Bookity
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- Taiki Waiti and others reading James and the Giant Peach to fund COVID-19 relief.
- Download a free collection of astrobiology stories from the European Astrobiology Institute.
- “Essential until we’re not: An angry librarian on the disregard for library staff safety”.
- “Things I have learned about the general public whilst working at the library”.
- Really, I’m not sure what they expected, putting a Principality in charge of the humans…
Think, Do, Make, Learn
- “How Nextdoor courts police and public officials”.
- Some cursed whale facts. An additional cursed whale fact.
- Jane Roe was paid to have her anti-choice “conversion”.
- If you need to see a real President in action…
Life in These Pandemic Times
- “The anxious future of the elevator”.
- “The pandemic may forever change the world’s cities”.
- “Even the pandemic can’t kill the open-plan office”. Dammit.
- What effects will the lack of cruise ship tourism have this summer?
- Social distancing fails, or camera tricks?
- “How COVID-19 creates ‘pre-traumatic conditions’ in the brain”.
- “This virus of great uncertainty” (about antibody tests).
- I did not know that the “Spanish flu” most likely originated in Kansas.
- Pandemic simulator.
- The Globe is in serious trouble.
- Social distancing posters from the National Park Service.
- “Some advice on how to cope in these tough times” from myjetpack.
- BOOM.
- That 12-year old knows what’s up.
- Why “staying out of melee range” is a better term than “social distancing”. 😉
- How to build various sorts of furniture forts, per IKEA.
- Pandemic linkity from kmkat. And more!
Cookity
- Grilled pizza from scratch.
- 5-ingredient chicken fajita foil packets.
- 2-ingredient ice cream bread.
- 41 cake recipes.
Artsy Crafty
Cool
- The fascinating interaction of cats and piano! (Thanks, Nicole!)
- Let’s make happiness out of life instead of moments.
- Kevin the Kitten animation!
- The end of the rainbow.
- :blink blink:
- Linkity from kmkat. And more.
Wha…?
- Penguins touring an art museum.
- “Researchers accidentally got high on laughing gas from penguin poop”.
- Missing the entire point of the blue pill vs red pill thing…
- “Eric Trump thinks the coronavirus is Democratic hoax designed to hurt his dad politically”. :facepalm:
- “Do you believe Anthony Fauci…or President Trump who says he disagrees with him?” :headdesk:
Reading Update
Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects by Christine Schmidt. Interesting and wide-ranging projects, from using linoleum blocks to screenprinting to cyanotypes. Unfortunately, the book is a decade old, and some of the specialized materials don’t seem to be available anymore.
“Why doesn’t Mom ever go anywhere anymore?! It’s kind of creepy.” -Mayhem
I think we’re all languishing. 🙁
I’ve been worrying about the towns and islands which depend on cruise ship money, too. (I’ve been to some of the places mentioned in that article, and everything — EVERYTHING — in the visible parts of town were geared toward tourists. I’m sure there are spots for the locals too that we didn’t see, but still. It’s worrying. Vastly different from someplace like San Francisco, which has spots for the tourists mixed in alongside spots for the locals.)
Damnit. I was hoping that at least this virus would kill the open office, maybe even let me WFH permanently. (It won’t, at least unless I find a new job.) Sigh.
I’m glad you enjoyed the piano cat link! 😀
A recent post from Nicole..Friday Reads: Dim Sum of All Fears
The Honey glue stick via Pen Addict is making me reeeaaaly uncomfortable.
Well when speaking of staff that aren’t safe, no one are thanking daycare workers here and we are allowed zero protection and have kids coughing sneezing at us everyday
I forwarded the library links to the chair of our library board and to Carole.knits, a MA library director. Re: the Spanish flu epidemic. You might like reading The Great Influenza by John Barry. I read it about 15 years ago and still remember it as a very informative book that was a bit of a page-turner.