreuse vegetable that is a relative of cauliflower and broccoli and that looks eerily like a fractal

I never get tired of staring at Romanesco—whose fractal shape is a record of flower buds recursively trying and failing to come into being www.newscientist.com/article/2283...

Ooooookay

Dogs: Look who's talking.

My arms, too, which is apparently a consequence of, I don't know, lifting them from my sides for a few minutes?

Did some rudimentary blues exercises on the piano, basically the first time I've engaged in an organized piano activity in over 30 years and a new embarkation on what I hope will be a constructive meditation, and lordy my hands are *tired*.

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

Lucky you. When my unused legacy system went haywire it was at a full-blown shriek. I had to use a crowbar to open the box, which enabled me to guess at what wires I was cutting. Then I mostly guessed wrong, which I attribute to the panic the racket elicited. I cut a lot before I killed it.

Brassica xkcd.com/2827

I like to imagine that Hemingway still dreams of the halcyon days when my Italian retired steelworker neighbor would hand him pieces of whatever animal he was cooking over the fence.

So I guess now I'm picking sides in the richer-than-god-bros war.