WTF-Beta

This is ridiculous. Friend of mine that I worked with years ago has some fitness tracking collar for his golden retriever. And it apparently connects to Strava.

Siena (spelled sienna in older English texts) is a town in Tuscany. That’s where they hold the famous Palio.

That’s the origin of the name of the color - a pigment found in the soil there. Odd they froze the spelling in time for the color, whereas for the city we’ve since dropped the extraneous ‘n’.

I’ve eaten two hard boiled eggs as part of my breakfast for most of my adult life.

@Daniel said:

I've been seeing video after video of USDA Organic labelled fruits and vegetables (bananas, for example) being gassed with industrial chemicals, etc. WTF.

Organic foods can be sprayed with natural pesticides.

Examples commonly applied as sprays include:

• Pyrethrin
  • Usually sprayed directly onto crops for insect control.
• Neem oil
  • Often sprayed as a foliar treatment on leaves.
• Copper sulfate
  • Typically sprayed to prevent fungal diseases.
• Sulfur
  • Often sprayed or dusted onto crops.
• Bacillus thuringiensis
  • Commonly sprayed onto plants so caterpillars ingest it while feeding.

Organic farming is not “no pesticides.” It’s more accurately:

• “restricted-input agriculture,”
• with emphasis on approved natural/biological substances,
• crop rotation,
• soil management,
• and integrated pest management before chemical intervention.

In practice, some organic crops — especially fruits vulnerable to insects or fungus like apples or grapes — may receive multiple spray applications during a season. Conventional farming may use fewer sprays in some cases because certain synthetic pesticides are longer-lasting or more targeted.

@wtg said:

Two California residents are suing Cento Fine Foods, alleging the company engaged in "tomato fraud" by claiming that the tomatoes in one of its canned products are the authentic "San Marzano Certified" version from Italy.

They have an enviable amount of free time.

100 years old today.

Here’s a record no one will ever match:

“He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black-and-white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution.”

Forgot about that place. I used to take the delta shuttle from that terminal to DCA or BOS quite often. It was great. Almost exclusively business travelers who knew what they were doing. Security lines were fast AF.

I kind of thought it had been demolished. But it also explains why I don’t recalll seeing spirit airlines at LGA. They were isolated in their own terminal a cab ride away.

https://x.com/thefigen_/status/2052461816496681279?s=46

Does this shirt make my thymus look too small?

The circle of life.

A glut of fresh peaches this summer then? I’m good with that. I only eat them fresh seasonally as it is.

I still prefer the eastern peaches.

It’s a perfect example of why I quit playing it maybe a year or so ago.

It’s not a logic puzzle or a word game per se. It’s an exercise in trying to guess how one particular man’s mind works. A man whose name I don’t know and who is unimportant to me.

This drives that home.

Love that kitchen!

Mines called Paprika and it was either free or had a one time cost. I’ve had it for years. It converts web based recipes perfectly and downloads a photo.

I had a bunch of bookmarked recipes but I’ve since downloaded them into this app.

@Bernard said:

Short, and sweet. There are quite a lot of dissonances in Chopin.

Link to video

Love it. I’ve thought about picking up that ballade again. It’s been years since I’ve had it in my fingers.

No, no. Spaghetti in chili is heresy.

I think there’s a good chance Don Jr throws his hat in the ring.

Could Vance and Rubio really run against him? (Assuming Trump sr is alive).

What says you? (About the possibility of it happening I mean, I’m pretty sure I know what we all think of Uday and Qusay Trump)

He was a DUI hire.