🥘 Do you even hotpot bro?

hotpots are awesome

Hey friends! Welcome to this week’s edition of The Land of Random.

Did you hear about Digg? shut down again!

All possibly due to SEO bots. I was quite intrigued by the platform - there were definitely people who actually wanted the platform to succeed.

and there were lots of people trying to ALSO get digg “link juice” for SEO.

Have you been seeing all the nostalgia about mini laptops like the Sony Vaio Micro-PC? (here’s an old deepdive).

The nostalgia machine is REALLY churning now . . . the Rabbit (yes the Rabbit R!) company is creating a cyberdeck in the style of the old netbooks.

I still have my old acer netbook - I can’t even get the thing to turn on anymore.

Oh! and don’t even get me started on the 2009 Panasonic Viera.

So many PEAK designs back then - and what do we have now? rectangular slabs . . . everywhere.

All this nostalgia has got me thinking a lot about the kind of “aesthetic” impact the iPhone had on technology . . . I’ll be writing a piece soon.

In good news - the Myrient ROM database was backed up - hundreds of terabytes of old games - saved!

In random news . . . angelfire seems to be back online. It was down for a while. (remember angelfire?)

Let’s hop in!

🥘 I dream of HotPots

We don’t have many hotpot options around Middle Tennessee.

One of my favorite restaurant experiences in the last decade was going to a hotpot place down in Nashville. It was incredible - and delicious.

A few more have opened since - and they’re on my short list to go when I get a chance. With four kids it’s a lot of work to manage them with boiling soup in the middle of the table.

I recently stumbled across Hmart’s hotpot kit.

Y’all - I had no idea this existed. This is awesome.

It comes with soup bases, noodles, an awesome pot, and more. You can buy it online!

It’s apparently only $20 when you buy it in-store.

I’ve been fascinated with these kinds of kits for years now - but never saw one for sale before in the USA. (Most of what I see is only available in Japan, South Korea, or China).

Even a cursory search for “hot pot kits” surfaces just this Goldbelly kit or an eBay hotpot kit.

There’s . . . not a lot of online options, so the Hmart option really jumped out at me.

I’m quite jealous of all the cool stuff they sell overseas.

For example - watch this video by Dancing Bacons. I really wish we had this kind of stuff in the States. I’d eat them . . . way too often.

Dancing Bacons has a TON of good videos - i highly recommend his content.

Here’s another fun video - a “camping hotpot” experience! so fun.

What about hot pot at home - you say?

Yes - I need to give it a shot. There’s plenty of guides out there like this one.

SO - you in the mood for hotpot now?

🐙The Land of Random

Strange and mysterious links from the internet.

Cosmic Dust

Ever want to explode a nebula with your cursor? This’ll be the most entertaining 30 seconds of today.

Channelsurfer

It’s Youtube - but in the style of Cable TV. Very interesting!

Dead Internet is Here

more evidence for your review

Typewriter Keyboard

No no - it’s actually a keyboard that looks a little like a typewriter, and it looks awesome.

Scrolllllllll

scrolllllllllllllll foreverrrrrrr

Gif Manga

The most incredibly unhinged manga you’ll ever read. ever. music, sound effects, scrolling super fast . . .

Portable Coldbrew

In addition to being a good PDP landing page - this actually looks like an interesting product. They’re little portable nitro cold brew cartridges you just add to water for cold brew on the go.

Enclose Horse

Can you enclose the horse so he can’t escape??

That’s all for this week! see you next time.