Category — Microblog Mondays

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I’ve always thought that I’m decent at guesstimating size. Distances? I’m dreadful. But if you ask me to make a 16 cm x 9 cm square, I can usually get pretty close.

But now I have proof because there is a game (of course there is a game) where you have to try to create a shape and then see how close you are to correct. On my first try, I got 89.34%, which is a B in 501st place. Once I knew how to play the game, on the second try, I got 91.05%, which is an A in 396th place. I’m moving on up.

How do you do?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I skip the AI summaries at the top of Google Search because they’ve been wrong the vast majority of the times I spot-check the information. It recently told me that Go Gentle by Maria Semple “explores themes relating to the Middle East, including the journey of an Israeli and a Palestinian toward peace.” I had Googled her name to see her Wikipedia page, and I was a little surprised because I was 65% of the way through her book and nothing about the conflict had come up. A quick search of the e-book told me it wouldn’t come up, and I can report that it didn’t come up. So… thanks, Google, for more wrong information.

But this post has a ton of Google tricks to get you to better information. I especially like the verbatim mode, which took me first to Maria Semple’s website and then her Wikipedia page. No incorrect AI summary to jump over at all. Passing it along in case it is helpful to you, too.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I saw this on a website and thought it was a fun idea that captures some of the old excitement that came with developing a roll of film. Remember that? When you would take pictures on a trip or at a party, and you wouldn’t know for weeks—or months!—how they turned out? They could be terrible. Or they could be the most amazing photo ever.

I feel sad that kids never experience the rush of getting a sleeve of photos back. I also feel relieved knowing that all my pictures are great before I leave somewhere. But in case you miss it, this is an app that lets you take a limited number of photos and then makes you wait to see them, mimicking a roll of film.

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I learned from a BBC article that cafes used to be called penny universities. For the cost of a penny, you could get a cup of coffee and sit and learn about local politics, world news, or general gossip.

I love this idea of knowledge being accessible. We wanted more people to be educated. To hear the news. Sure, there was a cost in the sense that you needed to pay a penny — which, on average, was about 1/10th of a person’s daily wage — but I’m paying a lot more than a 10th of my salary on each kid’s education.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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WikiCommute randomly chooses an information rabbit hole to travel down based on the length of your commute, coupled with your reading speed. They build a continuous scroll of random Wikipedia content. Which could be a little dangerous, now that I think about it. Wikipedia is generally safe, but it’s poor practice to leave all curation of information going into your eyeballs to chance.

Nevertheless, it’s a fun idea of filling your commute with random knowledge vs. doomscrolling.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.