{"id":32081,"date":"2018-08-26T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=32081"},"modified":"2018-08-23T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T23:42:52","slug":"pocket-wifiparrot-teleprompterdo-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/pocket-wifiparrot-teleprompterdo-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocket WiFi\/Parrot Teleprompter\/Do nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cheap fast wireless for travel to Japan<\/strong><br \/>\nI spent almost five weeks in Japan this summer. My T-Mobile plan includes international data but it is pretty slow so I rented a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.econnectjapan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pocket WiFi from eConnect<\/a>. I ordered it in advance and picked it up at the post office at Narita Airport. I bought the 50GB plan for about $125. When I came close to running out (our traveling party of five used it pretty much non-stop on their phones and laptops) I bought more data for about $1 per GB. It was very fast and worked everywhere we went, including the remote mountain town of Koya-san. At the airport on the way home I put it in the return mailer and dropped it off at the post office. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affordable teleprompter<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I make videos where I need to talk to the camera (the audience) I can\u2019t remember what I need to say, so I use this affordable teleprompter. Teleprompters project my visible text on an angled glass that the camera is shooting through. Normally this is a very expensive very cumbersome rig, but the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2vUQUva\" target=\"_blank\">Parrot Teleprompter<\/a>\u00a0uses a cheap plastic case, glass mirror, and a selection of lens rings to fit on to many digital cameras. It cleverly uses your smart phone as the screen. For about $100 I got a perfectly useful compact teleprompter mounted on my tripod that worked exactly as I needed. I can deliver my lines easily while directly gazing at the viewers and it looks very natural. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do nothing for 2 minutes<\/strong><br \/>\nExpand\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.donothingfor2minutes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">this webpage<\/a>\u00a0to full-screen, turn up the sound and listen to ocean waves for two minutes. If you click on your mouse or press the keyboard the timer starts over. Just enjoy the break. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home blood type test<\/strong><br \/>\nMy 15-year-old daughter learned about blood types in school and was curious to learn her blood type. I ordered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2nNvUCk\" target=\"_blank\">two of these kits<\/a>\u00a0(each $7 kit has two tests) so our whole family could find our what our blood types are. The included auto-lance makes it easy to draw blood (it hurts just a little, not much) and it was interesting to see how our blood types clotted differently. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Safe alternative to candles<\/strong><br \/>\nThese\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedbathandbeyond.com\/store\/product\/luminara-reg-real-flame-effect-8-inch-battery-operated-taper-candles-in-ivory-set-of-2\/1044082314?categoryId=12628\" target=\"_blank\">Luminara battery-operated taper candles<\/a>\u00a0really do look real. I love having them on every night on the dining room table and watching the flame flicker. It makes the room look so elegant. There\u2019s even a timer setting to turn off automatically after 5 hours. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Five quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>The simplification of anything is always sensational. \u2014 G.K. Chesterton<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. \u2014 Bertrand Russell<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>You don\u2019t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. \u2014 C.S. Lewis<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Are we being good ancestors? \u2014 Jonas Salk<\/ul>\n<ul>When I grow up I want to be a little boy. \u2014 Joseph Heller<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Five quotes above that tickle me. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo: issue no. 109<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2323],"tags":[2324],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32083,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081\/revisions\/32083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}