Bedtime. Just before lights out, oldest wrathling looks up, "there's a giant grasshopper on the ceiling". I say, "it is huge must be a female" and lift sharp eyed wrathling to catch and safely remove said giant grasshopper. Wrathling expertly pinches it, turns it over and says "spot on dad, it's a female and soon to be mummy grasshopper! Look the ovipositor is just about to come out and her belly is expanded with eggs." How can these little humans know such minute trivia about completely random things and yet be so completely uninterested in whatever happens in the school classroom?

RT @[email protected]:

In 2016, Leuven made a bold decision: instead of trying to accommodate ever-increasing car traffic, it would change the rules of the road entirely. A decade later, the Dutch-style circulation plan has drastically improved the city’s accessibility, liveability, and public space.🧵

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This is a solid heuristic. Any residential street can be qualified by how well it lends itself to trick or treating. The first time I heard of this was in a throwaway tweet by @acrimonyand (who is one of two who go me onto Twitter back in 2014), the Philosopher Prince of Texas. I even wrote some short fiction about it: https://wrathofgnon.substack.com/p/suddenly-on-halloween

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RT @[email protected]:

Here's a long explanation why you ought never do regression like this:

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Ginnan nuts (the fruit of the gingko tree) are like most nuts bipartite, right, two halves or two ridges. However maybe one in twenty-thirty nuts are tripartite, left, with three distinct ridges due to both of the twin ovules successfully developing. Some consider it good luck to find one.

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First batch of cleaned ginnan nuts, the fruit of the ginkgo trees. Roasted or cooked, they taste a bit like corn or maize, wonderful snacks, or de-shelled, as tempura or grilled on sticks. Possibly the only fruit eaten both by dinosaurs and humans. If you try them for the first time, take care, as they contain a toxin that can cause nerve damage or death if consumed in large quantities. Less than a handful (3-4) is a decent amount for a beginner adult and go up only as you get used to them. The raw fruits contain butyric and hexanoic acids and smell pretty bad. Cleaning them is best done outdoors wearing gloves.

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RT @[email protected]:

Le premier bénéfice qu'on retire d'une origine populaire est de n'avoir aucun respect pour le peuple : le second, de n'avoir aucune peur de la gauche ; le troisième, de n'avoir aucune fascination pour la racaille. — Michel Houellebecq

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Many have asked why the rail and stile (the parts that are not the panels) do not expand and jam the door shut. Excellent question: that is because wood stays almost completely stable along the grain (in length, not more than 0.01%) but expands greatly against the grain (width and thickness, up to 8.00%). By cleverly adapting the direction of the rail and stile parts expansion can be efficiently controlled to a bare minimum.

Traditionally the summer drink of Edo, a Yanagikage (honmirin and shochu with spring water). I have added ice and a leaf of shiso (the sort of minty green jagged leaf you often get with sushi or sashimi). It is too hot to work today.

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Panelled doors wasn't a pretty extra but a clever solution to doors expanding with moisture and warping or jamming shut. Because wood expands and contracts in relation to the ambient air humidity (and also rain etc. if outdoors), the wood panels (not nailed or glued) could move freely inside the groves of the frame. This allowed tight doors that shut very close to the door frame, often mere millimeters or fractions of an inch, giving us ncreased privacy and better acoustics. And they look very charming.

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RT @[email protected]:

Really happy with how this archway turned out, sandwiched between the pilasters with toothing above. That passage will lead up some stairs and out the back through a smaller archway into the residential courtyard of Townsend.

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You have a point. Jaime (@izurietavarea) The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature writes like this and you’re worried about AI generated text? — https://bitter.st/izurietavarea/status/2108550429705675094#m