Interesting Links for 26-01-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Justin Roiland: Rick and Morty creator and star dropped by Adult Swim (over assault charges)

(tags:USA assault tv )

2. Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots (what happens when you train an AI on all the text a person leaves behind)

(tags:ai writing communication death memory viaPatrickHadfield )

3. A lovely remembrance of a dying friend, and the last things he wanted to do.

(tags:archaeology death viaDanielDWilliam )

4. Edinburgh's iconic Granton gas holder to be transformed into new city park

(tags:Edinburgh gas park )

5. Clearly the best console gaming setup ever

(tags:gaming consoles video impressive )

6. Facebook follows Twitter in un-banning Donald Trump ahead of 2024 presidential bid, Nick Clegg confirms

(tags:Facebook politics USA )

7. What time is it on the moon?

(tags:time moon physics )

8. Christian decline UK: How it's measured and what it means

(tags:religion uk census demographics )

9. The UK's Biggest Cooking Myths

(tags:uk cooking myths )

Comments

[anna_wing]

Properly cooked rice should have no water left over.

[calimac]

Yeah, I was going to say the same. What do you need to drain rice for? When I cook it, it absorbs all the water.

Similarly, adding milk to scrambled eggs only makes them runny if you add too much. And don't boil vegetables, steam them. Is that the key to British cooking as expressed in this article: too much liquid?

[fanf]

What is this milk in scrambled eggs thing? If you think the eggs need some milk, you didn’t put enough butter in them!

Same goes for mashed potato, if you think you put too much butter in it, give it a good beating and it will absorb the butter and become more delicious. I have not tried going much above 20%

[calimac]

A moderate amount of butter. Too much becomes a lake the eggs swim in. And just a dollop of milk, no more.

[bens_dad]

7. The article bearly mentions "time" as I think of it: what we call "time of day" here on earth.

[andrewducker]

The time they mention that everything is linked to (UTC), is the time, to within about a second, at Greenwich (not accounting for summer time). Or do you mean things like "morning", "afternoon", etc? That'll be trickier, as a "day" on the moon is about 29 and a half days.

[bens_dad]

Yes, I was thinking of things like "morning" and "afternoon".
Yes, they are tricky with the four+ week day, and there are no months on the Moon, since the Earth stays in the same place in the sky.

I suppose I was thinking that "what time is it on the Moon ?" is like "what time is it in Edinburgh ?", but it is not; it is like "what time is it on Earth ?"

At least the Prime Meridian on the Moon (its Greenwich) is easy to define: the meridian through the point where the earth is overhead. No political fighting over that, at least until the Moon people want independence from Earth.

[melchar]

I envy that gaming set-up SO much. =sighs=

[andrewducker]

Get to it! How hard can it be?

[melchar]

If only! Cost is a big part of the lack, alas.

But envy? Envy I can do. ^_^