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

Close encounters

Whaaaa's happenin'?

• Close encounters: Spielberg communicating through mumusic & dadputers 
• Close encounters: Pachelbel goes Tango
• GO PRESS: Jasmin Paris [prev] cracks the Barkley [multiprev] with 100 secs / 60 hours to spare.
• Tim Harford gives side-eye to F v M advantage in ultra-races
  
• Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds, Michael Nyman 
• Dogs even better
  
• Glaciation left toponyms behind
• Irish geog? The Columban Way zigzags across Co Carlow
  
• TCD wringing its hands over George “Slaver” Berkeley Library
• Irish Medical Supply chain hostage to globalization.
  
• Math: Strategy playing Risk
  
• Terry joins the UK navy to put some meat on his bones - and get a haircut
• Great British grommets  . . . cable-sleeves plugs bungs bushes washers feet grips discs ferrules edging-strips 
• Great British Shitpipes: Thames Tideway Tunnel 
• shorts: B1M exec summ
• Great British Crusties: Marcus "yurt" Tribe fought off The Man 20 years ago . Today he's growing old with his 'shrooms
• Great British 🥟rusties: oggies. 
• Great British Colonies: Singapore has more ready-to-go tanks than the Brits
• Great British APCs: rescued GKN Sankey FV432 spoiler: engine does turn over
  

P peppa pig

P for Pexas P for Pennessee

• Paris, Jasmin [prev] has been [finally] picked up at MeFi - interesting commentary
• Pratt, Ed [prev] breaks his unicycle in Turkey . . . and gets it fixed.
• P p p pick up a penguin <1970s nostalgia alert>
• Real penguins <leopard seal alert> don't be first in the water
• Pele denied by Gordon Banks [d. 12/02/2019] 1970 World Cup
• Poppins hammered out on Pianner
• Pachelbel's Canon at Penn State hated by Rob Paravonian
• Pulp - Common People
• Pilolobus go biological 14m
• go silhouette with Ellen dG 3m
• π 3.1415926
• my mnemonic: how . I want a drink alcoholic of course . . . 
• For first 100 digits you need a song by Andrew Huang
• memorising more digits . . . 70,000?
• history of π by Simon Clark [prev]
• Srinivasa Ramanujan makes his play
• Euler's identity e^πi + 1 = 0
• Estimating π from random numbers through Euler's solution to The Basel Problem
• Palace of Memory with Joshua Foer - Bloboprev
• Pseudorandom numbers - the endgame for Feigenbaum's Constant 4.669201609...
• Pyrotechnics with Colin Furze -firing a truckful of rockets at a truckful of rockets
• Peter Ward scourge of the Damp Wally and Wally Builder