AlanDRitchie
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AlanDRitchie
@alandritchie.bsky.social
Cycling, data and information architecture, books, libraries, food, government information, cats

failed philosopher/failed librarian/basically pleasant bureaucrat

cisgender: he/him/his
Could you get a close enough result by baking a loaf in a large can, like a coffee can? I've heard of this but never actually tried it. You'd get a round loaf but not the longitudinal corrugations.
September 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Not an essay (so I'm afraid not exactly what you're asking for) but there is quite a bit in Adam Becker's More Everything Forever and he ties it in with various other related movements/tendencies.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...
More Everything Forever
This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
And well worth reading — just read it a few months ago.
August 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I'd like a copy. Thank you.
August 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I don't know because I can't find them all to count. I'm pretty sure it's at least six though, definitely if you count the tiny pocket ones
July 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
All three in the course of a single library visit + (4), the one looking out the window at birds, clouds etc. And when I'm 1 I'm busily and silently reading something that isn't what I came to the library for but it's just so interesting I can't help myself.
July 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Having stayed up past my bedtime last night finishing Bury the Lead I'm happy to see this. I've requested it from the library. I hope they're getting lots of copies because I'm #32 in the queue.
May 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Is this part of the new addition/extension on the back? I don't remember this from when I used to spend a lot of time at Robarts (admittedly a long, long time ago.)
March 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Footnote and Index have the best dog names on the entire internet.
February 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Consider Indian food metal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihF...
Bloodywood - Tadka (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Bloodywood
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Don't worry. I've been hunching for way more than forty years and I'm not dead yet. Think of sitting in weird positions as a form of stretching. It's good for you.
January 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I never actually used one but when I was a bike messenger I'd sometimes have to pick them up at CAA. Seeing the people make them was incredible - they were so fast, drawing lines as though they didn't have to think about the routes at all.
January 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Esther Simpson is most known for her work with academics fleeing the Nazis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_...
Esther Simpson - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 15, 2024 at 1:01 AM
I wonder if DND still has the plans for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence... in a dusty filing cabinet. We may need to ready our flying columns for a lightning strike on Grand Falls and Fargo.
Defence Scheme No. 1 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 5, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by AlanDRitchie
I don't think it's contentious to discuss how a huge number of people struggle to integrate enough movement into their daily lives and how regularly pedaling a bike leads to all sorts of physical upsides that on a large scale can have big public-health impacts.
November 25, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Time for winter tires already? Eek! I suppose I should go rummaging in the tire bin.
November 11, 2024 at 7:36 PM