One of the first things the professor told us to do when I began to formally learn a bit of Python was to install Anaconda, which I dutifully did. Looking back, all we ever used there was Spyder. Only later did I discover the joys of Jupyter, but the joy was short-lived. Once I got the point of using virtual environments, I discovered that my entire setup was just too big a tangle for me to understand. So I uninstalled Anaconda, not for the first time. And after a couple of missteps, Jupyter seemeed to work just fine without it. Then I upgraded my os to Ventura, and many, many things stopped working, including Jupyter.

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Still surprising how quickly a month can go by. Yes, there was a trip away for a week, and that speeds things up, but still, how is already February?

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Being old with a bit of a magpie brain does have occasional compensations, like when some whippersnapper johnny-come-lately gushes Why don’t we just eat grass?.

So can we cut the animal out of the loop and mechanically turn grass into milk?
Yes! Both Imagindairy and Perfect Day are creating...

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RSS is not dead, never has been, but in recognition of renewed interest, I decided to have a go at cleaning up my feeds. Not getting rid of them, because there is absolutely no cost to keeping a feed hanging around just in case it miraculously springs back to life. But tidying up.

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While I was away a friend gave me a copy of The Perfect Loaf, by Maurizio Leo, and very fortunately there was just about enough room in my suitcase to bring it home with me. Over at my baking site I wrote about baking his introductory Simple Sourdough, which proved to be an interesting exercise. M...

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