“Heavy wind and rain caused a large tree to fall on a house, killing a woman who was sleeping inside.” Here is the link to a video on it. keywords: [storm] [fatality] [accidental death] [cautionary tale] [warning]
Day: May 16, 2020
video on how to make a kitchen hot pad pot holder (vintage style) – crochet pattern and tutorial
Here’s the link. keywords: [arts and crafts] [do it yourself (diy)] [double thickness] [efficiency] [two colors] [kitchen kitsch]
article: The Intolerable Fragility of American Hospitals
Here’s the link. keywords: [life] [money] [wealth] [priority] [priorities] [hospital closures]
a physical example of anti-fragility: peening
Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on this topic. (cf: the proverb, “The hammer does not mind that the anvil calls it names.”) keywords: [Nassim Nicholas Taleb] [life]
OBSERVATION (gifting pen and pencil sets)
The nice thing about a gifted pen-and-pencil set is that it combines the two important activities of curation and funding. keywords: [money] [cyberspace]
OBSERVATION (funding and curation)
Being under-curated is just as bad as being under-funded. keywords: [advice] [money] [cyberspace]
PUN (buyer be ware)
Facebook’s marketing model: Let the buyer be ware. keywords: [data] [privacy] [Information Technology (IT)] [cyberspace]
NaturalReader (text-to-speech app)
Here is the link to their site. keywords: [listening] [playback] [text to speech] [dyslexic font]
dyslexic font
Here is the link to a news story on this. (Note that the text-to-speech app NaturalReader offers the option of dyslexic font from its very start-up.) keywords: [Language Arts] [Linguistics] [reading disorder] [developmental form] [acquired form]