Friday Links: German Expression, Knife Sharpening, a Recipe, and Atlanta

I know that the principles of this knife sharpener are sound, I don't know if this version works well. At this price I'm tempted to try. A company called "Wasabi" has been selling the same thing at a multiple of this price.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002806278575.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.100009.1.6013e215hW2M1i&gps-id=pcDetailLeftTopSell&scm=1007.13482.271138.0&scm_id=1007.13482.271138.0&scm-url=1007.13482.271138.0&pvid=5946f051-089f-46be-8974-ac65ec5f40bc&_t=gps-id:pcDetailLeftTopSell,scm-url:1007.13482.271138.0,pvid:5946f051-089f-46be-8974-ac65ec5f40bc,tpp_buckets:668%232846%238108%231977&pdp_ext_f=%257B%2522sku_id%2522%253A%252212000025558963981%2522%252C%2522sceneId%2522%253A%25223482%2522%257D&pdp_pi=-1%253B30.8%253B-1%253B-1%2540salePrice%253BUSD%253Brecommend-recommend

A varenyky recipe. I think this is too much sour cream but I haven't tried it yet. Let me know if you do!

https://www.allthingsukrainian.com/Recipe/Varenyky/VarenykyRecipe.html

Did you know? One German near-equivalent to "painting the town red" is [literally] "letting the sow out."

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/die_Sau_rauslassen

Here are some good local writers and reporters making their suggestions for improving Atlanta. I am in strong agreement with Andisheh's.

https://austinlouisray.com/#/how-id-fix-atlanta/

Friday Links: Some Raw Climate Data, a New Art Gallery, BWCA Trip Planning

 Weather averages for Tomahawk, Wisconsin, 1980 - 2010.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/orders/cdo/2691475.pdf

 

The art gallery  of my retired colleague Tom Zarilli:

https://gallery378.com/about/

A good site with resources for planning BWCA (and other) canoe trips:

https://www.paddleplanner.com/default.aspx

Friday Links: About Tabs, Citizen Science in ATL, MEI Packs, Wood-Fired Ovens

 First, a tab about tabs and tabbing:

https://dirt.substack.com/p/dirt-the-season-of-tabs?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzI5NzkwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozOTUwMzAxOSwiXyI6ImxhdlFlIiwiaWF0IjoxNjI3OTA5ODYyLCJleHAiOjE2Mjc5MTM0NjIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMzIxODciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.64QlW_nl-AdQCVALWma1__jJDvrWBuQCExTjM9yjI00

(Some of our clutter is there because it's stuff that reminds us of who we want to be.)

An opportunity to do citizen science here in Atlanta:

https://urbanheatatl.org/

MEI makes the Voyageur, my favorite carry-on with backpack straps. I have ordered these as gifts several times and gotten excellent feedback each time:

https://www.meipacks.com/collections/carry-ons/products/deluxe-voyageur-new?variant=29110618751056

An old-school website on old-school woodfired ovens:

https://www.traditionaloven.com/

Georgia Music Show on WRAS

Last night on the way home from class, I had the radio tuned to WRAS, because they still let the college kids run it at night.

Tuesday from 8 - 10 is the Georgia Music Show. Last night, for the first time I know of, they featured some jazz by Georgia artists. Here are two I think are worth sharing:

Larry Wilson:  Our Thing

Stephen Cox: Transitions


The name I give in each case above is the album name; track names linked to vary.

The track played on WRAS following the Larry Wilson number is also worth sharing, and I didn't catch the name. If I learn that, I'll edit the post to include it.

The story of WRAS is . . . complicated. When I arrived in Georgia 21 years ago, Album 88 was one of my first signs that I could make a home here. It seemed to be the only place on the radio dial that wasn't fully corporatized and programmed into utterly uniform blandness. (WREK's signal didn't make it out that far back then, and WRFG was just talk, talk, talk.) Then Georgia State helped Georgia Public Broadcasting take it away from the students. There was wailing, gnashing of teeth, protesting, etc. but in the end . . . let me just say Bill Nigut has a lot to answer for.