Hey friends! How are you doing this fine Monday?
Welcome to the 18 new subscribers who have joined since last week. :) Thank you to those of you who shared the newsletter. I really appreciate it.
We are now at 1220 - and veryyy close to one of my favorite numbers - 1234
3 to 6 people a week abandon randomness. It’s quite sad.
We took a trip down to Maryland to visit my family. I FINALLY got to have a real crab cake after several years. You see - my favorite spot was closed back when we went in October. :(
I connected with many of my old high school classmates at a reunion. It was really fun seeing everyone after 10 years!
I’ve been listening to Max Brook’s book Devolution and it’s quite terrifying so far. It’s a fictional account of a remote tech-eco community that runs into well - Bigfoot trouble - after Mt. Rainier erupts.
The first few chapters are slow - but things start kicking off BIG in chapter 5. I have a feeling these last 6 hours of audio are going to be ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING.
I’m very excited - and relieved I’m not going out in the woods any time soon.
I got a pretty bad cold towards the end of the weekend - so this week we’re doing another “link invasion” of cool links as opposed to the typical format. I’ll be honest - I’m currently feeling like a Halo Spartan with a blinking health bar.
One of the advantages of these rare newsletters is that I share many of the cool things I’ve found - but got lost in the “sea.”
Well, let’s dive into Link Invasion V3, shall we?
👾The Land of Random
More randomness than you can shake a stick at
Bigfoot Research
Oh, so you didn’t know about this comprehensive database of Bigfoot sightings? I didn’t either until a few weeks ago. Fascinating stuff.
Make Word Art
Make some dank word art like you’re listening to dialup noises on your Windows 95 machine.
Reddit Search
This awesome little search engine tool will let you search anything “+Reddit” so you can see what Google surfaces from Reddit about a particular topic. It’s quite fun to find ancient threads about “craziest thing you’ve found in the woods” and that sort of thing.
Spraying Axe Directly East
YouTube is a mad mad world
Perfume ASMR Rooms
Ah yes! Some ASMR to go along with your new scented candles. Very cool
Inscryption Horror Card Game
This looks terrifying but really fun.
TikTok On Your Wrist
Can’t live without scrolling the Tok?
Edible Tape
Burritos fall apart too easily. That’s why we need edible tape
Japanese Egg Roll Pancakes
Also called - I really want to eat this, and will travel to the ends of the world to find this someday.
Pizza AirBNB
Your AirBNB ends up being a Pizza restaurant - What you do?
Pocket Operator for Pixel
The legendary Teenage Engineering made a fun music app that’s exclusive to Pixel phones. It looks so cool. Now I want a Pixel . . . .
Excel is too powerful
Case in point
Rotary Phone MIDI Controller
Make music with a rotary phone? Say no more . . ..
Blockpaper
A physical paper backed blockchain?
The OP-1 Killer?
Speaking of Midi toys . . .
Synthwave BTC Tracker
This is a bop - I would listen to this for hours. The trick would be figuring out how to trade based off it . . .
Modular Sneakers
These are awesome and I kind of want a pair if they ever come out.
Restarting the Web
This is a fantastic article about the current start of the internet, and some ideas for making it better.
🎵TikToks You Can’t Miss
This lobster should never be eaten
I never have this kind of luck at Goodwill
This is an absolutely brilliant sales tactic
This is a Super Mario level life hack
How has no one bought this place yet
That’s all for this week! I’ll be back to our normally scheduled content next week. :)