Scrapbook March and April 2026

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Scrapbook March/April 2026

1. Facts
1. Every day 900,000 cows, more than 1 million goats, 4 million pigs turned into meat. Move in for the Cu by Elizabeth Kilbert NYer. 
2. Cool Things
1. Ubu Web - Marshall McLuhan
2. Dave Sparks - Walkable Cities video
3. Anna's Archive - link
4. In Our Time archive - Braggoscope
3. Dave Organization
1. DRL Yearly (chores) and Monthly Checklist
2. Weekly checklist/Dashboard
4. Fitness links
1. Shoulder mobility, whole body  - carlaf yoga -
2. arch control 1 - toe flexion with a band
3. arch control 2 - excellent seated series overview
4. arch control 3 - correct calf raise
5. balance 1 - older man stands on one leg, passes light kettle bell in circles around himself
6. balance 2 - tom morrison - stand on one leg, then cross arms, then close eyes, then turn head
7. spine spirals - mandy f - sit cross legged, hands behind head, series of circles, reaches, sometimes lean back on one arm
8. No gym? james clear - push ups, squats, lunges, planks 
5. Recipes/Cooking
1. Roasted cabbage at 425 - covered for 30, uncovered for 10-15 - cumin, garlic, thyme
6. People to follow
1. Lily Abadal philosophy professor - here talking about a group assignment 
7. Music/Guitar
1. Jazz chords - small changes in fingerings to change chords
2. Chicago Super Fans 10,000 Secret Recordings of Chicago concerts
3. for practice: Mustang Micro Headphone Guitar Amp
8. Teaching
1. WriteOut- 12 poetry ideas?! pretty website, too
2. More  writing ideas from Write Out - and index of other writing ideas to explore - STEAM, Story, YouTube Events
3. About Julia Cameron's Morning Pages
4. About Yale's Daily Theme Class
9. Art of Nerding
1. Here's The Walden Woods Project of all of HDT's journals.
2. YouTube Harvard Course - Justice by Michael Sandel
10. Things that might make it into the Commonplace book
1. D is for Dada.  Podcast: 
2. Indexing, History of.  part 1 (subject index); part 2 (outline for a sermon); general notes from book, a distinctio-collection,... series of targeted sorties into source material
11. Who are great explainers, and who are also experimentalists in how and what they build. Pask Makes continually learns and explores new skills, John Heisz is a born innovator with tools and master technician, and Matthias Wandel, makes his own shop tools from plywood. They are fantastic teachers, never boring.
12. I am a big fan of YouTuber Ali Abdaal. In this video about Resumes he condenses a whole book of information presenting the best advice for applying for a job into 30 minutes. It’s the same advice I gave to my kids when they started working. Whether you are looking for a job, or hiring someone, this is worth your time. Forward it to a young person. — KK
13. Every December, writer Tom Whitwell publishes an eclectic list of 52 surprising things Whitwell learned over the year. It’s one of my favorite year-end reads.  Browse his previous lists here.
14. I recently spent time with friends who mounted a 36-inch by 200-foot kraft paper roll with a steel dispenser and cutter at the end of their work table.
15. Alpkit have supported me brilliantly this year. Here is their handy guide to help you nail gifts for hillwalkers, trail runners, outdoor swimmers, mountain dwellers, climbers, munro baggers, roadies, trail riders, paddlers... 
16. Humphries: Definitive list of books as gifts (with link to past years) 
17. Often science documentaries these days are fluffy with wiz-bang graphics, slick re-enactments, endless repetitions, and fancy hosts, but Doug’s Geology Journal, a series on Amazon Prime, has none of those.
18. Two Minute Papers is a YouTube channel featuring short videos (sometimes 5 minutes long) created by a professor who reviews new research papers in visual programming, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer graphics, simulations, and other state-of-the-art computer science. He explains the research’s significance, while running very cool graphics demo-ing the results. I find it a painless way to keep up in this fast moving field. — KK
19. Full year calendar on one page - link
20. Quotes
1. It takes a lot of work to make something simple. — Steve Wozniak
2. Everyone searches for opportunities while running from problems, missing that they’re the same thing. Problems aren’t obstacles to opportunity, they ARE the opportunity. — Shane Parrish
3. When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them “No I went to films.” — Quentin Tarantino
4. The three lenses of opportunity cost: (1) Compared with what? (2) And then what? (3) At the expense of what? — Shane Parish