I adjusted the prompt that generates example sentences for my Spanish vocabulary Anki deck so that it intermittently tries to include interesting facts in the cards, and it has worked out marvelously.

Apparently sperm whales (cachalotes) are the loudest animals in the world.

Traveling to Seattle without renting a car or bringing an umbrella...

Still not sure if I know what constitutes "queso rallado" and whether there is a word for "grated cheese", and now I'm starting to question whether for some people there is an overlap between "grated" and "shredded" cheese in English.

My teacher was like, "rallado is the one you do with parmesan" and then showed a picture like the first one, which, to be fair, also looks like some of the GIS results for "grated cheese", whereas when I think of grated cheese I think of something much finer, like the second one.

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I don't know how long I've seen these signs before realizing the fundamental mismatch between the medium and the intended audience here...

Do they have this specific brand and flavor of yogurt outside of Spain? I think it is basically Oikos Triple Zero, but this particular flavor is super good (it has little chunks of banana in it), and doesn't compare to the banana cream flavor we have in the States.

Apparently if you filter a Danish it turns into a donut, which is something smokers prefer?

"This is not going to be Python 4".

I am taking this as implicit approval of @hugovk's proposal to switch to .

Man, some folks do such a good job with the design of their slides, it makes me want to do better.

Picture is from [Steph Orella Bello](sporella.xyz)'s talk, but there are many other intimidatingly good presentations out there.

By the way for various reasons I happen to have a bunch of Google Open Source swag to give away and nowhere to give it away, so if you are at and want a flashlight, let me know.

Ok, I am traveling to Spain soon, and when I travel I usually bring a bit of protein powder (I put it in cottage cheese or yogurt to add some flavor and texture).

However, I suspect that my usual approach — Ziploc baggies in a freezer bag — might invite, uh... extra scrutiny... at customs (see photo).

Anyone have alternative ideas about how to transport this stuff without creating suspicion? The original packaging won't work because it is very bulky.

Any folks know of a library for drawing pretty-looking, clean boxes arranged in various patterns?

I am looking to make some simple images like this to demonstrate addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc.

Bonus points if it has support for some existing pedagogical framework (e.g. "ten frames").

The Japanese version of Jeopardy! is basically exactly as I expected (though I didn't think they would have more than 3 contestants)

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OK, I bought a used gaming computer so I can run my own ML models locally, so now you get to see what it would look like if Abraham Lincoln had a baby with Chris Evans.

Now, I'm not an expert in , but I think this may mean something slightly different than what says it does...

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