Notices by Carl Malamud (carlmalamud@official.resource.org)

@lzg I was just talking with a friend who is also a busy important woman like you and she was explaining Cheetos to me.

My fellow Americans.

WTF?

Today’s harvest is limes, tomato, Thai chili, and a boatload of Kalamata olives.

Pomegranate chutney recipe. Go to front yard, get pomegranates. Put saffron and hibiscus into tahini. Put tahini, beets in blender. Add salt and red chili pickle to the seeds. Put the seeds in the blender. Hit the overdrive button.

Went shopping today. Bought 11 PDF files for $975 from the American Boat and Yacht Counsel. They were very shiny edicts of government, couldn't help myself.

Performed puja at the scanning center. Happy dasara. Everybody dressed up in their finest. ht @omshivaprakesh

As it is the 9th day of the bright half of the moon’s cycle tomorrow is Ayudha Puja. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayudha_Puja Consecration of buses, cars, buildings, computers, mobile phones and other modern weapons of warfare has begun.

Make sure you log into Internet Archive and change your password. Do it today.

Siddu is Himachali steamed bread, stuffed with spiced walnuts. Served with pomegranate chutney and melted ghee. I am hectoring the staff to learn/steal the recipe, I have pomegranates ripening at home.

Right up the street from the nursery is the motorcycle helmet superstore.

Solar-powered roadside nursery on the sidewalk near the racecourse.

WIRED has a great profile of Mr. Fezziwig ( aka @brewsterkahle ) https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-memory-wayback-machine-lawsuits/

I am in receipt of 7.5kg of pickles from India. My TGIF celebration. Will decant them over the weekend. Ht @omshivaprakash

Sorry, the Hindu piece is paywalled. Here's Bangalore Times: https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/gandhis-teachings-a-click-closer/articleshow/112769155.cms?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHVeDR8_8cTDhn94AUU2Cuxor_r7Tm44srgK9X3pSoRwNispZnoN_nHDL9w_aem_6U95nx9LtG8O31rKwOGg4A

Today's Hindu has reporting from last night's event. https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/11700-books-at-gandhi-smaraka-nidhi-digitised/article68566505.ece

Going to see the real Bangalore today. Will spend the bulk of the day sitting in traffic.

Happy Independence Day!

Great piece about the incredibly bad so-called "PRO Codes Act" in Techdirt. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/23/congress-wants-to-let-private-companies-own-the-law/ When I get queries from the press, my position is that they named this damned bill after me, and this is therefore a bill of attainder. I am "PRO." Seriously. :) ht @mmasnick

It appears that the only thing on the telly tonight is two octogenarians mud wrestling, so I guess that's what I'm going to watch. They really ought to get some younger contestants for these shows.

Then, something clicked. I called the purser over and told him I had been in the same plane coming in. He was doubtful (what are the chances!) but went and checked. When he came back I asked him “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”

Sure enough, we hit cruising altitude and it was working fine. I told the purser I’d send him my bill.