A very important question
The Modern Farmer asks what I already knew the answer to in my heart:
Who are better problem solvers: Sheep or goats?
Post panini behavior
Hank Green, the other 50% of the veteran Youtube duo Vlogbrothers asks a question I must ask myself too working in an industry that changed (mostly in sheer volume) due to the panini: How will post pandemic behavior change?
There’s a blank version of the chart in the video’s description so I started to make my own:
Note: Some of these things are also effected by me living in Germany now. There are WAY fewer powerlifting gyms here in the first place and movies are dubbed and theaters that show movies in English are just as rare as the gyms I miss.
Would you like to play a game…
… is something I wouldn’t be surprised of the Antikythera mechanism asking at this point as researchers uncovered the “Cosmos” side of it slicing it into sheets using X-Rays. And yes! That’s almost like the letters I mentioned here two weeks ago!
What an amazing machine. And I cannot wait for the video following up on building it only using technology available more then 2000 years ago.
Take the “A” Train - All the way
If you’re an infrastructure and public transport enthusiast like me you might be playing Cities Skylines just for the joy of envisioning a car-free city. Or you cherish Mini Metro for a more minimalist approach.
Photo by CapturebyWells on Unsplash
But I only need to have ridden on the NYC subway once to know that building and maintaining a megastructure like the MTA is hard work and this Sunday’s New York Times podcast “The Daily” makes you appreciate even more that it’s even a thing.
If Central Park is the lung of NYC, the MTA is its veins.
What made me happy this week
And at last… The CHILLS.
I do not want to spoil ANYTHING but there was a scene in the finale of the excellent new DuckTales show that gave me chills across my whole body. A deep cut, not even five seconds long, to another animated series by Disney. This is vague on a grandiouse level, I know. But once you see it, you know. YOU WILL KNOW.
I do enjoy the building of a general Disney Universe, and saw a comment that encapsulates this show perfectly:
Disney: So how many references do you want for the Ducktales Finale?
Writers: Yes.