estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
"Thanks to a variety of apps, you can make your digital comics on a smartphone, a tablet, a computer or even a plain old piece of paper. Here’s a guide." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/technology/personaltech/create-your-own-digital-comics-whether-you-can-draw-or-not.html
Are you (or were you) an employee who telecommutes? I'd like your input for an article. Details here.
31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance #cosobookclub https://www.embracerace.org/resources/26-childrens-books-to-support-conversations-on-race-racism-resistance
I need something to smile at, and I bet you do too. How about this: You can remotely feed some chickens in California. http://www.solarchickens.com
It is heartbreaking to contemplate that 30% of the country wants four more years of this.
_This_ is the world they want to live in.
Can you guess? "Heroine in an English country house novel or member of a pandemic shelter-in-place American household?" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/heroine-in-an-english-country-house-novel-or-member-of-a-pandemic-shelter-in-place-american-household
Facebook deems baker's pie 'too sexy' for social media
https://au.news.yahoo.com/facebook-deems-new-zealand-pie-too-sexy-social-media-064102492.html
A group of publishers sued the Internet Archive over the 1.3 million books that the group has made freely available online.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/books/internet-archive-emergency-library-coronavirus.html
An entire website dedicated to exploring why McMansions are so awful. https://mcmansionhell.com/101
I'm not going to write an Amazon review of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, about Thomas Cromwell, because I don't think I have anything to add to the 4800+ reviews. But if you're looking for a brilliant historical novel that you can fall into... well, this is the right choice. It's escapist enough for my currently-poor concentration skills, but also manages to convey a real picture for what it might have been like.
#cosobookclub
‘Coronavirus Cooking Survey’ Finds That People Are Eating Healthier and Wasting Less Food https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/people-are-eating-healthier-during-covid-shutdowns/
Spend some time down the rabbit hole of author-as-gameshow contestant, from Herman Wouk to John le Carré.
You didn't want to be productive at work, did you? This is loads of fun.
An ancient Roman mosaic floor unearthed beneath an Italian vineyard https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-roman-mosaics-discovered-beneath-italian-vineyard-180974986/
A seed catalog from 1893 https://austinkleon.com/2020/05/23/pansy-precursors/
Arduino Pinball Machine That Plays Itself https://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Pinball-Machine-That-Plays-Itself/
He described a starling’s song thus: “the airy whistle, the various chirp, the clink-clink as of a cracked bell, the low chatter of mixed harsh and musical sounds, the kissing and finger-cracking and those long metallic notes”. https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/may-june-2020/the-healing-power-of-birdsong/
"A fair amount of research suggests that selfishness makes you isolated from other people. You don’t feel connected, you don’t feel that you are making a positive difference in other people’s lives, nor that they are there to support you." https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2017/do-yourself-favor
"A 13th-century illuminated manuscript that has been in St John’s College for nearly 400 years has been digitised to reach a new audience. The 377-page manuscript is a psalter - the most common medieval religious text known as devotionals - that belonged to Robert de Lindsay, the Abbot of Peterborough from 1214 to 1222." https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/education/st-john-s-college-digitises-13th-century-robert-de-lindsay-manuscript-9108991/
New Jersey brewery creates Trash Can Banger beer #baseball https://sports.yahoo.com/beer-company-bashes-astros-brew-013637575.html
A stalwart of the Mexican landscape is finding a second life powering up buildings in the desert, and it is proving to be an unusually sustainable biofuel. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200521-mexican-cacti-a-sustainable-biofuel-from-the-desert
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017