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Know Your Limits

Posted in Food and..., Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Thoughts on November 2, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Now that Halloween has come and gone, you may find yourself wondering what to do with all that candy. And really, does candy spoil?

Good* news, candy eaters, your typical Halloween treat will last well into the next season or even longer, depending on the type.

How Long Does Halloween Candy Last? – Eater

And on the off chance that you find yourself with an excess of aging candy (not a problem I generally have), these ideas might help:

What to Do With Leftover Halloween Candy

40 Best Leftover Halloween Candy Recipes – What To Make With Leftover Candy

15 Leftover Halloween Candy Recipes | The Kitchn

What to Do With Leftover Halloween Candy | Bon Appétit (Reese’s peanut butter cups in brownies? Sounds good. But Black Licorice Vinaigrette? No. Just… no.)

* Look, it’s been established that excess sugar is not great for our health. You know it, I know it, and the kids bouncing down the aisles at the grocery store before having a meltdown and collapsing into a sugar coma know it too. As the purveyors of other addictive products like to say, know your limits!

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Tuesday Plus One

Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Thoughts on November 1, 2023| Leave a Comment »

“A girl can be sad in one verse, but she can’t be sad in two verses. I just won’t have it.”
— Cher

* To be clear, Tuesdays are generally unfun around here for day-job related reasons. So Tuesday plus one? Much better!

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Not So Scary

Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Halloween, Thoughts on October 31, 2023| Leave a Comment »

To all those who celebrate, Happy Halloween!

Here’s a collection of holiday-related links to keep you entertained as you prepare for an evening of trick-or-treating. Or candy distribution. (Or holing up in your house and eating all that candy by yourself, your choice!)

Halloween Timeline: How the Holiday Has Changed Over the Centuries

The History of Halloween

Candy corn is still winning, despite its bad rap (of course it’s still winning, it’s the best!)

Chemistry Students Explode Pumpkins to Infuse Halloween With Science and Chemistry

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You’ll Go Down in History

Posted in Funny, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, inspiration, weird contests on October 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »

On the off chance that you’ve been sitting on iron-clad evidence of alien activity, this one’s for you.

Ring is awarding $1 million for capturing extraterrestrial activity

The contest, open only to Americans at least 18 years old, is to capture “unaltered scientific evidence of a real extraterrestrial lifeform” with a Ring device.

Videos must be submitted by Nov. 3, 2023, at 11:59 p.m.

I mean, if you do happen to capture an alien on camera, I’m pretty sure it won’t matter where you come from or what kind of device you used.

You’ll still go down in history.

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The Perennial Question

Posted in Entertainment, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, booksbooksandmorebooks, inspiration, reading lists, recommendations on October 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I spend a not-insignificant amount of time asking that most critical of reader questions: What should I read next?

Goodreads can be helpful, as can library collections, author interviews and award lists. Even pure chance can lead to delightful finds, and I’m always on the lookout for new and interesting book ideas.

Enter this website:

What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you

I’m having fun sorting through the mix of books known and unknown. Perhaps you will too.

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Goals

Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Thoughts on October 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »

You do you, but today, I’m aiming for awesome.

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Do You Doodle?

Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, art, artists, creativity, technology on October 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »

This is for the artists out there.

New tool lets artists fight AI image bots by hiding corrupt data in plain sight

From Hollywood strikes to digital portraits, AI’s potential to steal creatives’ work and how to stop it has dominated the tech conversation in 2023. The latest effort to protect artists and their creations is Nightshade, a tool allowing artists to add undetectable pixels into their work that could corrupt an AI’s training data…

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From the “Things I Did Not Know” Files

Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, innovation, Science and Technology, Thoughts on October 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I did not know that solar panels have been around for more than a century.

I did not know that one of the early pioneers in this field was a Canadian inventor named George Cove.

And I did not know that Cove was on the brink of bringing solar power to the masses when he was kidnapped and threatened unless he closed down his company.

If the first solar entrepreneur hadn’t been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did?

While researching the economics of clean energy innovation, I came across a little-known story: that of Canadian inventor George Cove, one of the world’s first renewable energy entrepreneurs. Cove invented household solar panels that looked uncannily similar to the ones being installed in homes today – they even had a rudimentary battery to keep power running when the Sun wasn’t shining. Except this wasn’t in the 1970s. Or even the 1950s. This was in 1905.

It sounds like that wasn’t the only reason Cove’s company collapsed, but whoever was behind the actions against him clearly had, shall we say, other interests at heart. Spare a thought for George Cove and other creators who were either ahead of their time or swept aside.

While we’re here, enjoy these images of early electric cars, milk trucks, and… baby carriages?

Shock of the old: the amazing, infuriating history of the electric car – in pictures

Believe it or not, battery-powered vehicles have been around since Victorian times – everything from private automobiles to taxis, ambulances and tricycles. We’ve got the photos to prove it.

History is a fascinating place, full of lessons for the future.

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*“a futuristic image of a baby in a flying stroller, with a cloud city in the background, photorealistic” (Bing Image Creator, Generated with AI)*

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An Uncommon Place

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, #wotf39, creativity, interviews, podcast, scifi, speculative fiction, Thoughts, writing on October 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I was recently invited to be a guest on the West Virginia Uncommon Place podcast. It was a fun interview, and I enjoyed the opportunity to explore multiple facets of writing, including how the landscapes and ideas we think of as home influence our creativity.

An Interview with Jennifer R. Johnson: Unveiling the World of Science Fiction Writing – WV Uncommon Place | Podcast on Spotify

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