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Tue Nov 27 09:19:50 EST 2018 Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty without waking. High of thirty-two today, with scattered snow. Work: - Backup Done. - Check PO approvals Done. - Work on rent increases Done. - Order USB hub for Lori Done. - Deploy new TLS cert to EdgeRouters Done. Following lease renewal, a Pitney-Bowes swapped out our mail machine this morning. Fifteen-minute walk at lunch. Gray but not unpleasantly cold. Most of the leaves have fallen from even the low scrub bushes. Home: - Have we re-titled car and removed Toyota from insurance yet? No. Ten-minute walk after work. Dark and slightly cold. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534629 https://daily.jstor.org/the-secret-syndicate-behind-nancy-drew/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/sep/23/three-investigators-detective-fiction > The U.S. was in the early stages of the Great Depression. Nancy was green-lit by Grosset & Dunlap just days before the stock market crash, but you wouldn’t know it from reading the books. She drives her roadster and dresses immaculately throughout the Depression and several wars, only alluding to them in the most oblique terms. (In one book, she takes flying lessons. And at another point, someone mentions that Ned, her ever-steadfast, never serious beau, is in Europe.) If you wanted to, you could disappear into the cozy world of River Heights where all the bad things would be brought into the light and Nancy would deal with them. The plots were intentionally kept free of murder and anything too harrowing, as well as anything that might be seen as sexual—Nancy and Ned never kiss. They were intended to be safe for children, but also functioned as an escape from the heavy realities of their cultural moment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18532256 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/smoking-banana-peels-1960s-donovan-mellow-yellow-hoax > The craze became so widespread that both the scientific community and the government got involved. The FDA set up a machine that essentially smoked banana joints for three weeks straight. By May, they had determined what many people had already discovered first hand: smoking bananas did not get you high. > A recipe for turning banana peels into a drug was included in the book that sparked a million middle-school myths, The Anarchist’s Cookbook, which was published in 1970. In author William Powell’s recipe, which lays out a laborious process of making a paste from the peel scrapings that must then be reduced further into a powder, he claims that bananas contain something called “bananadine,” which is where the fruit supposedly got its psychedelic effects. This, too, was untrue, since bananadine does not exist. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18545508 https://deadspin.com/armageddon-looms-over-the-world-chess-championship-afte-1830671246 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/carlsens-bizarre-decision-has-sent-the-world-chess-championship-to-overtime/ Watched more One Piece. What a great, fun show! Talked to Jay for a while on Signal. Tried to convince him to get a job. Servings: grains 0/6, fruit 4/4, vegetables 6/4, dairy 2/2, meat 4/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: cucumber, apple, tomato, banana, two eggs, coffee Lunch: apple, pear, carrots, tomato, skim milk, coffee, pie Dinner: beer, tomato, hamburgers with avocado, jalapeno, and blue cheese 139/83

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