Learning how to ride a bike comes down to motor cortices, muscle control, and a lot of other cerebral coordination. https://www.popsci.com/story/science/ride-a-bike-never-forget-neuroscience/

My Amazon review of the _Easy Sheet Pan Cookbook: Creative, Fuss-Free Recipes_ #cosobookclub #cooking

4 stars
Just what it promises: Weeknight-ready dinners that are easy to put together

https://amzn.to/3kvgRd5

Méliès shows customary boundless imagination in this short film depicting the pleasures and terrors that plague the drunken baron. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/baron-munchausens-dream

How to Check Which Ports Are in Use on Your Linux System
One step in securing a Linux computer system is identifying which ports are active. Your system’s active ports give you information about which outside applications may be connected to your system.

This guide introduces three common tools you can use find the active ports on your Linux server or computer with links to guides that dive deeper into each tool.
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/check-linux-ports-in-use/

It was time to up-level the lighting for the never-ending Zoom calls. This one is only 20 bucks, and gave me what I needed. https://amzn.to/3q4wGZc

Presumably these hobbit homes are all sold by now (the article is from 2018) but aren't they cool? https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/hobbit-houses-for-sale-listings/

Now I want a Hobbit Hole! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1GukPwBGc&feature=youtu.be

The fashion of pigeon clubs really peaked in the Victorian Era, when enthusiasts, rich and poor, got together with their “pooter” or “dragoon” breeds to primp, compare and swap them. https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/01/03/the-secret-world-of-pageant-pigeons/

"One of us runs a restaurant in a very high-cost market, so we understand concerns that raising the minimum wage might limit hiring or even drive more restaurants and other small companies out of business. But we need to get some facts straight."

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/02/22/how-a-15-minimum-wage-could-help-restaurants-and-other-hard-hit-small-businesses/

A rhythmic supercut of typewriters in film and TV https://laughingsquid.com/supercut-of-typewriters-in-film-and-tv/

Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm https://www.thedrive.com/news/39378/how-canadians-derailed-a-train-and-drove-it-to-city-hall-for-power-after-a-brutal-ice-storm

Although technology has gotten more sophisticated and the means by which heists are committed have changed, burglaries of the world’s greatest artworks continue to be executed often, effectively adding new and bizarre chapters to the annals of art history in the process. https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/greatest-art-heists-of-all-time-1234583441/

Glide around another city while listening to its radio stations with Drive & Listen https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com

For your OOOH PRETTY appreciation.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2021/feb/10/underwater-photographer-of-the-year-2021-winners-in-pictures

This is fun reading!
"I am pulled back again and again into this bar I do not like by an uncontrollable and carnal drive: a loyalty to The Boys and a congenital love of hollering." https://www.vice.com/en/article/dpwa7w/i-played-the-boys-are-back-in-town-on-a-bar-jukebox-until-i-got-kicked-out-832

In related news, it's more than a year since I had a hair cut.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-sheep/baarack-from-the-brink-wild-sheep-rescued-in-australia-shorn-of-35-kg-fleece-idUSKBN2AO0CW

Things JRR Tolkien has never said, done, written or had anything to do with
https://thetolkienist.com/things-j-r-r-tolkien-has-never-said-done-written-or-had-anything-to-do-with-an-on-going-series/

This giant bed known as “The Great Bed of Ware” carries a reputation which is a little racier than most and still has the graffiti carved by those who slept in it. https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/great-bed-of-ware

RIP Rennie Davis, best known as part of the Chicago 7.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/politics/rennie-davis-dead.html

“Life this spring will not be substantially different from the past year; summer could, miraculously, be close to normal; and next fall and winter could bring either continued improvement or a moderate backslide, followed by a near-certain return to something like pre-pandemic life.” https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/02/pandemic-daily-life-normal-summer-fall/618108/