If you live in the Pacific Northwest and ever wondered how the varied terrain got to be the way it is, this video is a concise, fascinating 18 minute deep-dive into the last ice age from 17,000-10,000 years ago and how today we can still see clues all over to explain how it all went …
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Everything is a Remix is great
The other day Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix magnum opus showed up in my recommendations and I imagine the uploaded file has a name like everything-is-a-remix_final_final_v25_no_really_finally.mp4 and even though I’ve watched half a dozen of his short videos and backed his kickstarters over the last 10-12 years, I watched the whole final version in …
One hell of a gaming table
I follow a lot of woodworkers on YouTube, some of it to learn some tricks of the trade I occasionally adopt in my own projects around the house, but mostly for the relaxing hours of watching people plane boards perfectly flat, or hypnotically using a lathe to make a wooden bowl, or watching people making …
My first off roading YouTube video
During my last trip to Moab, I tried out some trails northwest of the main Arches National Park entrance. For six months of the year, the main Arches entrance has a very long line set aside only for people that already grabbed a 1-hour reservation spot to enter, and they’re not easy to get. Last …
Blacks Beach/Torrey Pines real-time erosion
I was randomly scrolling YouTube and ended up watching about half a dozen videos capturing some landslides near San Diego, California, specifically in the Blacks Beach and Torrey Pines area. There’s been a ton of rainfall recently and as you watch this, much of it is simply mud and dirt that hasn’t been compressed over …
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Google Docs gripe
(I posted this on Mastodon but I might as well share here in the off chance any Googlers still read blogs) It’s utterly bonkers in the year 2022 you can’t embed a YouTube video directly in a Google Doc. Each time I’m working on a draft blog post for a client I take a screenshot …
How Jamiroquai did it
I guess I assumed the famous Jamiroquai music video from the mid-90s was filmed on some sort of magical Hollywood omnidirectional treadmill in a studio somewhere. The real behind the scenes story (recently uploaded to YouTube) of how they pulled off those shots is way more clever (and cheap!) than a super duper treadmill.
Who knew doing one sit-up perfectly is harder than it looks?
Lately though, he’s turned his challenges to things that are much easier, things that any random person on the street might be able to do. But when you’re testing average people, doing one pushup or one pull up is really quite hard. Today he released this video asking people to do one perfect, flat feet, …
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Things I learned after years of watching dashcam videos
I have an odd nightly routine where I often grab my iPad and some headphones before bed and watch 30-60min of random YouTube stuff before I drift off to sleep. One of the oddly relaxing things I watch are dashcam videos on YouTube. If you hear that and think I watch police chases or high …
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2Saxy
If you enjoy brass bands and/or jazz, watching Grace Kelly and Leo P improvise as they walk around Hollywood, California for TWENTY MINUTES NON STOP is pretty friggin incredible. If you’ve been around the internet for a while you probably recognize the guy playing the larger sax, he’s also known for Too Many Zooz as …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 