{"id":38295,"date":"2021-05-01T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=38295"},"modified":"2021-04-26T11:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:15:24","slug":"see-a-satellitenesting-bowlssecret-life-of-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/see-a-satellitenesting-bowlssecret-life-of-components\/","title":{"rendered":"See a Satellite\/Nesting bowls\/Secret Life of Components"},"content":{"rendered":"

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See a satellite tonight<\/strong>
\nA Google engineer made\u00a0this cool website<\/a>\u00a0where you can track satellites that crawl across your neighborhood sky. It will give you times and names of the satellites that are coming your way and even show you how it\u2019ll appear in the night sky with Google Street View. I\u2019ve been setting alarms on my phone to go outside and look. Of course, it\u2019s made me realize how much light pollution we have. Hopefully, you don\u2019t have as much. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Nesting bowls with airtight lids<\/strong>
\nNow that my wife and I are vaccinated, we\u2019re enjoying backyard visits with friends. I bought this set of\u00a06 nesting stainless steel bowls<\/a>. They\u2019re good for bringing food to a backyard barbecue. The largest one is 7 quarts \u2014 capacious enough for a large salad. The lids form a tight seal, too, which means they won\u2019t fall off in the car ride over. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Ultimate workshop course<\/strong>
\nThe best course I\u2019ve ever taken in workshop skills is a series of YouTube episodes by the British inventor Tim Hunkin. In his\u00a0Secret Life of Components<\/a>\u00a0he goes through all he knows about the \u201ccomponents\u201d you\u2019d use to build something: glues, fasteners, hinges, bearings, switches, springs, etc., and he knows an awful lot. Every minute is crammed with the practical advice of a master craftsman gained over decades of experience. I\u2019m wowed by how much I learned. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Turn your smartphone into a Game Boy Camera<\/strong>
\nMy daughter bought a vintage Game Boy Camera and thermal printer on eBay. It takes very low resolution photos that have a nostalgic charm. Recently I came across this\u00a0web-based simulation of the Game Boy Camera<\/a>. It\u2019s fun to see what things look like in a two-color palette of blocky pixels.\u00a0Here\u2019s sample<\/a>. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

How to wake up early advice<\/strong>
\nHere is a\u00a05-step plan for waking up earlier and with more energy<\/a>\u00a0shared by u\/FrankOppedijk on Reddit. The key advice I found is once you decide how many hours you need for sleep and develop your relaxing bedtime routine, you start by shifting your wake up time by 5 minutes each day, and you energize yourself using various techniques like natural bright light, drinking water, an activating breathing exercise like\u00a0Bellows Breath<\/a>, or quick heart-pumping exercise. I found it very encouraging. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

The stories of colors<\/strong>
\n\u201cI love it when someone wakes me up to see what I was sleepwalking through. Adam Roger does that in this book. He showed me that the colors we see everywhere today are technologies we invented! Invented colors! Head explodes!\u201d That\u2019s the blurb I wrote for Roger\u2019s new book\u00a0Full Spectrum.<\/a>\u00a0Reproducing the colors of nature is not easy, yet despite being surrounded by manufactured colors in our modern lives, the story of these inventions are invisible. This is one of those books that opens up a world right in front of my nose. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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