“As you go through life, make this your goal. Watch the donut, not the hole.”
— Burl Ives
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Posts Tagged ‘#365Ways2024’
What Matters Most
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, think positive, Thoughts on November 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Half Moon Rising
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, games, moon on November 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I know, I talk about the moon a lot, but it’s cool and bright and… has its own Art Deco-esque digital card game?
Google’s Rise of the Half Moon
Sure, that’s fun, why not? 🙂
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With Gratitude
Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, health, public health, vaccines on November 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I’ll just leave this link here, with gratitude to all the scientists and health care workers who have helped protect me, my family, and my community over the years.
Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
If you wonder why vaccines (and antibiotics, and other health fundamentals) are a big deal, ask your grandparents who they lost.
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Newsflash: Day Job Taking All Day
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, persistence, Thoughts on November 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I like work for a number of reasons but some days, I just need a little break. And, apparently, 11,000 Post-Its animating a year in the life of illustrator Daren Jannace.
Goofy, yes. Fun, yes. But the most useful message in this project for me is that even small amounts of work add up over time.
And now, back to work!
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A Very Monday Kind of Quote
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, even more work, more work, Thoughts, work on November 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
— Vince Lombardi
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Phase Fusion
Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, moon, photography, science on November 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »
As we’re right around the full (super!) moon this weekend (and I’m knee-deep in tech and tax stuff, super fun), here’s a composite image of the moon with amazing detail.
An Enormous Photo of the Moon Zooms in on the Cratered Lunar Topography in Incredible Detail
The self-taught Kurdish astrophotographer amassed 81,000 images, which he stitched into a 708-gigabyte composite revealing the intricacies of the lunar topography in stunningly high resolution.
Scroll down through the images to be impressed by the work of this self-taught astrophotographer.
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A Poem on the Occasion of the Year’s Last Supermoon
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, NASA, poetry, supermoon on November 16, 2024| 1 Comment »
This weekend marks the final supermoon in what has been a months-long fall cycle of supermoons. If you have a chance to look up, you can see the moon’s super hurrah for the year before its orbit takes it farther away from us.
Here’s NASA’s quick explanation for the supermoon, when the moon is closest to us, and its inverse, the micromoon.
The next full supermoon will be on November 5, 2025. Until then, a micropoem.
Night’s shadows await
the Moon’s sly smile, waxing bright
as She steals the stars.
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Seeds of Success
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, failure, persistence, success, Thoughts, writing on November 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it.”
— Paul Allen
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Humor, That’s the Ticket
Posted in Funny, Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Fiction, hope, humor, Thoughts on November 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Updates on the Arc of the Moral Universe – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
The arc of the moral universe is running very late. It’s sitting in standstill traffic behind a fleet of Amazon delivery vans, a burning Tesla, and a stretch limousine with Truck Nuts.
The arc of the moral universe is leaning on the horn.
The arc of the moral universe shouldn’t have stopped for that latte.
The arc of the moral universe owes you an apology.
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Dilithium All the Way?
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, future, genre fiction, star trek, think positive, Thoughts on November 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »
You know how some days a question gets stuck in your mind? For me today, it’s the question of where the energy comes from for Star Trek’s matter replicators. (Reminder: I came to Star Trek much later than Star Wars, and I’m ok with that.) Does everything in the ST universe run on dilithium?
Sure, I could look it up, but instead I’m going to use the distraction to keep the part of my mind that focuses on the future happily entertained, instead of stressfully worried. Because that leaves me with more positive energy for action.
Whatever it takes, right?
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