Awesome Things #2: Every Day Is Saturday

Hey Gang, it’s Vol. 2 of the newsletter. Thanks for sticking with me. 

I’m still trying to remember how to design in Mailchimp, so pardon any typos or weird formatting. It’s a work in progress.

The most opened link last week –  by a landslide  – was the link to Supercook. I know I have a lot of foodie friends, so maybe I’ll increase the number of food links. 

Or, you’re all just really hungry. 

I know I am.

Here’s my quarantine meal schedule: 

– Breakfast

– Interim Breakfast

– Post Breakfast Snack

– Lunch

– Post-lunch snack

– 2nd Lunch

– Chippy Salsa time (4pm sharp, meet in the living room)

– Dinner

– Pre-TV snackies

– TV snackies

– Bedtime snack (weed optional)

I hope you’re all staying safe and trying not to lose your mind during this ‘endless snow day’.

Reply to this email if you have any ideas for the newsletter or just wanna say hi.

Here’s this week’s ‘Awesome Things’:

People Dancing to Steely Dan will be your new favorite Twitter account.

You had me at free beer and dogs. Busch is giving 3 months’ worth of beer to people who adopt or foster a dog during coronavirus crisis.

Ina Garten says ‘It’s Always Cocktail Hour in a Crisis’.

Nine extremely long, extremely good movies to pass the time. 

A Twitter thread from Merriam-Webster of beautiful, obscure, and often quite useless words.

An insightful read about what everyone gets wrong about the toilet paper shortage. 

A portable green screen for your next video conference. 

Bored, Level 37: A Couple Made a Mini-Museum for Their Gerbils to Visit During Quarantine.

Support the restaurant industry: Chef My Kitchen lets you with a professional chef and get a personal recipe based on ingredients already in your kitchen.

Fanny packs are back? Pick yourself up a stylish Fanny DeVito

Free movie screening of the documentary ‘Rams’
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit has been streaming his films for free during the global COVID-19 crisis. Every film he’s made is worth watching, but his documentary ‘Rams’ is really special.

The film documents the incredible career of 87-year-old German industrial designer Dieter Rams. Rams is best known for his groundbreaking design for German consumer products manufacturer Braun

If you look around, much of his clean, minimalist design aesthetic is being felt even today. (Go open the calculator on your iPhone – that’s based on the Braun et66 Calculator.)

‘Rams’ documentary – Free until April 14

Check out some of Rams’ early work here 
Dieter Rams – 10 Principles for Good Design

 

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