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A blogger woke up to find a glue trap that had been escaped by a rat strong enough to break free, leaving an unknown glue-covered rodent loose somewhere in their home.

Frequent birdies and a Dalí-inspired philosophy of spontaneity and experimentation have driven an evolution in the author’s celebratory birdie dance, which has been shared less often online simply to avoid seeming perpetually on holiday.

A potato chip enthusiast reflects on the overwhelming pace of new novelty chip flavors, including cheese pizza and a complex Hokkaido-inspired seafood cheese pizza with pineapple and ham, tracing the rapid evolution from a Chef’s Signature series through anniversary flavors and a surprising KFC collaboration.

A review of a durian-flavored granola found at the grocery store, noting its sweet caramel-heavy recipe and pleasant durian taste, though the reviewer finds it too sugary for their personal preference.

These are some of the the books I read last year. But this post is about the books I finished reading for the first time in 2020. These are the books I finished reading, for the first time, in 2020.

A trail runner recounts completing a 38 km race through the scenic hills of Chiang Rai, Thailand, describing landscapes of rice paddies, maize, pineapple plantations, and forests, while achieving a personal best of 13th place finish without any falls.

I step away from the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship stimpmeter and clipping volume analysis to show why I suggest that clipping volume data be recorded using the layout from the sheet

A runner in southern Thailand discovers that the mysterious primordial roaring sounds heard from his balcony during a week of increasingly intense tropical rainfall were made by a small herd of elephants—up to five, including two large tuskers—that had taken up residence in the forest park directly behind his house.

A bag of Pizza Hut cheese pizza-flavored chips spotted at 7-Eleven prompts reflection on how a mild, universally appealing flavor like plain cheese could serve as an entry point that leads snackers toward bolder, more adventurous chip flavors.

In the last episode, I showed how R packages—also called libraries—can be loaded into the working environment. These packages contain useful functions. One that I use all the time is the summarise function in the dplyr package.