{"id":36875,"date":"2020-08-30T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=36875"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:41:07","slug":"netgalleyhappy-happy-joy-joythe-weeklypedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/netgalleyhappy-happy-joy-joythe-weeklypedia\/","title":{"rendered":"NetGalley\/Happy Happy Joy Joy\/The Weeklypedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Advance reader ebooks<\/strong>
\nIf you are a \u201cperson of influence,\u201d particularly when it comes to books, and you\u2019d like to read books before they are published (so you can rave about them when they are), you can sign up at\u00a0NetGalley<\/a>\u00a0and get digital \u201cadvance reader copies (ARC)\u201d of upcoming books. This is an early ebook edition used to promote the book. Most titles are available to all members, but some books need to be requested. For avid readers who like to talk about what they are reading, NetGalley is a handy service. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Happy Happy Joy Joy Tragedy Tragedy<\/strong>
\nBy the early 1990s television cartoons had hit a depressing nadir. The stories, art, characters, and animation were terrible, and the cartoons existed for the sole reason of selling toys and merchandise. Then along came\u00a0Ren & Stimpy<\/em>, a hyperkinetic, rubbery, explosive, hilarious, and beautifully animated cartoon that harked back to the era when Bob Clampett and Tex Avery were producing insanely great work for Looney Tunes.\u00a0Ren & Stimpy<\/em>\u00a0changed the course of animation. The documentary\u00a0Happy Happy Joy Joy<\/a>\u00a0recounts the tragic history of\u00a0Ren & Stimpy<\/em>\u00a0and features extensive interviews with everyone involved, including its creator, John Kricfalusi, a supremely talented animator, a sadistic tyrannical boss, and sexual predator of teenage girls. \u00a0\u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Stay up-to-date on most-edited Wikipedia articles<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve found another way to keep up with what\u2019s happening in the world, that doesn\u2019t involve \u201cdoomscrolling,\u201d and that is signing up for\u00a0The Weeklypedia<\/a>. Once a week, I\u2019ll get an email summarizing the top 20 Wikipedia articles with the most changes, the 10 most actively edited articles created in the past week and most active discussions on Wikipedia (No. 5 last week was Kamala Harris citizenship conspiracy theories). Here is the\u00a0most recent issue<\/a>. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Search engine for comparing measurements<\/strong>
\nI like having\u00a0The Measure of Things<\/a>\u00a0handy for those really random moments when I want to visualize the size of something, like how big or how much, in units I might understand better. For example\u00a04 fluid ounces<\/a>\u00a0is about three-fourths as big as a tennis ball, and\u00a0500,000 acres<\/a>\u00a0is 1.075 times bigger than the size of Maui. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Bargain Beans<\/strong>
\nMy family is drinking a lot more coffee than we used to. We go through about a pound of whole espresso beans per week. On a whim, I bought Amazon\u2019s brand,\u00a0Go for the Bold<\/a>, which comes in 2 lb bags. It\u2019s better tasting than Starbucks, about the same as Pete\u2019s, and costs quite a bit less. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Ultimate portable tripod<\/strong>
\nI believe in \u201cearning\u201d any best-in-class tools; start out cheap and move up through use. Over my 50 years in photography I\u2019ve used and owned many tripods, so I was ready \u2014 and willing to pay for \u2014 a world-class state-of-the art tripod. Last year on Kickstarter I sprung for what I consider the best portable travel tripod ever. It\u2019s a carbon-fiber\u00a0Peak Design Tripod<\/a>. It\u2019s ingeniously compact (full size folds into the diameter of a water bottle), feather lightweight, opens and closes rapidly easily, and is remarkably ridgid, even at 6 feet. Its head mount is fast, fluid, and agile. It fits into a daypack, or carry-on luggage, and is optimized for a tripod you have to carry a lot, but of course works in a studio as well. The Peak Tripod is a masterpiece of design and fabrication. I love using it. The aluminum version is $350, while the ultimate carbon fiber model is $600. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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