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  • The Weighted Hoop

    What’s the most fun way to exercise? I used to exercise with a weighted hula hoop and would highly recommend that for anyone interested in a more fun form of fitness. I paid about $25 for mine, I got it at a sporting goods store in the mall (it was 2008), and I chose the…

  • Ukranian Eggshell Art Goes So Hard

    There is an ancient pagan egg-dying craft from Ukraine called “pysanky” I first saw pictures (or maybe a gif) of it on Twitter, years ago. It’s gorgeous, when done by a practiced artist. Finely layered, cleverly designed, wax patterns with bold geometric shapes are put onto the fragile shell of an egg with dye. Like…

  • Undone – My Sweater Blog

      I’m unraveling one of my oldest handmade sweaters! It was not my first but early in my attempts at knitting a pullover style sweater. I was so excited to make one in my favorite color to wear that I didn’t carefully plan nor research the advantages of what yarn to use. The black color…

  • Bus Pass Guinea Pig

    The public transportation system I use just started offering bus passes through their app. Until now it was mainly just for tracking buses, or looking at routes and maps. Now it can sell and generate bus passes as well. I learned this only because I’m subscribed to the transit company’s YouTube channel, and I watch…

  • Aaron Bushnell Did A Big Thing (Trigger Warning- Suicide)

    Did he set himself on fire for attention? It seems to have worked, it certainly caught my regard. Aaron Bushnell was only 26 years old, he went to an Israel embassy in Washington DC dressed in an air force uniform and livestreamed himself with the Twitch app calmly doing something very hardcore. From a thermos…