estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Overheard (from last night): I’ve truly enjoyed hope scrolling today.
This is a good thought to keep in mind today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uFwyPP5GOQ
What is the most useless thing you still have memorized?
(Besides old phone numbers; that's too obvious.)
Me: the Ford part number for motor oil. I was Repair Accounting Clerk at U-Haul in 1983 and wrote it 40x/day.
"Unlike forks that have preceded it, which have to try and manufacture interest and attention, Valkey is a constant source of curiosity for clients, and questions." https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/07/16/post-valkey-world/
This website lets you watch sunsets across the world.
https://sunset.funwebsite.fun
Oh look, there is an opera I would attend! https://thefixopera.com/
Angband is a free, single-player dungeon exploration game.
https://rephial.org/
"Sensors in smartphones and smart speakers could help determine a person’s level of alcohol intoxication based on the changes in their voice, according to a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs." https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1007120
Everyday uses for PVC water pipe https://tomtilley.net/projects/pvc/
Seattle-based Interlune is one of 11 startups receiving NASA grants to test commercial tech in space. The startup plans to use its $350k grant to pulverize lunar soil, or “regolith,” to extract a form of helium that could be used in quantum computing and fusion power.
https://www.nasa.gov/stmd-flight-opportunities/access-flight-tests/nasa-techflights-solicitation-information/nasa-techflights-2023-selections/
The St. Petersburg City Council voted to approve 12 legally binding agreements governing construction and funding for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium and a surrounding redevelopment called the Historic Gas Plant District.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/st-petersburg/2024/07/18/rays-stadium-vote-results-city-council-stream/
Overheard: deadline-driven development
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The photo series took inspiration from the photographs of life in the trenches during WWI.
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/i-shot-photos-with-a-108-year-old-camera-lens-to-commemorate-the-soldiers-of-wwi
Last fall, an unemployed guy named Julian Joseph used LazyApply to apply for nearly 1,000 jobs while he slept. He landed around 20 interviews from 5,000 submissions. https://www.wired.com/story/this-ai-bot-fills-out-job-applications-for-you-while-you-sleep
I've been cooking this week from the Easy German Cookbook: a basic meatloaf and gravy, and grilled pork chops that were marinated for 24 hours. Comfort food at its finest, and budget-friendly, too. https://amzn.to/4cM2s6i
The Objects of Our Life: Steve’s talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen
Best thing I've read all week, for a whole bunch of reasons.
In the talk, Steve predicts that, by 1986, sales of the PC would exceed sales of cars, and that in the following ten years, people would be spending more time with a PC than in a car. These were absurd claims for the early 1980s.
What if we could find a germ that broke down our plastic waste into tiny building blocks that could be reassembled and recycled again and again, allowing us never to produce another ounce of new plastic again? That’s the dream that scientists are now pursuing, using bacteria, fungi and more that can, functionally, “eat” plastic. https://pgsignal.com/2024/04/08/natures-recyclers-can-bacteria-and-fungi-win-the-war-on-plastic
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017