Quick thoughts and links that don’t warrant their own posts. Phonics app, a blog about pylons, short film about humanities place in a robot world, and how to win Monopoly.
Category: Social
House in the Morning
Mists in the hills at the edge of Nanao, about 8am.
Old Japan Picture
Testing sharing photos from phone using iOS Shortcuts. This picture is from our 2017 Japan trip.
Pass Down the Gown
Do you go to events where you need a formal dress, and you would rather avoid having to buy one? Particularly during those seasons where you might need to go to multiple events, and you want to have a different dress at each? Here is a post inspired by my wife and a wedding we… Continue reading Pass Down the Gown
Wealth, Shown to Scale
We rarely see wealth inequality represented to scale. This is part of the reason people consistently underestimate the relative wealth of the super rich.
Autumn at Lakewood
In the spring, when we were standing in the kitchen and finally starting to talk about when we were going to move to Japan, to actually put a date on the calendar and buy a plane ticket, we narrowed it down to sometime around October or November. For a few reasons we settled on November… Continue reading Autumn at Lakewood
Mapping A Community
This is probably a pretty niche topic for a post, but it’s my blog so deal with it. I have on occasion gone on “mapping streaks” by contributing to the OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap, or OSM, is basically the map version of Wikipedia, a community-sourced open-source editable map of the world. OSM is basically a giant database… Continue reading Mapping A Community
There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of [social] scurvy | Experimental History
To combat loneliness, it’s important to engage in social activities, even when we’re not feeling particularly lonely, as this can help us better understand and manage our feelings of being alone.
The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds | Grantland (2014)
I browse Hacker News sometimes and tonight there was this old repost about the board game Diplomacy. This is a link to it.