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Daily life in Arab world<\/strong>
\nMy wife and I both devoured a series of graphic novels penned by a French-Arab cartoonist Riad Sattouf. In a five-volume set (so far), called\u00a0The Arab of the Future<\/a>, Riad recounts his family\u2019s time in Lybia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and France. A graphic novel is the perfect format for this intimate, yet cinematic, and at times, disturbing story. It superbly conveys the texture and details of everyday life in the Arab world with the unfiltered gaze of a child. And it reads very fast, perfect for my current short attention span. I can\u2019t wait for more volumes. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

LED Edison-style bulbs<\/strong>
\nI bought a 48-foot string of these\u00a0Edison-style LED bulbs<\/a>\u00a0for our back patio. They\u2019re bright enough to provide light without being harsh. The bulbs are plastic so they won\u2019t shatter. They add the perfect ambiance for evening get-togethers. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Trope wiki<\/strong>
\nTvtropes.org<\/a>\u00a0is a repository of all the tropes you find in advertising, film, print, music, art, etc., along with examples. Tropes are not cliches \u2014 they are storytelling devices and shortcuts for evoking emotion and getting you \u201cup to speed.\u201d It\u2019s hard to avoid tropes altogether, so it\u2019s better to get to know them. This is a growing wiki that you can add to and easily get lost in. Here is a list of\u00a0Forgotten Tropes<\/a>\u00a0that have dropped off from mainstream media. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Daily life in Tokyo<\/strong>
\nMy family loves watching this YouTube series about the\u00a0day in a life of various people in Japan<\/a>. The creator, Paolo, spends an entire day with different workers \u2014 a game programmer, a firefighter, a butcher, a ramen chef, a hotel staffer, and so on. He records them from the moment they wake in the morning until they go to bed at night. Each episode is about 15 minutes long. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Better mouse trap<\/strong>
\nThis is a gruesome recommendation, but necessary. It\u2019s a better mouse trap. We live in an old rambling house at the edge of wilderness, with no cat, so we have a plague of mice and rats in the basement and garage. As fast as I remove them, they are replaced by newcomers. I\u2019ve tried dozens of different traps, including live traps, and sticky traps, and classic traps, and all fail over time. The best, most reliable, and most re-useable one is\u00a0Tomcat Rat Snap Trap<\/a>, which is a pedal type trap. (There are now other pedal type brands I have not tried.)\u00a0Its main advantage is that it works for both mice and rats. Mice can eat the bait on an ordinary rat trap without tripping it, while a rat can escape a mouse trap. With peanut butter bait this one consistently gets both. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

42 quotes about the Hero’s Journey<\/strong>
\nHere is a\u00a0curated list of Joseph Campbell quotes<\/a> meant to pump you up before heading out on your own hero\u2019s journey.
\nHere are my favorites:<\/p>\n