Thursday, July 26, 2018

@15:00, 7/25/18

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1
Crosswords & Games

Mel Rosen (1941 — 2018)

A loss in the crossword family.

I will deal with my dental problems.

Time is an independent variable for a composer of puzzles.

2
Science

Worker Ants: You Could Have Been Queens

Whether an ant becomes a worker or colony royalty may depend on insulin metabolism.

Epigenetic mechanisms make sense.

3
Books

10 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The public library is not as quick as the New York Times.
I may read what ends on the library shelves.

4
Food

The Hand Roll as Common Pleasure

At Daigo Hand Roll Bar in Downtown Brooklyn, each roll is made to order with generosity, exactitude and supple, barely anointed fish.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/dining/daigo-hand-roll-review.html

Fine by me.
As convenient.

5
Smarter Living

How to Revive a Friendship

It can be disorienting to feel you’re back at square one with a person you already have a shared history with. Here’s some help.

Good advice.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

6
Food

At Daigo Hand Roll Bar, Sushi Looks to Its Humble, Glorious Roots

The chef Masanobu Ishikura is vigilant about seafood at this stand in DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn, where almost every hand roll is less than $10.

I don't know what to feed the cat.

7
Real Estate

How Big Is an Acre, Anyway?

If you are accustomed to thinking of your living space in square feet, it can be hard to envision how much land comes with a home outside the city.

I know and so do you.

I have been thinking about ten.  More if there are horses.

8
Business Day

The Ordinary License Plate’s Days May Be Numbered

Companies are trying out ways to digitize the traditional metal version, eliminating the need for stickers to mark it as up to date. The screen could also be used for advertising or alerts.

Digitizing the plate is a bad idea.
The plate is a passive identifier.
The registration could be on a server usefully.
James Bond had a variable number plate and a license to kill.


Technology

Ways to Lighten Your Data Load

A browser that’s set to compress or block images, ads and other bandwidth-hogging parts of a web page can save you megabytes.

Delete after reading works as does storing immages on a remote server.
using the forget recent history button in FireFox deletes cookies and pages.  Use the bookmarks for long term memory.

10
Business Day

White House Bars CNN Reporter From Presidential Event

Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Bill Shine scolded Kaitlan Collins after she asked President Trump about Michael Cohen during an Oval Office photo-op.

The Trump administration has bad press and public relations.

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