{"id":39135,"date":"2021-10-03T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=39135"},"modified":"2021-09-27T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:21:03","slug":"silent-mousethe-diamonda-third-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/silent-mousethe-diamonda-third-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent mouse\/The Diamond\/A third place"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Silent mouse<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had a mouse that made a loud noise when I clicked it. It distracted\u00a0 peopled I Zoomed with, so I replaced it with a\u00a0Logitech M590 Silent Touch Mouse<\/a>, which hardly makes a sound, yet has the same click feel as a regular mouse. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Video Poem<\/strong>
\nThe Diamond<\/a>\u00a0is a gem of a short 16-minute documentary. Utterly brilliant. People come to shift though the dirt in crater looking for rough diamonds, but what are they really hunting for? Bigger things. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Find yourself a third place<\/strong>
\nI love the concept of\u00a0a third place<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 a public space that is not your\u00a0home<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0work<\/em>\u00a0that can offer respite from your daily routine. Examples of third spaces can be a bookstore, pub, cafe, or park. \u201cThird places offer a neutral public space for a community to connect and establish bonds.\u201d Wellness blogger Patricia Mou wrote a great\u00a03-part series<\/a>\u00a0on third spaces where you can learn more about the definition of third spaces and the state of them in America today, as well as their future. This past year I\u2019ve mostly had one space, but there is a library that just re-opened within 5 blocks of me that I hope to become more familiar with. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Education in money<\/strong>
\nA free newsletter I find myself reading more than I thought would is\u00a0Money Stuff<\/a>\u00a0by Matt Levine. I am not that interested in finance, debt structure, bond rates, macro-economics, or really money itself, but Levine makes it so easy and clear, I can\u2019t help reading and learning. Here is a typical sentence: \u201dYour job, as an investment banker, is to become close to the people who possess giant piles of money, in the hopes that one day they will do giant deals with their giant piles of money and give you some of it.\u201d\u00a0 Money Stuff seems to arrive every weekday, and most days I read most of it, always learning. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Easiest way to watercolor<\/strong>
\nIt was always a painstaking process for me to color in between lines, and painting is too slow and methodical for my messy ways. I wish I had these\u00a0Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils<\/a>\u00a0when I was a kid. It\u2019s the easiest way to watercolor paint \u2014 and the fastest! I just scribble in a little color here and there and use\u00a0a water brush pen like this<\/a>\u00a0to transform the pigments into paint. I started with the 12 color set for around $20 and then upgraded myself to the 36 color set ($50) after I got more consistent with it. Maybe someday I\u2019ll earn the 120-color set. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Thousands of book covers<\/strong>
\nI love book cover design so it was a treat to discover\u00a0Ivan Checkov\u2019s Flicker gallery of book covers<\/a>\u00a0from the 1900s to the 1960s. Two of my favorites are the\u00a0cover for\u00a0The Monster Men<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1913) by Edgar Rice Burroughs, illustrated by J. Allen St. John, and the\u00a0cover for\u00a0A Silver Spade<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1950) by Louisa Revell, illustrated by Denis McLoughlin. (This review<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0A Silver Spade<\/em>\u00a0makes me want to read it). \u2014 MF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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