{"id":27162,"date":"2016-08-14T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=27162"},"modified":"2016-09-02T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:59:15","slug":"death-countdownhow-to-wrap-cablesrevisionist-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/death-countdownhow-to-wrap-cablesrevisionist-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Death countdown\/How to wrap cables\/Revisionist History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HACK<\/strong>: I hacked up a death countdown clock to show me how many days I have left to live. I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeexpectancycalculators.com\/actuarial-life-tables.html\" target=\"_blank\">actuarial tables<\/a> for life expectancy to determine how old a typical person my age will live to, and then input that date into the <a href=\"http:\/\/datecountdown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Date Countdown<\/a> website. It shows me that I have an estimated 6,300 days to live. Each day that small sum really focuses me. (BTW, your longevity increases over time because of science, so every few years you need to adjust your due date.) \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONSUMABLES<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powdercity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Powder City<\/a> sells bulk powder nutrients for a fraction of the cost of pills. I buy L-Theanine, which I take when I drink tea and coffee to keep me from feeling jittery. I have also tried Phenibut HCL, a tranquilizer developed by Russia in the 1960s for their astronaut program. It works for insomnia, but I stopped because I don\u2019t want to get addicted. They also sell lots of nootropics (aka \u201csmart drugs\u201d), which I have not tried. To use these powders, you\u2019ll need a sensitive scale, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0012LOQUQ\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=recomendos-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B0012LOQUQ&amp;linkId=425aa4f4151613931ab1e1573b340a05\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>APP<\/strong>: I needed to make a cartoon thumbnail portrait of myself so I used a free app for iOS and Android to render my photo into artwork. <a href=\"http:\/\/prisma-ai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prisma<\/a> uses artificial intelligence to \u201credraw\u201d any photo on your phone into a painting done in 20 different artistic styles, including cartoony ones. (It\u2019s similar to a previous app Prizmo, but renders the art almost instantly.) \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOOLS<\/strong>: Two of my favorite bookmarked sites for quick formatting fixes are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.striphtml.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">StripHTML<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/convertcase.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Convert Case<\/a>. StripHTML strips all formatting from text, and Convert Case transforms text to lower case, all caps, sentence case, title case, etc. \u2014 CL<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIP<\/strong>: I made a 30-second video that shows <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v31a91-how-to-wrap-a-charging-cable-so-it-doesnt-get-tangled.html?mref=7hb9&amp;mc=13vbt\" target=\"_blank\">how to wrap cables<\/a> so that they stay wrapped, don\u2019t get tangled, and are very easy to unwrap. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENTERTAINMENT<\/strong>: A new podcast I am enjoying is <a href=\"http:\/\/revisionisthistory.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s Revisionist History<\/a>. You get typical Gladwellian reporting, voiced by Gladwell himself. His theme is the re-telling of things \u201ceveryone knows,\u201c so that these \u201cofficial\u201d stories are inverted, reversed, undermined, or in some way seen new. It\u2019s contrarian by design. If you like his books, you\u2019ll like his podcast and vice versa. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p>Want to get our next Recomendo a week early in your inbox? Sign up for next Sunday newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/Recomendo\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo: issue no. 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[41,2323],"tags":[2324],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27238,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27162\/revisions\/27238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}