Olympic Metallica
Amazing camera work shows how incredible their performance is.
Here’s the Team USA Ice Dancers filmed during their 2020-21 Free Dance in Bryant Park’s Winter Village ice rink at 6:45 in the morning over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Lego omelets
Love this style of Lego animation.
Deck the Halls?
A pretty unique rendition of Deck the Halls – as sung to the tune War Pigs from Black Sabbath.
Copyright free chill/ambient music
Are you slapping together that next big startup idea pitch reel? Want to become a streamer or Youtube star? At some point, you’re going to need some background music to fill dead spaces, set the tone, etc. But how does one avoid a dreaded DMCA takedown?
While there are lots of online shops that will sell you royalty-free music, I usually find myself running off to find the amazing amounts of free stuff out there – like this.
Vector graphics rises again
Mitxela decided to make his own game console. He built the whole thing: the hardware, bios, sound, and even games (in assembly language no less). It uses an oscilloscope to generate the output.
What a guy. Read more about it here.
Proper wine/beer pairing with a McRib
Finding Forrest Fenn’s Treasure
In 2010, Forrest Fenn hid a treasure chest containing gold and other valuables estimated to be worth well over a million dollars. The only clue to its location was a 24 line clue-filled poem.
What followed was a decade of treasure hunters searching, trespassing, harrassing, breaking into Fenn’s home, suing each other, going bankrupt, and even dying in pursuit of the treasure.
Yet on June 6, 2020 an unassuming 32-year-old Michigan native and medical student named Jack Stuef finally solved Fenn’s poem and found the treasure in Wyoming – after only 2 years of searching.
He has tried to stay anonymous and has kept the location secret in the post-finding madness. He says it is almost certainly what Fenn would have wanted – which shows the lengths he went to understand Fenn himself.
Which lends itself to the most fascinating aspect about his search technique:
The key was really just understanding Forrest Fenn. Stuef hunted solo, never discussed his search with others, stayed away from the blogs after his initial looks at them, and tried hard not to get caught up in any groupthink.
To read about Stuef’s search, the best way to find the treasure was to simply get to know the man. Which might have been Fenn’s whole goal – to have someone else really understand him. The final goal of a 90 year old man before he made his own departure shortly after the treasure was found.
Read more about the fascinating interview with the finder here:
https://www.outsideonline.com/2419429/forrest-fenn-treasure-jack-stuef
The elevator that goes up, down, left AND right.
Fun bit of engineering in Genoa Italy – the Ascensore Castello d’Albertis-Montegalletto.
Cats and Dominos
I love the personality differences between the two cats.