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mood
Crackling Fireplace with Thunder, Rain and Howling Wind Sounds. This video is a whole mood.
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science
Why You Should Stop Picking Your Nose. It’s a risk factor for alzheimers!
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Weeknotes 1, 2023
- I’m giving week notes a try to start the year. I like the idea of having a weekly way of sharing things I’ve learned, liked or some bits of life in general. Also, the rhythm of weeks or Veckas just kind of speaks to how my brain works. We’ll see where this goes.
- I just finished up Villager by Tom Cox. A psychedelic collection of stories about a small town on the moors and the people who live there. Neat concept, but if you read it make sure you do it at a consistent clip. I feel like some of the characters references between shorts may have been lost on me. Reading a book around the holidays can be a little choppy. Also, I want to take this opportunity to suggest Tom Cox’s other short story collection, Help the Witch. Just a really great collection of ghost stories and other oddities.
- I’ve also been diving back into Designing Connected Content. I need to brush up on my content and domain modeling for a complex project helping an academic medical center get their arms around a huge ecosystem of digital properties. The book is great! A super nerdy (I mean this in a good way) approach to researching and designing content.
- The melibe viridis is such an alien creature. I literally said whoa when I watched this little clip of it eating!
- I enjoyed reading Starting Off the New Year Without a Smartphone. As a Light Phone user myself, I’m glad they are getting more press so people know there are other options.
- This episode of Hidden Brain was very interesting. “Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. He says there are things we can do to make sure our choices align with our deepest values.”
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Some distractions:
- Lynn Fisher’s personal site is fantastic!
- Paternoster elevators are terrifying!
- Signs of Mexico are just cool!
- Someone spiked the Titanic film crew’s dinner with PCP. Bill Paxton was unphased.
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Tuesday January 3, 2023 -
📷 This place has pancakes bigger than your head!
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words
Words of 2022 from Librarian of Things. So many rabbit holes. librarian.aedileworks.com
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media diet
50 wonderful things from 2022 by Pop Culture Happy Hour’s Linda Holmes. npr.org
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Happy to support fun yet ambitious projects like omg.lol.
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photography
Is it just me or do lake waves seem angrier than ocean waves? trevorpottelberg.com
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📷 Somewhere in NY.
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words
I hope everyone is having a properly slothful Dead Week. theatlantic.com
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art in nature by eric kerr
Wednesday December 14, 2022 -
Canoo p/u
Wednesday December 7, 2022 -
Final Lap / Surrender by Sean Hamilton
Thursday December 1, 2022 -
Snowy country village
Tuesday November 29, 2022 -
links
The University of British Columbia’s student union looks like a cool space.
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tools
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Looria analyzes Reddit posts and comments to find the most popular products. Kinda related is the second half of this 99% Invisible episode on search.
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links
Marco Cornacchia has a fun personal site.
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Life
Everything happens so much
@Horse_ebooks from 2012, still true today.
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Life
The secret to making friends as an adult + the three types of loneliness we all face.
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Liked: All Posts · Chris Burnell. What a fun “section landing” page.
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Currently reading: Empire Of Wild by Cherie Dimaline 📚
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Here’s the way I’ve been thinking about it: there’s a passenger ferry that goes from Cape Cod to Nantucket and there’s a stretch of time in the middle of the journey where you can’t see the mainland behind you and can’t yet see the island ahead — you’re just out in the open water. That’s what I need, to be in that middle part — to forget about what I’ve been doing here for so many years without having to think about where I’m going in the future. I need open water and 5-6 months feels like the right amount of time to find it.
Jason Kottke from I’m Going to Miss You, But I Am Taking a Sabbatical
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Liked: Smol Pub is a tiny blogging service.