Sunday Random

Last Spike? What about the Last Straw of minute obsessive control measures dreamed up by The Man? What about a gracious send-up ? "Do you have a cupboard under your stairs? Have you ever spent the day there? No? Guess what you’re doing today. You may take only the following items: a block of jelly, a tepid hot water bottle, a torch, a map of Spain, three Weetabix biscuits."

• <covid-fatigue alert>The Man commissions Amárach to opinion-survey 1500 people about Coronarama</covid-fatigue alert>. IMO could do much better on the presentation of the results: aaargh: bar-charts; unlabelled axes; distorted axis scales; minute labels; redundant labels etc.
• Go Rutger Bregman [prev]: let's think outside the box and make a New Normal
• Did you ever think about where Leonard Nimoy grew up? He spoke yiddish as a kind?
• Michael Palin on the future: travel less but travel better like Agassiz in his garden
• Fair winds and following seas for SubLt Matthew Pyke
• Let's stay home and send the drone instead? Drugs to IoW.
• You'll live longer if you move to Okinawa.
• Travel? Two men in a Boat. Converted lifeboat going up the fjords of Norway.
• St Noam of Chom indicts all the post-WWII US presidents of war-crimes
• The Great Bubble Barrier: nifty solution to divert and collect plastic crap
• ♫ ♫ ♪♫ ♪ ♪ 𝅘𝅥𝅯
• Heaven is a place on Earth - Matthew Ryan version with 'found footage'.
• Allison Young - We'll meet again.
• Pepple the Pep - Sweet Dreams
• Holly Humberstone = Deep End
• Green Road - And Now I'm Easy
• Lee Marvin - Wandrin' Star

And a Nederlands solution to physical distance dining: