Weeknotes 19

I followed Andy Baio’s recommendation and enjoyed listening to Reply All’s “The Case of the Missing Hit”. To avoid spoiling anything, I won’t say any more but it’s a good one.

Despite the current climate of hand washing and sneezing into elbows, I’ve managed to catch a cough. NHS 111 reassures me it is nothing more and I have been consuming a record number of lemons in the form of hot drinks. The timing is unfortunate but at least I don’t need to worry about scurvy.

Jean reminded me that the second season of “Ugly Delicious” is now on Netflix.

I loved the first season for exploring the complicated notion of “authenticity” in food and its related sociopolitical baggage. While waiting for more, I tried to watch “Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner” (also starring David Chang) but the first episode—where Chang gets high with his celebrity friend Seth Rogen—put me off. Thankfully, the first episode of the new season centres on Chang as a nervous dad-to-be so I’m hooked once more.

From Chang’s Instagram, I discovered there is ritual called “Zhuazhou” where a child picks an object that forecasts their future. I’m now planning to perform this ritual with C, placing before him a keyboard, a sword and a plastic dough scraper.

We successfully completed the 2,000 year old problem of moving C into his own room and so were finally in the market for some sort of baby monitor. As a real Internet of Things sceptic, I was adamant that we buy no device with the word “Smart” in its name. Thankfully, we bought the decidedly dumb BT Audio Baby Monitor 400 and it is wonderful in its simplicity.