Elenahttps://www.gouletpens.com/blogs/fountain-pen-blog/sailor-shikiori-tokiwa-matsu-ink-reviewNathaliehttps://alienmelon.itch.io/ [cw:flashing lights]Fish-based screensavershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQpCcQhNfxMhttps://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-camsFire safetyhttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheThingThatGoesDoinkhttps://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/8/644/files/2017/08/Chiang-Lifecycle-of-Software-Objects-q3tsuw.pdfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Qxqmhqj1AThe Aquarium and the Glass Harmonicahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOx7zmO5ppwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FAc3HmfoSYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSzTPGlNa5Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA3sA3ncX44&start=103I Am Running Into A New Year by Lucille Cliftonhttps://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/738271770264600576I went to Japanhttps://nerdparadise.com/mspaint/stereogramhttps://twitter.com/mischiefanimals/status/1704934776421913018Shikiori Ink.The Computer Museum in Berlin.Back when you saw fish-based screen savers everywhere. The Roku app fish screen saver.A rock in the aquarium that says "Roku"11 hours of fish content. Fish nerds sitting in a small box at the bottom of the ocean getting hype over seeing a small worm.An animated gif of fish nerds getting hype. A live jellyfish web cam that is just in principle. A web cam of the thing that goes donk and everyone cheers when it goes donk. The fish screen saver where you need to keep buying floppy disks with fish food on it or the fish die. Don't copy that fish food! The startup selling digital rabbit food going out of business so all the digital rabbits go into hibernation.The Life Cycle of Software Objects. Being unable to open your front door because the smart lock ran out of batteries. Everybody congratulating you on the infuriating guy you made up to get mad at. Fire safety anecdotes. Glass top electric stoves that look just like induction stoves, as a prank. How fire extinguishers taste. Looking at fire extinguisher dust and thinking "let's get the blood brain barrier involved."Leaving the stove on.Broiling a sandwich and the whole sandwich catches fire.A five year old doing science experiments with a lit candle. The UX design of grease fires.The William Shatner song about the dangers of deep frying a turkey. Relating to the teens coming into fashion for like a week and then the next week the teens are like "You're still trying to relate? That's cheugy AF."Self-moistening fingertips. Soaking your fingertips in water for eight minutes to get them pruny.The Canon of harmonica virtuoso music.Ethereal floating tones that fade in and out of existence. The Flat Bells. The Mellotron as a slightly more physical sampler. Clara Rockmore playing "The Swan" on Theremin.Bit-doers playing "The Swan" on Otamatone.Letting go of what you said to yourself about yourself when you were 16, 26, even 36.The assumption that you need to be forgiven for something. The sun coming up on this episode of Topic Lords. Working up the courage to climb the mountain you see every day from your back yard.Really tall hills you can walk up. What it's like to not hear cars constantly. Designing a building to sound good – even if it isn't a concert hall. Car-free cities.Biking in a bike-centric environment. Throwing your body into traffic and hoping drivers care about the legal liability of running someone over.The intersection where you always see the skid marks from kids doing donuts. Doing watercolors but with ink. Buying a bunch of art supplies and never using them because you're afraid to waste them. How do you get your paintbrush to do what you want? How watercolors behave depending on how wet the painting is and how wet the paintbrush is. Scraping your knife on the painting and it just looks like a shed. Is it a bunch of cats or is it the word "gay"?Images that look like stereograms but aren't. The blank canvas stereogram. Crowds staring at the enormous stereograms hanging up in the Mall of America.Stereogram artists accounting for pupillary distance. Making a stereogram in MS Paint.
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