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Ocelot Spleens
Ocelot Spleens
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Up Pompeii! Pizza is old hat.

bbc.com
GlennR
GlennR
Jun 2023
9:50pm, 29 Jun 2023
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“MSCHF microscopic bag 'smaller than grain of salt' sells for $63,750”

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GlennR
GlennR
Jun 2023
10:31pm, 29 Jun 2023
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“His great-grandfather had been killed in a freak yodelling accident”.
GlennR
GlennR
Jun 2023
9:47am, 30 Jun 2023
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I have been reading about the writer Flannery O'Conner:

"When she was six, O'Connor experienced her first brush with celebrity status. Pathé News filmed "Little Mary O'Connor" with her trained chicken and showed the film around the country. She said: "When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been an anticlimax."

In high school, when the girls were required to sew Sunday dresses for themselves, O'Connor sewed a full outfit of underwear and clothes to fit her pet duck and brought the duck to school to model it."
GregP
GregP
Jun 2023
10:23am, 30 Jun 2023
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I think I regret reading that.
GregP
GregP
Jun 2023
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Don't think I've posted this before:

Smartwatches Can Be Toxic, Too

allure.com

People with a predisposition for disordered behaviors are more susceptible to becoming addicted to their devices and experiencing a relapse of the accompanying habits.


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[GR - I'll post it on GoL later - AF may have Views]
GlennR
GlennR
Jun 2023
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A question, to which I do not have an answer: do such devices, or the ubiquity of smartphones, contribute to addiction problems, or merely make it easier to identify people who have them?
GregP
GregP
Jul 2023
9:19am, 1 Jul 2023
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See GoL - those of us with what some call an ‘addictive personality’ tend to have an unhealthy relationship with the whole quantified self thing.
swittle
swittle
Jul 2023
10:50am, 1 Jul 2023
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'The Motorcycle Diaries' was the last film I saw at the bijou Hyde Park Picture House in Headingley. Now restored, it is believed to be the last remaining cinema in the world with gas fuelled lighting, installed to discourage hankypanky in the stalls. Where else?

bbc.co.uk
GlennR
GlennR
Jul 2023
12:15pm, 1 Jul 2023
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Fascinating. We still have a few gas street lights in Cambridge.

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I often make notes when reading of things that I'd like to come back to later on, perhaps to su...

Hummus recipe:

Proper hummus is served with a drizzle of olive oil, rather than oil being a significant ingredient in its own right. This is what should go in it:

• 1½ cups cooked chickpeas or 1 (15-ounce) canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed*
• 3 tablespoons tahini
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 garlic clove, mashed
• ¼ teaspoon salt, or more to taste
• Approximately 2-4 tablespoons room-temperature water or aquafaba, or more if needed
• Optional garnishes: extra virgin olive oil, sumac or paprika, finely chopped parsley or other herbs, whole chickpeas

This particular recipe from thymeandtoast.com but it’s typical of the Middle Eastern way of making it.

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