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QR art<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A lot of the dots in a QR code are superfluous, meaning that they can be arranged into a picture, and not just randomly. Thus you can make the QR code into a picture. This neat little free website called QArt Coder<\/a> will generate a QR for a website you give it (say your homepage) using an image you give it (say your portrait), yielding a QR code with a stylized image of you (or say a logo, or totem). Short urls and small high contrast images work best. I\u2019m making stickers from my impressionist QR self-portrait<\/a>. Hold a phone to it, and it takes you to my home page. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pills on the go<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This pill organizer<\/a> is perfect for travel, but I also use it at home to organize my pills. It comes with seven boxes marked with the days of the week. Each box has two compartments for AM and PM. I take all my supplements in the morning, which allows me to organize my pills two weeks in advance. The seven boxes fit in a clear plastic case. On trips, I just bring the boxes I need. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find the most useful comments on Reddit<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Reddit’s search function is not pleasant to navigate, so whenever I discover a better search engine for it, I always get excited to share it widely. GigaBrain<\/a> is the newest and best search engine for finding product recommendations and experience-based answers from actual people. Whatever your question is, GigaBrain will extract from billions of Reddit comments and provide you with summarized results. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A better way to take photos on your smartphone<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This is something my daughter told me about. On Android and Apple phones, you can take a picture by pressing the volume up key. It\u2019s more convenient than touching the software button on the phone\u2019s display. I find it especially useful for taking street photography. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best things people have learned in therapy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Girls\u2019 Night In<\/a> is a newsletter I\u2019ve read for years and they recently solicited advice and learnings from therapy and shared it here: The Best Things We Learned in Therapy<\/a> (scroll down). In anxious or volatile moments, I like the reminder that “I can’t stop the waves, but I can learn how to surf<\/em>.” Or asking yourself, “What are you doing to contribute to your own unhappiness?<\/em>” \u2014 my mind automatically flips the question to, \u201cWhat can I do in this moment to contribute to my own happiness?\u201d I hope this is a reoccurring feature. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fashionable sci-fi<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The movie I have rewatched the most often is the sci-fi classic The Fifth Element<\/em>. Directed by Frenchman Luc Besson, it is sublime in most ways, especially its worldbuilding, and design style, which are influenced by French comic book artists rather than Hollywood. I somehow completely missed that Besson released another sci-fi film in 2017, this one based on a legendary French comic book series: Valerian<\/a><\/em>. I only recently discovered Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets<\/a><\/em> on Amazon Prime and have already rewatched it. Its plot is forgettable, but like the The Fifth Element, it\u2019s all about a playful, whimsical, baroque high-fashion future, a style not seen in Hollywood science fiction movies. (Valerian<\/em> is the most expensive indie film ever made.) This exuberant future seems to be more plausible than the sleek streamlined future we usually expect. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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