grab bag vol. 5

Hello RSS Club!

Open tabs

There are only a couple of tabs open in my browser that are worth mentioning.

1. Researchers discovered that we humans prefer to walk to the left, period full-stop. Man, I love it when some new physics is discovered.
2. I have a couple of photographers open Brendon Burton and John Thomson (via KDO). I’m intrigued by both, but for different reasons.

Ideas

I had a couple of random ideas this week.

2. For some reason I wanted some random strings. I am not an expert in UUIDs or unique strings, but I kind of thought it would be fun to put together a single page site that collects a bunch of the functions for creating those. Every time you open the page it would (pseudo) randomly fill all the different hash values I could think of into copyable elements on the page. A bonus feature is that you could copy a link the page with the seed in the url so you could get back exactly that set of hashes again. I think I wanted to use the hash as a tag for a series of posts on this blog.
3. I fell down the sashiko rabbit hole this week. Of course in that situation I want the ultimate library of stitch patterns and history and applications and all the information there is to know about this beautiful technique. Not finding anything as deep as I wanted online, I naturally started contemplating making such a reference. I have yet to act on that impulse. I did find a few potentially good books that might suffice.

Request for X

Earlier this week, during the red flag warning, I wanted to keep an eye on the brush fires and such. I used to use Twitter for this, but that site is pretty locked down. I didn’t immediately find a good real time situation room type site for broad spectrum local area events and incidents. Any of you know of such a site, even if it’s not SFBA?

Open Thread

I want to try something new here, something a little community oriented. I invite you to share any old random thing you noticed or have open or want help with. Drop a comment and I’ll reply or try to help!

jg