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CORAL VINE / MEXICAN CREEPER
I was recently sitting at a coffee shop and really loved the vines growing that provided shade. Turns out they’re called Coral Vines, Mexican Creepers, or Antigonon leptopus. Their flowers can bloom all year long, the leaves are heart-shaped (cordate).
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MANCHEGO CHEESE
Manchego cheese is a Spanish sheep cheese, named after the kind of sheep (Manchega sheep) that’s producing the milk this cheese is made of. It has a pretty intense taste (as you would expect from cheese made from sheep milk), but not overpowering, is rich and creamy in taste. The texture depends on the age.…
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HOW A 4-YEAR-OLD DID THE VOICEOVER FOR PEPPA PIG
This is so random, but I still thought it was an interesting tidbit. The original voice of Peppa Pig was a 4-year-old girl who couldn’t read the script. So they had her mom read the lines to her, and the girl would then copy her. I thought that’s an interesting way of doing things, and…
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Neuralink: Telepathic typing, brain-implant robots & more
I’m not a tech person, but it’s amazing what Neuralink is up to. If you haven’t watched this the recent demonstration, it’s worth spending a few minutes watching this: A monkey that types with the power of his mind, without using his hand or actually tapping keys on a physical keyboard. If that’s not science…
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THIS PAINTING WENT FROM $10K IN 2005 TO $450M IN 2017
In 2005, Sotheby’s sold Leonardo DaVinci’s painting Salvator Mundi for $10,000. Twelve years later, in 2017, Saudi Prince Bader bin Abdullah bought paid $450,000,000 for it. How did this happen? It’s a fascinating story that Naha Tandon Sharma recently told in an article for Luxurylaunches, but the tldr is: The UAE and Saudi Arabia are…
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THE DOOR-TO-DOOR SALES GAME: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SOLAR SALES REP IN FLORIDA
Many years ago I used to work as a door-to-door salesman, selling event tickets and experiences to companies. I wasn’t particularly successful at it, but it was a good challenge, and an experience I cherish even know, because it taught me a lot. The Tampa Bay Times recently published an interesting article about door-to-door salesmanship…
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That physics paper with “Never Going To Give You Up…”
This is one of the reasons why I love the internet: This is a pic of a physics paper a student handed in. This happened in 2014, but thanks to the internet, we still get to enjoy it today.
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Peppertype.ai review for AI-assisted long-form content writing (November 2022)
I’ve been trying out various AI-writing tools. I’m generally not a fan of AI-generated content, because quite frankly: the last thing we need is machines that churn out more content. So while I don’t like AI-generated content, I think AI-assisted content can be a great thing if used mindfully. Artificial Intelligence has been making major…
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The most randomly ecclectic blog ever?
This blog is going to be about all kinds of things, and there’s going to be very little rhyme or reason to it. I’ll write about whatever comes to mind here, without much planning or afterthought, and in this way, I’m writing it mainly for an audience of one: myself. It’s a kind of public…