Vadim Drobinin

iOS Engineer and public speaker


Tuesday Triage

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    Tuesday Triage #167

    The 167th edition featuring Conkers, tejate, and and buttery.

    Tuesday Triage #166

    The 166th edition featuring black currants ban in the USA, Tamagotchi Connection, and Fiji mermaid.

    Tuesday Triage #165

    The 165th edition featuring Tartanry, Farinata, and how to win in rock-paper-scissors.

    Tuesday Triage #164

    The 164th edition featuring sidestroke swimming, ancient popcorn, and Tootsie Pop.

    Tuesday Triage #163

    The 163rd edition featuring Glasgow ice cream wars, Roman “placenta cake”, and Scots language.

    Tuesday Triage #162

    The 162nd edition featuring scrambling, Shit life syndrome, and Rolled Up holiday pay.

    Tuesday Triage #161

    The 161st edition featuring tian op, Rum Cow, and spore prints.

    Tuesday Triage #160

    The 160th edition featuring brose, swimming in Seine, and Japan's first tea tree.

    Tuesday Triage #159

    The 159th edition featuring Ginjinha, rotating windmills, and thornless blackberry.

    Tuesday Triage #158

    The 158th edition featuring an anniversary special edition with highlights throughout three years of the newsletter.

    Tuesday Triage #157

    The 157th edition featuring Visible Speech, poncha, and duck tape.

    Tuesday Triage #156

    The 156th edition featuring Ain Dubai, glass dresses, and the Vinaigrette.

    Tuesday Triage #155

    The 155th edition featuring dangers of tea drinking, Rashomon effect, and Huis Ten Bosch.

    Tuesday Triage #154

    The 154th edition featuring ultrapure water, Page Six, and South Korean age.

    Tuesday Triage #153

    The 153rd edition featuring oil pulling, hammerhead worms, and makgeolli.

    Tuesday Triage #152

    The 152nd edition featuring the pillar box war, trottole, and sunrooms.

    Tuesday Triage #151

    The 151st edition featuring carajillo, Kentish rarebit, and smidgen.

    Tuesday Triage #150

    The 150th edition featuring chieftain haggis, mad honey, and Eel Pie island.

    Tuesday Triage #149

    The 149th edition featuring hickory syrup, the 'smelliest place to live', and ciaralli.

    Tuesday Triage #148

    The 148th edition featuring hay dust in Swiss cheeses, woodpeckers, and fairy butter.

    Tuesday Triage #146

    The 146th edition featuring kaffeost, hunting on Sundays, and the Jewel.

    Tuesday Triage #145

    The 145th edition featuring nom de plume, green tea temperatures, and chess pieces names.

    Tuesday Triage #144

    The 144th edition featuring the Coronation Quiche, Nyotaimori, and origins of nutrition labels.

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    Tuesday Triage #142

    The 142nd edition featuring Brazilian Easter eggs, midcentury American cuisine, and wronger than wrong axiom.

    Tuesday Triage #141

    The 141st edition featuring inaptronyms, Spermaceti, and Karpatka the cake.

    Tuesday Triage #140

    The 140th edition featuring dangers of dark chocolate, DINKWAD, and dim sum etiquette.

    Tuesday Triage #139

    The 139th edition featuring whiskey fungus, Fastest Shed, and the Salmonella-in-eggs controversy.

    Tuesday Triage #138

    The 138th edition featuring sheep worrying, kombucha electronics, and a parkin.

    Tuesday Triage #137

    The 137th edition featuring Toby Jugs, Sous pression, and fungi in figs.

    Tuesday Triage #136

    The 136th edition featuring devilled kidneys, West country, and diastase number.

    Tuesday Triage #134

    The 134th edition featuring weight-loss medication, cinema pickles, and Bola de Berlim.

    Tuesday Triage #133

    The 133rd edition featuring SĂłlarkaffi, spaghetti-tree hoax, and St Mary's bells.

    Tuesday Triage #132

    The 132nd edition featuring Bombini (guess what that is), 365 Knitting Clock, and Victorian myths.

    Tuesday Triage #131

    The 131st edition featuring masak, dishoom, and tofu skin.

    Tuesday Triage #130

    The 130th edition featuring Stone of Scone, bibngka, and Doritos ethymology.

    Tuesday Triage #129

    The 129th edition featuring bullshot, lucky iron fish, and beavers.

    Tuesday Triage #128

    The 128th edition featuring white olives, Royal Albert Hall's roof, and hard sauce.

    Tuesday Triage #127

    The 127th edition featuring Pakistan's ethymology, Lykoi cats, and a manual treadmill.

    Tuesday Triage #126

    The 126th edition featuring Scotch woodcock, ice pancakes, and the Great Glen.

    Tuesday Triage #125

    The 125th edition featuring murder of crows, deep sea sandwiches, and wing walkers.

    Tuesday Triage #124

    The 124th edition featuring Ayahuasca side-effects, the Potato Paradox, and a fake Martin Scorsese movie.

    Tuesday Triage #123

    The 123rd edition featuring blue hour, bedtime procrastination, and bone luge.

    Tuesday Triage #122

    The 122nd edition featuring origins of Carbonara, Abba's SOS, and alcohol-induced blackouts.

    Tuesday Triage #121

    The 121st edition featuring bars in Antarctica, Boova Shenkel, and Beijing time.

    Tuesday Triage #120

    The 120th edition featuring onion snow, walking streetlamps, and Woodcock toasts.

    Tuesday Triage #119

    The 119th edition featuring Bagna cĂ uda, McIntosh, and how to use an ordinary watch as a compass.

    Tuesday Triage #118

    The 118th edition featuring queueing theory, Eierorakel, and nuclear reactors.

    Tuesday Triage #117

    The 117th edition featuring light pillars, MeuniĂšre, and Mirrie Dancers.

    Tuesday Triage #116

    The 116th edition featuring HallgrĂ­mskirkja, God's own country, and jagua.

    Tuesday Triage #115

    The 115th edition featuring Kroppkaka, nippy, and methanol in whisky.

    Tuesday Triage #114

    The 114th edition featuring "soaking", car wheels, and bathroom breaks.

    Tuesday Triage #113

    The 113th edition featuring YKK zippers, red-eye gravy, and Operation Unicorn.

    Tuesday Triage #112

    The 112th edition featuring Turkey Twizzlers, Stracciatella, and osmotolerant yeast.

    Tuesday Triage #111

    The 111th edition featuring swimming in the Thames, Valeriepieris circle, and arrays starting with 0.

    Tuesday Triage #110

    The 110th edition featuring Tutti frutti, Zip files and their passwords, and the oldest republic in the world.

    Tuesday Triage #109

    The 109th edition featuring Pig's Delight, UT1 time, and Preparedness paradox.

    Tuesday Triage #108

    The 108th edition featuring gesti famosi, Ejection Tie club, and a French focaccia.

    Tuesday Triage #107

    The 107th edition featuring Swiss cheese baths, Year 2038 problem, and Disneyland with Death penalty.

    Tuesday Triage #106

    The 106th edition featuring tracklement, bitter almonds, and pitch drop experiment.

    Tuesday Triage #105

    The 105th edition featuring runway numbers, pneumatic clocks, and corn sweat.

    Tuesday Triage #104

    The 104th edition featuring electret, lemonade, and MP's resignation.

    Tuesday Triage #103

    The 103rd edition featuring Gunslinger effect, electric kettles in America, and Tobasco pepper.

    Tuesday Triage #102

    The 102nd edition featuring pizookie, "above the neck" rule, and Apocrypha.

    Tuesday Triage #101

    The 101st edition featuring dark roux, Montreal vs New York bagels, and the truth about dentistry.

    Tuesday Triage #100

    The 100th edition featuring plans for the next 100 editions, and the usual things I enjoyed reading or didn't know last Tuesday.

    Tuesday Triage #99

    The 99th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Asemic writing, Mustazzoli, and Gold diggers.

    Tuesday Triage #98

    The 98th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Dundee cake, jam pennies, and Permian period monument.

    Tuesday Triage #97

    The 97th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Game Boy Sewing machine, Chuan Chuan, and frisson.

    Tuesday Triage #96

    The 96th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Cabbage Patch Kids, Röstigraben, and curling pepperoni.

    Tuesday Triage #95

    The 95th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring baker's dozen, booza, and oxygen candles.

    Tuesday Triage #94

    The 94th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Vie fittizie, Arctic Coke machines, and Chinese finger traps.

    Tuesday Triage #93

    The 93rd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Yaupon the tea, Margaret Thatcher, and Queen Elizabeth.

    Tuesday Triage #92

    The 92nd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring zettelkasten, Chicken of Tomorrow contest, and Sprezzatura.

    Tuesday Triage #91

    The 91st edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring phloem bundles, Pain Suisse, and skyr.

    Tuesday Triage #90

    The 90th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring pressed duck, wigs in South Korea, and albums without a title.

    Tuesday Triage #89

    The 89th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring circus peanuts, GoTopless Day, and Intonarumori.

    Tuesday Triage #88

    The 88th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Jerrycan, hanami, and Gravity Hills.

    Tuesday Triage #87

    The 87th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Molotov bread baskets, Regal stir, and ethical Foie Gras.

    Tuesday Triage #86

    The 86th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Philosophers' ships, zero rupee note, and medieval Photoshop.

    Tuesday Triage #85

    The 85th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Fastelavn, Whopper Sacrifice, and kissing in Middle Ages.

    Tuesday Triage #84

    The 84th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Peter Pan collars, graffiti mobili, and amalgam.

    Tuesday Triage #83

    The 83rd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Escher sentences, lasagna cells, and Valentine’s meat juice.

    Tuesday Triage #82

    The 82nd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring wine bricks, Candlemas, and Canadian traveller problem.

    Tuesday Triage #81

    The 81st edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Tulumba, increasing chart emoji, and Jersey kale.

    Tuesday Triage #80

    The 80th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring fruit bat curry, skeleton key, and éclade de moules.

    Tuesday Triage #79

    The 79th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring rat tickling, canned green pepper, and cartes de visite.

    Tuesday Triage #78

    The 78th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Arbiter bibendi, aga saga, and baker's twine.

    Tuesday Triage #77

    The 77th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring rabbit starvation, banana bags, and the list of games that Buddha would not play.

    Tuesday Triage #76

    The 76th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring BlodplÀttar, culinary diplomacy, and bromelain.

    Tuesday Triage #75

    The 75th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring self-heating cans of soup, live blackbird pies, and OLY.

    Tuesday Triage #74

    The 74th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring dandy horse, Scott monument, and Danish babies.

    Tuesday Triage #73

    The 73rd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring snail caviar, Nonsuch palace, and slainte.

    Tuesday Triage #72

    The 72nd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring oroshigane, Schlörwagen, and cranachan.

    Tuesday Triage #71

    The 71st edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Sikterusa coffee, Roll Tide, and eurythmy.

    Tuesday Triage #70

    The 70th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Etaoin shrdlu, deadly tomatoes, and Ève Curie.

    Tuesday Triage #69

    The 69th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Champurrado, tallboys, and endless beer.

    Tuesday Triage #68

    The 68th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring cicchetti, silica beads, and Mote spoon.

    Tuesday Triage #67

    The 67th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring aligot, moustache cup, and carved turnips.

    Tuesday Triage #66

    The 66th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring pluto lamps, krupuk, and Noble rot.

    Tuesday Triage #65

    The 65th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring pomato, pepperoni, and retired husband syndrome.

    Tuesday Triage #64

    The 64th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring SpongeBob, days on Venus, and Nutty Putty.

    Tuesday Triage #63

    The 63rd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring short edition, Moorish heads, and plastic rust.

    Tuesday Triage #62

    The 62nd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring ruin value, Pringles, and Highways England.

    Tuesday Triage #61

    The 61st edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring pasta inflation, anime characters, and leaves on the line.

    Tuesday Triage #60

    The 60th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring la mattanza, tabby cats, and freelancers.

    Tuesday Triage #59

    The 59th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Senne in Brussels, salep, and Lignum nephriticum.

    Tuesday Triage #58

    The 58th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring rat stew, SWOLF, and "acts of God".

    Tuesday Triage #57

    The 57th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring mustard balls, Apple Records, and irreversible binomials.

    Tuesday Triage #56

    The 56th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring dishwasher salmon, chess boxing, and Potoooooooo.

    Tuesday Triage #55

    The 55th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring mappazzone, Watling Street, and pedestrianism.

    Tuesday Triage #54

    The 54th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Volkswagen currywurst, socarrat, and jazz on bones.

    Tuesday Triage #53

    The 53d edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring unicorns, tunnels, and oxygen in planes.

    Tuesday Triage #52

    The 52nd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring White Horses of Wiltshire, Eigengrau, and the Gibraltar airport.

    Tuesday Triage #51

    The 51st edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Jun, Bubble and squeak, and Bombay Time.

    Tuesday Triage #50

    The 50th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring sunshowers, military chocolate, and ladybug larvae.

    Tuesday Triage #49

    The 49th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring dog days, pointy shoes, and seitan.

    Tuesday Triage #48

    The 48th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring tulip bulb soup, EURion constellation, and ƞalgam.

    Tuesday Triage #47

    The 47th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Brier score, Xuixo, and East Frisian tea ceremony.

    Tuesday Triage #46

    The 46th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring the Veluwemeer Aqueduct, grime-eating bacteria, and chopsticks etiquette.

    Tuesday Triage #45

    The 45th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring watershed, pan-pan, and hot-dogs.

    Tuesday Triage #44

    The 44th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Kaufmann’s Posographe, champagne rhubarb, and John Titor.

    Tuesday Triage #43

    The 43d edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Dosirak, turtle shells, and moquette.

    Tuesday Triage #42

    The 42nd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring claques, Russian tea in Japan, and saveloy.

    Tuesday Triage #41

    The 41st edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring wallfish, brutalism architecture, and digital fashion.

    Tuesday Triage #40

    The 40th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring cheese in China, Victorian flirt, and Tichborne Dole.

    Tuesday Triage #39

    The 39th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring carnivorous mushrooms, Danny DeVito, and Manx cats.

    Tuesday Triage #38

    The 38th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring isoamyl acetate, pastiera, and grasshoppers.

    Tuesday Triage #37

    The 37th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Schiphol fly, Kintsugi, and peanuts.

    Tuesday Triage #36

    The 36th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Duke Nukem 3D, Charing cross, and Mac'n'Cheese.

    Tuesday Triage #35

    The 35th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring tangzhong, the last lost tourist, and alewives.

    Tuesday Triage #34

    The 34th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Hershey's, blood types, and beer taxation.

    Tuesday Triage #33

    The 33d edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Oyuwari, Masters of Wine, and Ukrainian wedding traditions.

    Tuesday Triage #32

    The 32nd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring CrĂȘpes Suzette, plant blindness, and Bread Dough Hotel.

    Tuesday Triage #31

    The 31st edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring narutomaki, pancake races, and three grand soups.

    Tuesday Triage #30

    The 30th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Lie-to-children, Rhubarb Triangle, and toy whistles.

    Tuesday Triage #29

    The 29th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Subway ‘Tuna Sandwich’, Oranger Suspendu, and Russian tea cakes.

    Tuesday Triage #28

    The 28th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Shrek's law, bread sauce and overlockers.

    Tuesday Triage #27

    The 27th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Sin Eaters, Italian wedding soup, and Old Twelvey.

    Tuesday Triage #26

    The 26th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Cincinnati subway, Widdershins, and Follow-the-Sun.

    Tuesday Triage #25

    The 25th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring brawn, dashed lines, and negative pH.

    Tuesday Triage #24

    The 24th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Whiskey Sours, treasonous glasses, and eel taxes.

    Tuesday Triage #23

    The 23d edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring lifelong dreams, LP records, and Tsundoku.

    Tuesday Triage #22

    The 22nd edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring cryofiltration, mooning, and salmon sushi.

    Tuesday Triage #21

    The 21st edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring kilted soldiers, Nobel disease, and Peter the Great.

    Tuesday Triage #20

    The 20th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring interrobang, Tchaikovsky, drinks, and democrats.

    Tuesday Triage #19

    The 19th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring LomtalanĂ­tĂĄs, dancing droplets, and popcorn in the 1800s.

    Tuesday Triage #18

    The 18th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Gödel, TikTok, and Gin rummy.

    Tuesday Triage #17

    The 17th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Sujeonggwa, alembic, and silk spinning.

    Tuesday Triage #16

    The 16th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring the cocktail menu problem, Einstein's first wife, and Piloncillo.

    Tuesday Triage #15

    The 15th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring wine, slow lorises, friluftsliv.

    Tuesday Triage #14

    The 14th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Gömböc, Stuart Little, and word games.

    Tuesday Triage #13

    The 13th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring egonomics, Menger sponge, and Cockney slang history.

    Tuesday Triage #12

    The 12th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring transparent wood, quantobasta, and October surprise.

    Tuesday Triage #11

    The 11th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring nincompoop, Walt Disney, and cured blueberries.

    Tuesday Triage #10

    The 10th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring coffee rust, thighs of the dawn nymphs, and 'boh!'.

    Tuesday Triage #9

    The 9th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring Nottingham Knockers, routers, and Incompatible Food Triad.

    Tuesday Triage #8

    The 8th edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring gravity trains, cosmic latte, and Chekhov's inventions.

    Tuesday Triage #7

    The seventh edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring 1930s refrigerators, twiglets, and pork cracklings.

    Tuesday Triage #6

    The sixth edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring kotatsu, the hard problem of breakfast, and the mass-energy-information equivalence principle.

    Tuesday Triage #5

    The fifth edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring DIY satellite ground stations, vanity plates, blood bread, and margarita photodermatitis.

    Tuesday Triage #4

    The fourth edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring chippy broon sauce, pie soup fog, and iOS Attest API.

    Tuesday Triage #3

    The third edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring bits and bytes, bloody sausages, and the rise of the present tense in fiction.

    Tuesday Triage #2

    The second edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring articles on managing people and products, Marmite and marriage liturgies.

    Tuesday Triage #1

    The first edition of Tuesday Triage, featuring articles on iOS development, wacky cooking facts, a coat of arms with a bear tearing apart the atom's core, and other food for thought.