01 Monday Jun 2020
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A few months from now, green grasshoppers will be jumping everywhere. You can catch them, string them along a stick, and roast them over the fire, dripping sweet-smelling fat into the flames.
(Xia Jia, ‘A hundred ghosts parade tonight’, Clarkesworld, tr. Ken Liu,)
21 Thursday May 2020
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Bonchester is made from Jersey cows’ full fat milk, comes in a cylindrical shape with white coating and yellow interior.
(‘10 most popular Scottish cheeses’, TasteAtlas)
20 Wednesday May 2020
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There was nobody, as I could perceive at first, in the churchyard, or going into it, but the buriers and the fellow that drove the cart, or rather led the horse and cart; but when they came up to the pit they saw a man go to and again, muffled up in a brown Cloak, and making motions with his hands under his cloak, as if he was in great agony, and the buriers immediately gathered about him, supposing he was one of those poor delirious or desperate creatures that used to pretend, as I have said, to bury themselves.
(Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year)
08 Friday May 2020
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It seems, the night before, the dead-cart, as it was called, had been stopped there, and a servant-maid had been brought down to the door dead, and the buriers or bearers, as they were called, put her into the cart, wrapt only in a green rug, and carried her away.
(Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year)
07 Thursday May 2020
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Deputy NSW Premier and Nationals leader John Barilaro thought it would be nice if perhaps he could dump his state responsibilities and have a crack at Canberra’s green leather.
(Annabel Crabbe, ‘ABC Politics’, Fri. 8 May, 2020)
04 Monday May 2020
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That precise order to be taken that the searchers, chirurgeons, keepers, and buriers are not to pass the streets without holding a red rod or wand of three feet in length in their hands, open and evident to be seen, and are not to go into any other house than into their own, or into that whereunto they are directed or sent for; but to forbear and abstain from company, especially when they have been lately used in any such business or attendance.
(Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year)
03 Sunday May 2020
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That every house visited be marked with a red cross of a foot long in the middle of the door, evident to be seen, and with these usual printed words, that is to say, “Lord, have mercy upon us,” to be set close over the same cross, there to continue until lawful opening of the same house.
(Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year)
02 Saturday May 2020
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The master of every house, as soon as any one in his house complaineth, either of blotch or purple, or swelling in any part of his body, or falleth otherwise dangerously sick, without apparent cause of some other disease, shall give knowledge thereof to the examiner of health within two hours after the said sign shall appear.
(Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year)
01 Friday May 2020
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As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactions in the video which I’m a little skeptical of, given that I’ve actually tried them and the animators presumably haven’t.
(Bret Victor, ‘A brief rant on the future of interaction design’)
30 Thursday Apr 2020
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There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me.
(W. Somerset Maugham, Sheppey)
