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Show Notes for October 13, 2022

Transportation Elon Musk has Some Bad Ideas for Mass Transit. We Have Solutions. Switzerland: Cargo Sous Terrain : "a complete logistics system for the flexible transport of small-component goods. Tunnels connect production and logistics sites with urban centres. Overground, CST distributes the transported goods in environmentally-friendly vehicles, contributing to the reduction of traffic and noise emissions." Altitude of a B2 bomber: "The B-2 can reach [...] an altitude of more [than] 50,000 feet." ( ref ) Tech "The Sony CDP-101 is the world's first commercially released compact disc player. The system was launched in Japan on October 1, 1982 at a list price of 168,000 yen (approx US$730)." ( Wikipedia ) Music Christian Li 14 year-old Chinese-Australian violinist "signed with Decca Classics at the age of 12 and became the youngest musician to sign with the label" Massenet: Thaïs - Méditation Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Prokofiev Toccata in D...

Show Notes for June 17, 2022 (and earlier)

 Food & drink Swiss under pressure to ban the eating of dogs and cats "Think of Endless West as the Beyond Meat/Impossible Foods of the alcohol world." Glyph Glyph 85H Molecular Spirit Whiskey (750ml) YouTube channels Not another cooking show Adam Ragusea The EG-1 80mm Flat Burr Electric Grinder  ($4,249 and out of stock) Alcohol doesn’t really “cook out” of food in most cases This would need more studies, I think. And one specifically for fondue! COVID You Are Going to Get COVID Again … And Again … And Again Tech Vacuum Tube Computer  project Misc Ask a mortician The Foster City geese in the New York Times:  As Geese Leave Mementos, a California City Weighs a Cull

Show Notes for May 12, 2022

Louis C.K.: mild racism Combat de Reines: La Finale nationale de la race d’Hérens  (2016) I Met The Italian King of Carbonara ! (MasterChef Luciano Monosilio, Rome) I Try To Master The World's Best Carbonara Pasta (full recipe) Oversimplified : "Explaining things in an OverSimplified way" James Hoffmann 's coffee channel

Show Notes for April 28, 2022

pinny [noun] a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing  synonyms: jumper, pinafore Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway's Pivot podcast CuriousMarc HP 9825 Repair - Part 14: Crowbar Protection Circuit Depp v. Heard  "is a defamation trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, that began on 11 April 2022. The parties are actors Johnny Depp (plaintiff) and Amber Heard (defendant), who were married from 2015 to 2017 but had been together since 2012."

Show Notes for April 21, 2022

Déjeuner vs. petit-déjeuner Wikipedia : "Le décalage constaté en France date de l'invention aristocratique et bourgeoise au xixe siècle du petit-déjeuner gastronomique dit « au saut du lit », repoussant le déjeuner à midi, le dîner au soir et le souper, sorte de petit repas festif, pendant la nuit." "En Belgique francophone, en Suisse romande, au Canada francophone et en Vallée d'Aoste, le premier repas du jour s’appelle encore « déjeuner »" Donc décalage, surtout dans les villes, pas sous Louis XIV mais plus tard, selon Wikipedia. Ski Markus Eder's The Ultimate Run - The Most Insane Ski Run Ever Imagined Geek stuff 3Blue1Brown  YouTube  / site : "3Blue1Brown, by Grant Sanderson, is some combination of math and entertainment, depending on your disposition. The goal is for explanations to be driven by animations and for difficult problems to be made simple with changes in perspective." World/politics CNN reporter tours abandoned Russian military...

Show Notes for April 8, 2021

BeerXML Acouphène Social Credit System

Show Notes for August 13, 2020

Award-winning Ghostwood Beer Company to close taproom Kamala Here's How To Properly Pronounce Kamala Harris An editing battle over Kamala Harris’s race is a sign of what’s to come. QSEHRA Moscow  "is among the world's largest cities, being the most populous city entirely within Europe, the most populous urban area in Europe, the most populous metropolitan area in Europe, and also the largest city (by area) on the European continent." BIPOC