Barnaby Walters • Notes

✅ got up early
✅ prepared for camping, musicing and dancing
✅ watered plants
✅ fed pigs
✅ ate breakfast
✅ proofread potential Nature article, including the example phrase “the supernatural soup manifested itself in a bowl”
✅ rolled tyres around
✅ showed mill-mate how to operate the pump
✅ organised more food

can we pleeeasse go to klangrauschtreffen now

#pigupdate we learned that pig is, botanically, a pumpkin

Nice memories of playing with Steve, Katy, Nick and Fynn in Hamburg last month:

https://youtu.be/Nc_7j8NfQts

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Ben Werdmüller: I've been deaf in one ear for the last week or two. Should I be worried y/n

@benwerd probably time for an ear irrigation! They’re super fun and afterwards you can hear EVERYTHING.

In a week’s time Philipp and I and Duo Zeller/Suchanek play for dancing in Haus der Sinne, Berlin. There’s even a beginner’s dance course at 19:00 before the concert! Bring your friends, enemies, associates, accomplices, acquaintences and so on.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1276751069008684/

#pigupdate Pigs: 1, Japanese Knotweed: 0. On to round two, in a new part of the garden

#pigupdate: my reluctant, hungry jogging buddies

#pigupdate

New music from Solarference! Not only amazingly innovative sounds but solid artistic and cultural goals:

“…songs that carry a collective theme of freedom: freedom from the constraints of relationships, gender, poverty, imprisonment and working conditions.”

Sounds good to me. Go support them on indiegogo! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solarference-locks-bolts-album

Quite sure I’m dreaming, nobody wake me up please.

#wikipedia SVG of ~~the week~~ eternity: English Unit Lengths:

MARVEL AT OUR CULTURE

Edit: more information about Ramsden’s Chains and Gunter’s chains on ramsden.info, “the gateway to all things Ramsden”

Edits! Iceland-specific info about Ells and hand measurement diagram

Shaftment (palm and extended thumb) about 2 palms or 6 inches
Hand (In English, a “Hand” or “Handbreadth” is commonly used to represent the width of the palm, sometimes including the thumb when closed against the palm.) about 4 inches
Palm (In English, a "Palm" is commonly used to represent four fingers held together, which is slightly less than the true width of the palm at the knuckles.) about 3 inches or 4 fingers
Span (from little finger tip to thumb tip) about 3 palms, 9 inches or 12 fingers
Finger (or fingerbreadth) about 3/4 inch or 1/16 foot
Digit (In English, “digit” and “finger” are used to represent the width of a finger. However, the value of the digit is slightly less than the value of the finger.)
Thumb (not indicated) about 1 inch or 1/12 foot

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Aaron Parecki: Awesome! The IANA link rel registry now includes the @W3C "webmention"! http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml

@aaronpk so are you still planning to blog about the process?

#TIL about Rat Park addiction research via Jules Porter and this comic by Stuart Mcmillen.

“What if the difference between not being addicted and being addicted was the difference between seeing the world as your park and seeing the world as your cage?”

I can’t help but think this applies to so many more issues than just substance addiction — depression, for example. Perhaps understanding other things which fit this pattern as forms of addiction is a good world-understanding lens.