Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, language, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »
What are the most beautiful words in the English language? Here is one person’s list:
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language – Dr. Robert Beard
Not so sure about “moeity” but I like the first one:
Ailurophile A cat-lover.
* Thanks to Messy Nessy for spotlighting this!
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Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, Writers on August 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, AI, technology, Thoughts, tips&tricks on August 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I don’t usually curse, and when I do I try to pick my moments. Now that we’re in the AI era, here’s one such moment:
“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews
If you search Google for a way to turn off the company’s AI-powered search results, you may well get an AI Overview telling you that AI Overviews can’t be directly disabled in Google Search. But if you instead ask Google how to turn off “f***ing Google AI results,” you’ll get a standard set of useful web suggestions without any AI Overview at the top. (asterisks added to protect delicate reader sensibilities)
Seems to work with DuckDuckGo too. A handy tip for the modern age!
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, inspiration, quoteandaprettypicture, Thoughts on August 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
― Howard Thurman
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, quoteandaprettypicture, Thoughts on August 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I’m interpreting this in the best possible light, of course. I mean, I can be a bit of a procrastinator, but my goal is not to be the best procrastinator I possibly can. I try to choose my targets wisely!
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Posted in Food and..., Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Socrates, Thoughts on August 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »
If you, like me, are the sort of person to go out on a summer’s day and admire the pretty, harmless-looking white flowers at the side of a path and think to yourself, “Didn’t my mom tell me that this was Queen Anne’s Lace, and that the roots are edible and taste a lot like carrots?” then this helpful and informative post may be for you.
Because some plants look harmless but are very much not. Poison hemlock is one such plant.
Beware Poison Hemlock, A Queen Anne’s Lace Look-Alike
Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) is an invasive, toxic plant. It is native to the United States but has naturalized in many places. Its flowers look strikingly like those of Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota) because both are umbellifers belonging to the carrot family. However, the resemblances end right there.
I have a lot of fun identifying all of the edible plants around us, most of which have been categorized as weeds by Big Lawn™ but are fabulous in their own right. That said, it very much pays to know whether you’re looking at an underrated food source for pollinators and people, or the plant that killed Socrates.
Unsure? I recommend what I think of as my mushroom rule: If you aren’t 1000% certain, move on.
Just in case!
(Honestly, I never pick mushrooms. They’re both fascinating and scary, and 1000% is a lot of percents. And thanks to Nomadic Noesis for the idea!)
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, artists, quotes, Thoughts on August 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.”
— Patti Smith
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Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, exercise, Thoughts, Writers on August 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »
We all know we should be exercising more, especially those of us whose work requires a lot of computer time. (Hello, fellow writers!)
This is a pretty fun way of thinking about it, though.
How exercise may be the ‘most potent medical intervention ever known’ | PBS News
One of the things I regularly tell my patients — I’m a cardiologist — is that one minute of exercise buys you five minutes of extra life, which means you definitely have time to exercise, because, even if you exercise even a little bit higher intensity, you get seven or eight minutes of extra life.
So you definitely have time to make in your day to exercise. — Euan Ashley, professor of cardiovascular medicine and genetics at Stanford University
It’s like compound interest but for health. Invest a little, get a lot.
I’ll remind myself of this the next time I’m tempted to sleep in instead of work out:)
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, kindness, quotes, Thoughts on August 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »
As far as quotes go, I’ve been on a kindness kick lately. That’s not a bad thing!
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Posted in Other, Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, astronauts, heroes, inspiration, NASA, Thoughts on August 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Astronaut James Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97
“James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.”
(If you’re curious, here’s a quick refresher on the Apollo program.)
And because so many of us know of Lovell from the excellent movie version of his most famous mission, here’s Tom Hanks’ appreciation:
Tom Hanks pays tribute to Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell
“There are people who dare, who dream, and who lead others to the places we would not go on our own. Jim Lovell, who for a long while had gone farther into space and for longer than any other person of our planet, was that kind of guy.”
Here’s to the brave, to the can-do, to the explorers among us. Humanity is the better for you.
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