Leisureguy on Mastodon updated his post on Nordic walking and that proved the stimulus I needed to take up sticks again. I had a good workout yesterday, and as we discussed the topic, knowing that he used an Apple Watch, as do I, I asked which activity he used to record Nordic walks. Because of course Apple doesn’t believe people need to record their Nordic walks.

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Is it possible that corn (maize) farmers in the US eastern corn belt are collectively giving up on $99 million a year ($1.98 billion in lifetime benefits) by paying too much for seed? That seems to be one possible conclusion of a paper just published in Science.

A large team led by Christian Kr...

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One of the nice things about following people online is that sometimes they give you an entirely new reason to follow them. So it was with Fractal Kitty. I came for strangely wonderful crochet and then discovered her journaling habits and processes, which made me think about mine.

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A couple of days ago I had a very frustrating experience trying to export my Notes and Highlights from a book I had been reading in Apple’s Books. Long story short, it was difficult, they were in a weird random order, and some were missing. A disaster. This matters a lot to me, because I don’t like...

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Some weeks ago I developed the notion to take up crochet. I’m honestly not too sure why. I knitted once, long ago, a very long scarf a while before Tom Baker made them fashionable, but knitting seemed a bit too much of a statement and two long needles too much to carry around casually. So, crochet. I did nothing about this notion until three weeks ago, when I mentioned it to a friend with whom I regularly drink coffee.

She said “I’ve been thinking the exact same thing”.

So we agreed to start and, to hold one another to it, to meet the following week chrochet in hand.

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