Category — Microblog Mondays

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Someone shared this older list of words you may not know, and… the author was correct. Most of these were words I didn’t know. I knew (and use) three: tine, petchichor, and interrobang. How about you?

And what is another word that you know that I may not know? Teach me a new word.

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NASA has a tool where you can write your name (or any word) in Landsat satellite images. So a winding river may become the S, and a jagged mountain range may become an M. Sometimes you need to squint to see the word emerge in the images. But did I immediately put in all four of our names and pull out images? Yes, I did. And did I text those images on our family text chain? Yes, I did. And did anyone else think it was as cool as I did?

Well, no, they did not.

But I like them.

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I know I say every game is my new favourite, but this one has the staying power of a Wordle.

With Whittle, you get two unrelated words. You have to tap letters to erase them while still making real words. For instance, “adds” can become “ads” if you erase the second “D,” but you cannot erase the “A” and make “dds.”

You win when you erase all letters, but then you can continue playing until you find all of the hidden words. Once you win, you see the words you’ve already found near the bottom of the screen with a blank box for any missing words. This is helpful because you can know how many letters the missing word has, and it goes in alphabetical order, so you can know the missing word comes between these two words you’ve found.

It is really brilliant and super simple. And it’s the sort of thing you can keep putting down and coming back to as you try to find the final few. Plus, you can play the archive, so there are hours of play.

Love this.

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Josh and I both have ongoing mixtapes on our phones where we capture new songs we like or old songs we remember. We mostly listen to his mix, but every once in a while, we play mine instead.

I’ve been adding to the list for years, and my current list (because I had one before this that reached 2.5 hours of music before I started over) ran almost 12 hours. 12 hours!

I cleaned it up this weekend, moving all of the songs I normally skipped over to a new “things I used to like” list. I didn’t want to forget them entirely, but I wanted to bring the list down to things I would be happy to hear. It ended up at a trim 8.5 hours of music.

It feels wrong to delete songs off a mixtape. I never did that in the past; they were a time capsule of what interested me at the moment. But the current list feels better. I may even cut it back a little more.

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I am normally NOT a fan of timed games – I prefer to relax and think and not worry about moving quickly – but Outlier is a lot of fun. You get a block of nine “things,” and need to figure out which one is not like the other. That one becomes a hint because it’s the theme of the next block of nine. For instance, if you had eight vegetables in the first group and a lemon, then lemon (and either fruits in general or terms for something that doesn’t work, etc) would become the theme of the next block.

You can only make nine mistakes, and you need to complete it before the time runs out. The nice thing is you can play the archives.

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