Author: Tony Dalmyn
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Buttermilk for Baking
Fluid Milk Milk Milk, discussed in a reasonably useful Wikipedia entry, is the milk of dairy cows, processed. The fluid milk used in baking, by commercial bakers and home bakers, in Europe and America is mainly cows’ milk. Milk must be taken to a dairy plant to be processed within hours after being harvested in…
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2023 Rides
My spreadsheet for 2023 is published as a Google Sheet on my Google Drive account. I rode my Cannondale Topstone. I rode 6,638.6 Km. I continued to make notes of maintenance. I continued to lubricate the drive train with paraffin. I changed the tires and tubes during the year. Recovery from surgery in January restricted…
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Podcasts and Podcatchers
Google has been in the process dropping Google Podcasts. It has tried to enrolling users of Google Podcasts in YouTube Music. I did not want to use the YouTube service for anything except streaming video. I started to deal with this before Google Podcastsdisappeared. I deleted Google Podcasts and the BBC App. Google Podcasts was…
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Elevations
Endless I will modify and add to this post. (It is an endless post.) Devices and Technological Garmin Edge 130 elevations My Garmin Edge 130 is an “entry level” GPS device with a barometric altimeter. That model is no longer on the market. A small head unit with a barometer is at and entry level…
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Distances from CRD 3
Endless I moved to NW Esquimalt to the house I refer to as location CRD3 in late June, 2023. I have noted distances from home on the routes I ride often. There are many ways of adding to a ride; I am concentrating on simple routes. This post will be updated without a change in…
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Vic West, CRD 2
I moved to Victoria West in 2020, part of the City of Victoria on the Esquimalt side of the Gorge, west of urban Victoria. As of November 2020, I was north (or west) of the Bay Street Bridge, north of the Johnson Street Bridge, near the Selkirk Trestle. I was few hundred m. west of…
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Covid-19 #3: 2023, Omicron
Continuity This Post This post was updated or republished periodically since January 3, 2023. It was concluded May 6, 2023, when the World Health Organization declared the end of its formal determination that Covid-19 had become a world-wide emergency (Pandemic). It follows earlier posts: Omicron evolved Omicron, Pango lineage B.1.1.529, was discovered in South Africa…
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Escape Collective
Cycling Tips Magazine In my view, CyclingTips was the leading source of information on maintaining and repairing bicyles in 2020, 2021 and 2022. CyclingTips started as an online magazine (web publication in 2008; commercial web publication in 2013). It was published successfully as a web publication, with associated podcasts and other internet content. The Nerd…
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American Republics
American Republics by Alan Taylor is an accessible book for a broad audience by a professional historian. It addresses the period when the U.S.A. expanded to occupy the midwest, the Great Plains, the Southwest and the Pacific Northwest. The book discusses the issues on which many Americans shared the same attitudes. Americans favoured expansion of…
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Woke?
Introduction Evolving Post This post was published in the spring of 2023. It has been amended and edited. Origins & Definitions The Oxford English Dictionary entry for “woke” is: “Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. … Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice.” The Urban Dictionary adds: “Being woke means being aware… knowing what’s going…