🙌Fun Furniture, Find a Spring, and Fabric Links

Fresh water near you

Sep 25, 2023

Hey friends! How are you doing this week?

How many of y’all ordered that brand-new iPhone?

I think it’s hilarious that they finally upgraded to USB-C. I guess we’re finally getting close (in some areas of tech) to a universal cable type.

On the other side - Amazon’s new Echo announcements weren’t anything crazy this year - I’m kind of interested what chatting with Alexa “AI style” will be like.

I was hoping for a flying Ring Always Home Drone that can do multiple stories throughout a house.

My favorite tech announcement from this week was Rewind AI shipping for ALL Macs - M1/M2 and Intel-based Macs. It’s been working pretty well on mine so far!

The free plan is pretty awesome - definitely give it a spin if you get the chance.

I’ve been starting to get back into horror movies - As Above, So Below is incredibly terrifying, so I haven’t finished it . . . yet.

Currently watching Ahsoka (that last episode was NUTS right??), and Hellsing Ultimate for the third time (can’t resist a good Hellsing rewatch).

I’ll have to do another post here soon on good horror movies to watch for October. Next week perhaps . . .

Shall we dive in?

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🙌 Fun Furniture

Why does furniture have to be boring?

Why - oh why - does it have to be so dang functional?

These are the questions I ask myself every time i build a fort out of various bits of furniture for my kids.

If only the furniture itself was fun. Couches aren’t designed to be “fort friendly.”

These days - there are fun solutions out here. If allowed, I would happily buy three sets from a store like this one and have a “play friendly living room.”

Down the rabbit hole - there are certainly cheaper options than the old “nugget” couch. For $500 you could easily turn your living room into a jungle gym.

HOWEVER - I think I’ve discovered the holy grail of play couches.

Meet Nara’s Family. collection -

a group made of six modulable pieces with individual characteristics. family. includes a sofa, two armchairs, one coffee table, one side table and one foot rest. They are modulable in many different ways—different compositions are possible and almost limitless, a reflection of the user’s imagination. The furniture is mousse based and covered in textile. It offers both durable support and comfort for a work space or a home. (source)

It’s very bright, fun - and you could potentially use this as real living room furniture.

(I would - maybe with everything in that light blue color).

Now - before you all excited, I believe this collection is really expensive. You have to send an email to get a quote. :)

I’m just happy this is a creative project that someone’s willing to make and sell. Most of the time - these projects are just to “think about” and enjoy for the aesthetics.

Check it out at the link!

Family Furniture

🌊Find A Spring

There’s a road here in Columbia, TN called “Carters Creek” that runs through a lot of old farms and houses - a long curvy windy road that makes you feel like you’re out in the middle of nowhere.

The other day we were driving through when I noticed someone filling up 5 gallon jugs of water from a pipe sticking out of a rock wall.

Oh i think I’ve heard about this - this is that spring water pipe that people get drinking water from.

The next intrusive thought that entered my head was - Is that water safe to drink?

Well - you can actually figure that out with a website called “Find a Spring” and some crowd-sourced information.

Here’s the listing for the Carter’s Creek pipe. There’s a ton of posting activity on it.

Turns out - despite the fact that many people drink the water - it’s not safe to drink “straight from the source” because of E. Coli.

Hopefully, the people who collect the water use chemicals, boiling, or other methods to remove the bacteria!

I got to work seeing if there were any safe springs nearby - heck - any safe tracked springs nearby in general.

There’s apparently a spring called Hidden Manna over in Gipsonville, but it has no user reviews. The same is true of John Noel at Bon Aqua State Park.

The only activity on both of those Springs is a person named Judy who uploads water tests - and based on the bio i think Judy works for the Tennessee Department of Health.

Yeah . . . there’s no way I’d drink from any of those springs without boiling/bleaching the water.

It would be a fun little adventure to go check them out - maybe even be risky and take a drink through a lifestraw filter.

Go see if you can find a spring near you!

Find A Spring

🔗Fabric Links

We’re entering another era of the “bookmarking tool” wars.

A few new ones have emerged recently (including Sublime or Atmos which hope to add social aspects to your bookmarking).

Even Artifact is slowly moving in that direction with their linksharing update.

Today’s tool of discussion is Fabric - a “digital brain” tool that promises to use AI to organize all your files, screenshots, and links.

Just upload to your inbox - or organize your links in a specific collection.

The UI/UX is very clean + minimalist - and exceedingly easy to use.

There’s web apps, iPhone apps, Android apps, Chrome extension - and it’s still in Beta (dang we don’t usually get everything in Beta amiright?).

At first glance - If I pull up Raindrop and compare the two - Raindrop is still the winner hands down when it comes to organization.

However - Fabric has an intriguing Timeline feature where it will track your upload by day.

AND - a absolute bevy of other features such as

when you highlight on a webpage, it creates an interactive little note YOU CAN RETURN TO LATER. Really useful when you’re 4 years deep into over 7,000 links for your newsletter and you can’t remember everything.
the ability to add comments on your links natively within Fabric - useful for saving little nuggets of information as you think about particular things that you save.
Multiplayer spaces with live cursors + chat.

Coming soon is the ability to chat with your database, connecting to other tools, saving websites offline, and more!

If Raindrop isn’t careful - I’m willing to bet Fabric might just eat its lunch.

At the moment - you can request access to the free beta.

I’m not sure at the moment if this is a Raindrop killer, or a Raindrop addendum. With an IFTTT integration I could easily send all my Raindrop links to Fabric, and vice versa depending on where I’m saving things.

The timeline / internet highlight tools are very intriguing . . . .

I think given Fabric’s timeline of features - it’s definitely possible it could catch up with Raindrop in the next year or so . . .

For those of you who are also bookmarking aficionados, I’m curious to hear your thoughts. What do YOU think of Fabric?

Go check it out at the link!

Fabric

🐙The Land of Random

It’s ya favorite section - those crazy links you need.

Toy Story NFL Game

The logistics of this sound insane - Basically Disney is turning a Football game into a live CGI game in Andy’s room, using Toy Story characters and “chibi” football players?

This. I gotta see.

Toy Story Football

Explore the Earth with Landsat

Fancy exploring some satellite imagery of the Earth?

Start Exploring

Make a Stained Glass Window

Get breaking - and don’t forget to turn up your volume! It’s quite a fun little experiment.

Break Some Glass

Get a Pixel Pal on Your iPhone

Remember those desktop pals of the early 2000’s? Well - get one for your phone! Not only are there interactive game widgets, BUT ALSO your desktop pal will live in your phone’s dynamic island!

Pixel Pal