Sunday Miscellany 20 Jan 19

This A is for 'Orses, B is for bogwit trope can be constraining and I'm accumulating a bunch of other interesting-to-me links so I'll dump them out here-and-now before I go to Mass.

• Here's my 2019 sofa project: watching an old steel trawler being made sea-worthy. Part 2.
• Converting a double-decker bus to a holiday cottage
• Converting 17m trawler MV Smiling Morn into artist's studio
• Portsmouth NH to Labrador in a Cessna:  Flight Blogger Matt Guthmiller (who circumnavigated the globe solo) hitches a ride with a couple of guys on a round-the-world epic.
• Why It's Almost Impossible to Ride a Bike 60 Kilometers in One Hour WIRED - it's the build up of lactic acid, it's the technology of air-resistance, it's genetics.
• A different bike challenge; Lael Wilcox Races the Navad 1000 Across Switzerland
• Ed Pratt unicycles across China! Sweet, optimistic.
• Well 'ard: Jasmin Paris has just run the Pennine Way 425 km in 83 hours.
• Bertinet bakes bread in Bath: it's a combination of gallic shrugs and slappin' about that knocks a wet dough into shape
• Hotshots of the forest service: they go in where normal people would stay in the frying pan.
• Inis Meáin - A Journey to a Connected World
• Milling Lumber Alaska 
• Whisky in Scotland at Springbank Distillery. [prev] A different view / narrative on the process.
• Chefs and folks taste Pretentious Food Products
• Music: Family of the year sing Hero.
• Grandma's potato salad. If Grandma ever existed, she is long dead but her recipe lives on and scales up.
• BM Curator’s Corner Irvine Finkel on Cuneiform
• Shrews Blarina and mice Mus navigate a maze
• Borrrders, exclaves, enclaves
• Two years ago I wrote about The Indus Valley and its mysterious script
• Here's a recent article on the same theme: noting a $10,000 prize