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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 11/07/2026

/tugs nervously at collar

photograph of a flyer on a telephone pole reading
DHCP SERVER
Please take an IP address below to start your DHCP lease. The subnetmask is conveniently provided in slash and dot-decimal notation

with tags at the bottom containing IP addresses such as
203.0.113.172/24
255.255.255.0

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 01/07/2026

They have a chunk of it at the memorial park in Cashmere, WA but it’s not nearly as weird as the one in Granger that has fake dinosaurs looking at it

photograph of a fake dinosaur looking at a memorial

Screenshot of street view of a fake dinosaur looking at a memorial

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 08/06/2026

I mean... yes? Exactly that.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 05/05/2026

this winter was so mild that my sage overwintered and is now enormous, and producing incredible flowers. I don't think I've ever seen a sage flower before

photograph of a large sage plant with purple flowers

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 19/04/2026

Reginald Barclay-ass Duncan

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

by now the beef stock has been at 15 bar for 90 minutes, so you turn off the heat, let it naturally vent, then fill your sink with ice water and strain it into a bowl while you think about how you don’t have enough room in the fridge to chill it overnight like you need to. I’m sure it will be fine.

photograph of a big bowl of beef stock chilling in a sink full of ice water

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

Now they’re all cooked. I also put a little slice of lemon in there because it tastes nice and will keep anything from browning. Now cook all the scraps from the decorative vegetable cutting. You ate the chicken oysters, it’s only fair that you deal with the scraps. That’s for your bowl.

photograph of cooked vegetables next to a pot with the scraps from the vegetable cutting on the stove.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

don’t mess with the onion, it’s bad luck. The celery is moons. The squash is squash. The daikon is the leaves of spring. The carrot is flowers (try not to think about Neutral Milk Hotel). Get a pot going, lightly salted water, and a little honey and thyme. You’re going to cook them individually.

photograph of vegetables on a cutting board in various shapes as referenced in the post

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

you should have the nicer bits from the mirepoix, and some acorn squash (you wanted kabocha, oh well) and daikon. Since there’s no rush, go find your decorative vegetable cutters and make it a little weird. You’re cooking for sick people, and you should put optimism and joy into the food for them.

photograph of diced onion, carrots and celery, and a piece of daikon radish and squash on a cutting board

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

shred it by hand. Save a few big pieces for the kiddo in case he’s feeling picky later, and if the legs included the oysters (they should have) put those on a weird plate and eat them. They’re the chef’s treat. The beef stock is still going in the pressure cooker, so now we’ll make the vegetables.

photograph of four vessels, anticlockwise from top right containing some big chunks of chicken, a bunch of of shredded chicken, two small pieces of chicken, and scraps

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

chicken’s done, pull it out to cool a bit so you can shred it, and strain the rest into a smaller pot. In a perfect world (this isn’t) you might chill it in an ice bath, fridge it overnight, but we’ll just skim. You can wait a bit, everyone’s napping anyways. Keep an eye on the pressure cooker.

photograph of cooked chicken legs in a bowl next to a glass pot of cloudy stock

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

the chicken’s almost at temp. Put the beef bones and all of their fat and scrapings (you’ll de-fat it later) in your pressure cooker with your stock stuff (leek greens, carrot & celery, garlic, thyme, parsley, peppercorns, and a bay leaf) — not too much — cover with cold water and start it heating

photograph of a pressure cooker full of bones and vegetables

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

(but actually you just remembered that as long as you’re cooking up soup, you have a bunch of beef shank bones in the deep freeze, so you decide to make beef stock as well to have later in the week. Set your oven to Gas Mark 5 and put them in there. No need for oil, they’re self-oiling)

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

now put the legs back in along with a quart of stock you made and froze awhile back (it was a Costco rotisserie carcass, leek greens, mirepoix, pepper, thyme, bay, and parsley). There will be an interregnum in this thread while we simmer it until the legs are tender enough to shred

photograph of chicken legs and mirepoix cooking in broth in a large pot on the stove

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

they’ll cook through later. Pull ‘em out and add your mirepoix from the scraps of what you’ll add to the finished product. We don’t need much because these were all in the stock we made and more will end up in it. Then deglaze and scrape with some lemon juice and clarified butter

photograph of a mirepoix in a large pan on the stove

photograph of a lemon and some butter on a wooden cutting board

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/04/2026

it’s Spring Sick and you’re the least sick person in your household, so it’s time to make chicken soup for everybody. First, you’re gonna brown a couple bone-in skin-on legs in a big pan

photograph of two large chicken legs browning in a pan on the stove

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 12/04/2026

I have no problem with this (it's a reshipper that I used 3.5 years ago IIRC) but I just like the phrasing of the subject line

screenshot of an email with subject line:

Your account will be destroyed

and body:

Dear Jonah,

You have an account with us (REDACTED) that has not been used for some time. For privacy reasons, we do not store our customers' data longer than necessary and therefore your account will be deleted as of 2026-05-09.

This means that you will no longer have access to invoices or other information.

Do you want to keep your account? Then click on the button below or follow this link

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 11/04/2026

Odysseus: we now set out in our Odyssey Sailor: what's an odyssey? Odysseus: a family-focused minivan known for its versatile interior

screenshot of a search for Argo with photos of a car and text reading:

The Argo was the legendary ship in Greek mythology that carried Jason and the Argonauts on their quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece from Colchis. Built with the help of the goddess Athena, the ship was a unique and magical vessel that could speak and offer prophecies to its crew. The tale of the Argo and its journey is a significant epic in Greek literature, most notably detailed in the poem Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes. After successfully returning to lolcos, the ship was dedicated to Poseidon and later transformed into the constellation Argo Navis.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 30/03/2026

get in loser, we’re decorating eggs

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 30/03/2026

excuse me I am trying to read my book and go to sleep in peace

photograph of two cats just laying all over me as I am trying to go to bed

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 24/03/2026

Meatball investigates Neuschwanstein Castle

photograph of a gray cat stepping around a Lego build of Neuschwanstein Castle

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 02/03/2026

Took the kid to the Lego bulk bins today and he found maybe the two creepiest BeatBits tiles. He's now made a "television" that he's using to identify where in the house ghosts may be haunting doors.

photograph of two lego BeatBits tiles:
"Touch Harmony", a spaceman-like helmet with a colorful explosion within and incoherent writing above
and "Spooky Filter", a VHS-like illustation of a ghost with a door in the background and some incoherent writing

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 22/02/2026

My coworker left me a datacenter surprise

photograph of a Lego minifig reading “Moby Brick” sitting on a device in a datacenter rack

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 19/02/2026

And the strict master Death bids them dance. He wants them to hold hands and to tread the dance in a long line.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 15/02/2026

Everyone should go and immediately read the subsection Property under the Themes heading in the Wuthering Heights wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wutheri...

screenshot of text reading:
Each of the four bodies of English property law could assure a lifetime income to support a widow out of their husband's estate; 'freebench' from copyhold land in manorial law, 'reasonable parts' from moveables in ecclesiastical law, 'jointure' from a marriage settlement in equity, and 'dower' from freehold land in common law. In administering a deceased's estate these rights in widowhood took piority over unsecured creditors, or stipulations in the will. Dower and jointure functioned as legal alternatives; a widow without a jointure could always claim dower (assuming her husband owned real property), though at this date, as almost all propertied daughters married with a settlement, they would expect jointure rather than dower in widowhood.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 13/02/2026

Volcán de Fuego from the edge of Acatenango, less than a mile away

photograph of an erupting volcano with city lights and stars in the background

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 09/02/2026

ok fine I’ll climb the other one

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 01/02/2026

giving my small son unfettered access to the Lego has resulted in seraphim, please advise

photograph of a small lego structure consisting of a circle mounted at the base, which has an eye on it, with heads at 90, 180, and 270 degrees from the base, with a central eye and eight more eyes placed symmetrically around)

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 31/01/2026

big deal, I can do that

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 29/01/2026

A few substitutions, a few missing pieces. Rebuilding my childhood Lego sets

photograph of two built Lego sets, Forbidden Island and Caribbean Clipper

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 20/01/2026

North, in Providence. Opened in a formerly-loved space, kept it, served some of the most complex but straightforward food I've ever eaten. The "Almost Boneless Whole Fried Chicken" is one of the best presentations I've ever had in my life. I think about it all the time.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 16/01/2026

He also wrote a 150-page book about the entire process of inventing and marketing it, which we have on @archive.org! archive.org/details/anat...

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 16/01/2026

MOST T.V. SETS ON TODAY’S MARKET ARE ALWAYS ON AND ARE ACTIVATED BY AN ELECTRONIC BEAM. SINCE THE T.V. IS ON BUT ASLEEP, THE COMPONENTS ARE WIDE AWAKE.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 11/01/2026

I’m at the Hot Dish Competition

Photograph of hot dish with label reading:
White Castle Breakfast Casserole
Sliders, onion, tater tots, cheese, jalapeno, bacon, milk, butter, red pepper, Gigantic IPA

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 28/12/2025

to celebrate his fifth birthday we experimented with Barry Lyndon-style illumination

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 25/12/2025

here pictured with our charcutertree

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 25/12/2025

My father has outdone himself in the realm of whaling-themed serveware

photograph of a serving board made from a tree round with a wooden whale tail looming above

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 24/12/2025

If you're looking for a nice fireplace video tonight, or really anytime, we have an excellent three-hour fire with lots of crackling on @archive.org -- streaming, or to download for later: archive.org/details/TheB...

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 22/12/2025

also that whole part of Norway is possibly the most beautiful places in the world so, recommended, regardless of your feelings about Sundbåten specifically

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 22/12/2025

the machine translation of the tracklist of the CD of the songs from the play based on the kid's book series about "the world's oldest motorized regular public transport system in continuous service" (Kristiansund's Sundbåten, which I do recommend you ride if you are ever in Kristiansund)

screenshot of text reading:
Tracklist
1 Seven is a sun boat boy
2 It bubbled like red soda in the stomach
3 The sun shines inside your island
4 Muck day
5 Oh, destroy the love
6 Pretend that you are playing a pretend game.
7 I sat on top of the hill and saw

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 19/12/2025

when you're doing Networking™

screenshot of an ASCII-art eye diagram of one lane of a DP-DQPSK modulated 100G coherent signal

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 15/12/2025

The kid has developed a serious interest in carnivorous plants so I picked up a few easy ones. Now, to lure bugs into my home, I guess?

photograph of a sundew, a t-form sundew, and a nepenthes in pots on a windowsill

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 12/12/2025

New on Flickr Commons -- magic lantern slides from meteorologist and theosophist Clement Lindley Wragge, who invented naming tropical storms web.archive.org/web/20171118...

screenshot of text reading:

14. When did the naming of cyclones begin?

The convention of naming Australian tropical cyclones began in 1964. The first Western Australian named cyclone was Bessie that formed on 6 January 1964. Female names were used exclusively until the current convention of alternating male and female names commenced in 1975.

The naming of weather systems in Australia began much earlier than the 1960s, however. The flamboyant Clement Wragge, Government meteorologist in Queensland from 1887 until 1902, initiated the practice by naming weather systems after anything from mythological creatures to politicians who may have annoyed him.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 02/12/2025

And every year since and hence, the Gravy Sub will emerge at the turning of fall to winter to remind us that all is folly. Also it is incredibly top-heavy and the level of the pouring spout is far below the depth of the internal chamber.

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