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The weird world of altruistic YouTube

The weird world of altruistic YouTube

It all started innocently enough. I bought a new lawn mower and searched YouTube to figure out how to use it well. I'd only ever mowed a tiny patch before and figured I should know what real landscaping people do in their jobs so I could replicate it.

My favorite YouTube video of 2023

My favorite YouTube video of 2023

The other day I was thinking about all the hundreds (maybe thousands?) of hours of YouTube I watched in the past year and how one unexpected video stuck with me for weeks. It was this one, about how to enjoy poetry. In all my 51 years, I've had

80s covers that are so good that they made me briefly forget about the original versions

80s covers that are so good that they made me briefly forget about the original versions

In no particular order:

Today's YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday's bloggers

Today's YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday's bloggers

I watch a ton of YouTube, on the order of an hour or two each day and I can honestly say the no-ads premium family account on YouTube is one of the best bargains on the internet for everyone in my house. Lately, YouTube creators are going through a reckoning,

Please don't destroy movie

I cannot WAIT for this new film to come out on Peacock. I have grown to love the Please Don't Destroy video shorts on SNL and love their writing (a slightly nerdier Lonely Island-type vibe). This trailer looks a bit like a Superbad-crossed-with-Goonies film but I'm

I am Kenough

I loved the Barbie movie so much I saw it twice. It's so much better than it had any right to be, and covered all sorts of thorny subjects like patriarchy and misogyny with wit and humor that it's certainly going to open up a lot

Crossing the Rubicon

Crossing the Rubicon

Last week I met up with some old work friends (and new friends) to tackle one of the most famous off-road trails in America, the Rubicon Trail. It's one of the few mountain crossings in the area that leads you to Lake Tahoe from the west side, but

Insane urban antics

When I was a kid and living on my bike pretty much all day every day, the one kind of rider I looked up to was the almighty Bike Messengers of NYC and SF. They rode fast, in tight traffic, brakeless. To a dumb 12 year old that thinks he

That pure uncut glacial shit

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

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

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

Testing out "Camp Mode" in the Rivian R1S

Three years ago, I decided to take the plunge after I saw some demo of the new Rivian EV trucks and SUVs that would be coming out "soon". Yesterday, a tow truck hit my driveway and unloaded my R1S and in the first day of ownership, it'

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&

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

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

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

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

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

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,

Some great videos on marriage equality and freedom

If you have some decent friends on facebook and twitter, chances are you've seen either/both of these before, but if not, they are both worth a watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBd-UCwVAY] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMLZO-sObzQ] Both make up some

INEBRIATION

Absolutely brilliant Inception parody:

Privacy and semi-permanence

Remember Merton, the chat roulette improv musician? I checked his youtube page today to see if there were any new videos (lo and behold, he uploaded one a few weeks ago I hadn't seen), and I eventually watched the older ones again. I remember the first one was

The folding Palm bluetooth keyboard works great on an iPhone

I made a quick video showing how those folding bluetooth keyboards setup and collapse, and give you the ability to write using a real keyboard: Sadly, the same keyboard I got for $43 on Amazon in December is now over $100 from a reseller. You could probably find one cheap

The Democratization of Everything

I've never watched Judge Joe Brown before, but this clip is great for the unexpected deep photography knowledge he drops on the defendant ("Where was your Canon 1D? You expect to get decent handheld shots with a 18-55 kit lens?! Where was your 28-70mm?). via hchamp

This is kind of awesome

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