Week 263: hotel charlie bravo

Just a bit of work. Public transport data continues to reveal new layers of things to learn and unlearn, we continue to plumb new depths. ~

I made some QR code stickers a few weeks ago. Maybe I won’t, or maybe I will write something about the thought that went into that: of course I didn’t want to use a URL shortening service, but still I took care to the make the URLs a bit shorter by other means, which made the QR codes less dense and easier to read, for the small price of the extra complication of having a redirect. There, I’ve mostly covered it, there’s not a lot to it.

We tried the local small vendor of Instagrammable vast sandwiches – New York style, or should I say new yuck‽ No, I’m glad they were doing a roaring trade. The gimmick is the sandwiches are way over-filled, making them horribly difficult to eat – if Montagu’s practical original sandwich is like Issigonis’s original Mini, these are like the modern Mini Countryman – and of course I’d prefer it if they were sensible and used a more sensible amount of filling. But if they did that, there’d be less social media buzz and they’d be much less successful.

Hot cross buns 2024. They tasted a bit plain – not enough spices or salt, and the wrong kind of sugar – and as ever the crosses looked like Guy Fawkes had drawn them. But a nice texture, actually the best texture yet, and a nice conduit for marmalade, jam, things of that nature.

Here are the 2021 and 2022 HCBs – let’s say they’re from far enough in the past that I don’t feel ashamed. I searched for “bread” in Apple Photos and aren’t modern computers brilliant? AI, is that AI?

Coughing my tits off.