New Year’s Eve: 2019 vs 2020.
(eye contact, people)
Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
The problem with multiple video chat appointments in the same household at the same time.
Whoa… Sutro Tower is surrounded by orange smoke in this shot by Vjeran Pavic above San Francisco yesterday. Via Daily Overview: https://www.over-view.com/overviews/sutro-tower
Oh, this looks cool: A steampunk Metroidvania-style game based on #GirlGenius: Adventures in Castle Heterodyne, now raising funds on Kickstarter
Incredible (and in some cases disturbing) photos from the current round of wildfires raging across California.
Saw this on birdsite. Seems about right.
source: @Webcomicon
#comics #2020
RT @KurtBusiek: 2020
On Twitter
Slugging through. https://somethingpositive.net/comic/slugging-through/ via @choochoobear
Fascinating to look at yesterday’s California power demand vs. forecast graph & how effective the 3pm Flex Alert was at getting people to reduce power usage during peak hours. (That forecast demand peak was very close to the forecast supply peak.)
https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. No, really: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/science/randall-munroe-xkcd-temperature.html
Should I be concerned that this strategy sort of makes sense?
An amazing composite photo of the Milky Way and Jupiter over the snow-covered Himalayas, via @apod. Photographer Tomas Havel took 8 exposures from the same spot over 3 hours and combined them to make this image.
XKCD takes a look at things from the virus’ point of view: human immune systems are scary, but even scarier: humans are adapting! With pasta!
Atlas Obscura reports on a trend where artists are drawing Amabie (アマビエ), a sort of mer-bird-person spirit associated with protection from disease.
A Healing Spirit From 19th-Century Japan Is Back to Face COVID-19
Artists are bringing back Amabie, a ‘yōkai’ associated with protection from disease.
Image by Kaori Hamura Long. The article features several other examples from the current trend.
A Healing Spirit From 19th-Century Japan Is Back to Face COVID-19.
Artists are bringing back Amabie, a ‘yōkai’ associated with protection from disease.
via @atlasobscura
Elevator desks for the world’s largest file cabinet in Prague https://www.vintag.es/2020/01/central-social-institution-prague.html
XKCD: “Changes I would make to the solar system.”
MORE ASTEROIDS!
(ok, stop asteroids.)