July 17, 2022
Come with me if you want to lick
If cats sounded like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Just what it says on the (cat food?) tin. (SLYT)
Sash windows can be a very effective source of ventilation
The science behind sash windows (YouTube) TLDR: Two openings at different heights will maximise airflow/cooling. The Q&A at the end covers building efficiency and ventilation for heat/cool/viral transmission.
We are a family that has always been very close in spirit.
Goodbye, My Brother is a short story by John Cheever. ""What are the realities?" he said. "Diana is a foolish and a promiscuous woman. So is
Odette. Mother is an alcoholic. If she doesn't discipline herself, she'll be in a hospital in a year or
two. Chaddy is dishonest. He always has been. The house is going to fall into the sea." He looked at me and added, as an afterthought, "You're a fool."
"You're a gloomy son of a bitch," I said. "You're a gloomy son of a bitch."" [more inside]
Take me to the river and sing
Some people didn't have to fill a Trader Joe's cart with panic beans
In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything Eating (and eating well!) in the Alaskan Bush. [more inside]
Who cares if you knew about Kate Bush before someone else did?
Drew Austin writes about how "social media feeds’ transition from chronological to algorithmic sorting was a manipulation of time comparable to the railroad’s manipulation of space" and references Robin Sloan pointing out that "social media is an orthographic camera."
“…a psychic and physical danger to men”
Since antiquity, women’s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles: A brief history of women's eyebrows in art
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