Intro / Preface / Extra Words
Calvin and Brian have been getting into disc golf lately. Any sport where you can drink a beer, stroll and chat with friends, and still convince everyone you know you were active and athletic that day is OK in our books. We'd like to think this issue also lends itself to having a bevvy, a stroll, and a chat.
Enjoy.
Heavy Rotation
Brushy Brush PSA
This particularly lit jam has been on repeat at the Morris home every night for a couple weeks. Thanks to Amanda for finding this and helping our daughter not hate brushy brush brushing her teeth so much. - Calvin
Food
Why do the hashbrowns at McDonald's taste so much better than the ones I make at home?
First of all, the person asking this question may have a particularly low bar for food that tastes good. But ANYWAY - this is how to cook the exact same hashbrowns that you can get at McDonald's, in case that's a thing you need to know how to do. – Calvin
TravelMASity
Lisbon City Travel Guide
A great intro to my favorite city in the whole world. Katie and I just returned from a little wander around the Lisboa area and we recommend it to anyone who likes seafood, vinho verde, port, castles, beaches, and just general old world charm. Portugal is also one of the cheapest ways to experience Europe without all the dense crowds of tourists. -Brian
You Fancy, Huh
Burning Man Disinvites Super-Elite Camp for Extremely Fancy People
Get your boozhie (boojie? bougie?) booties off the playa bros. -Brian
Sports (Disc Golf)
Spurs’ mascot snares bat while dressed as Batman
Be sure to watch the other video linked in this post from 2009, featuring Ginobili swatting a bat mid-air, then picking it up BARE-HANDED and handing it off to someone who apparently is in charge of removing bats from the arena. - Calvin
I love technology (and science)
The World Might Actually Run Out of People
Either the earth will drown and collapse under an unsustainable level of humanity, or we aren't making enough new humans as the world rapidly modernizes and eventually we will collapse back to a fraction of the current population. Our whole economy is based on the second derivative–growth–which is only sustainable in a world where efficiency gains + population growth > 0. If that equation drops below zero, the whole economic system of the globe needs to be re-worked and I don't have a lot of confidence that that will be a smooth process.
The other interesting implication is, even if that equation stays positive, the balance between the rewards of labor and the rewards of capital is highly susceptible to the value of population growth / efficiency gains. Some postulate that during previous population collapses (plagues et al) wages increased rapidly while the ROI for investment dropped. When the population expands, wages stagnate and ROI's increase. Makes sense I guess; as more people means more competition for jobs, and less people means more competition for workers.
TL:DR I don't know...and now I have a headache. -Brian
The Foxes That Came in From the Wild
Courtesy of Joe D. comes this really fascinating look at how humans domesticate animals. For the last sixty years, a lab has been breeding foxes for domestication and tracking how other things (cute faces, fluffy tails) develop through the hundreds of generations and tens of thousands of fox'eses lineages. -Brian
We drive Buckminster Fuller's terrifying Dymaxion car (so you don't have to)
Sometimes I forget how I find my way to certain links; I'm pretty sure this was at the bottom of a fairly deep rabbit hole that originated on Quora. This is a review of a strange-looking vehicle designed by someone who knows a lot about boats and not a lot about cars. - Calvin
Further Reading
Thinking like a UX designer – Andrew Millen
File this under "articles loosely related to what Calvin does for a living". This piece was penned by the highly talented Andrew Millen, who sits right beside me at work. I hope our daily proximity will result in my absorption of some of his skillz, via osmosis or something. - Calvin