I like the idea, but why is every suggestion about something to consume? I find that being at home is worse when all you do is mind numbing media consumption.. it would be awesome to include activities that can be done with common house hold items or your phone (photo challenge etc) to spark some creativity.
You might like the Shuffle My Life (available on Android/iOS). You can filter the type of activities you want it to suggest and there's a good variety.
Yeah it looks like it unfortunately. I haven't found a less cumbersome way to get around region locks, aside from creating a new Apple ID, but I'll keep searching.
One minor quibble..."Outbreak" is a terrible movie, bad enough that I'd say don't bother with it. Some good actors, but writing terrible enough that it doesn't help. "Contagion", on the other hand is very well researched, with better acting. It's also interesting how many of the sub-plots and terminology are happening in real life, right now.
I searched "criticism movie outbreak' but found nothing.
Would you feel like sharing more about why you dislike it? assuming you have some key/potent and useful examples from scenes.
Are you really suggesting there's no criticism of the film on the internet? The film has a 59% on Rotten Tomatoes with plenty of criticism available there.
Personally, I watched it for the first time about a week ago, and was hoping for a movie that was primarily about a virus outbreak. Which it was, for the first hour or so. After that it became a generic (and comically over-dramatic) 90s action movie about the military being bad or something. I wouldn't say it's unwatchable, and it's definitely helped by its all-star cast, but I would agree that if you want to watch a movie about a virus outbreak, you're better off watching Contagion.
Perhaps my movie research skills are not too good. When looking for a movie I happily take on or look past the content built to appeal to a wide audience and enjoy the parts of it I find enjoyable. This is my explanation for thinking Outbreak is a great move, and perhaps a little fun and silly. Even ridiculous. But 'bad'?
Are we saying 'want to watch a movie about a virus outbreak'means needing near documentary accuracy with some components? I look at film as a total free for all artistic/author's thing. Cristicising with that in mind seems a bit.. I'm not even sure what to say. I would say yes lazy writing where gaping hard to follow plots or oddball scenes can be difficult but even those are sort of fun if you like experimenting with alternate mindsets. 'The Room' comes to mind. Not 'Room'.
To be clear I don't know anything about how to watch movies properly... so maybe I'm messing up.
No one is saying you don't know how to watch movies! I could totally see how it would be possible to enjoy Outbreak as a fun action movie. Certainly there are plenty of movies I enjoy where the critical consensus is "meh".
I was just relaying my own personal experience with the film — it wasn't really what I expected, and as much as I love the silliness of 90s movies, it just fell a bit flat for me.
"I want to know just one thing. Can you read electron micrographs as well as you can run?"
"Captain Salt, if you fail to
observe strict decontamination
protocol, three things can happen.
First, you can be court-martialed.
Second, you can die from this
horrible disease. Third, and
worst of all, you can incur my
displeasure"
Off topic for the movie review, but maybe more broadly on topic for the thread:
"nobody talks like this"
This is a game introduced to me by a 4 year old. You take turns saying "nobody talks like this" in the most ridiculous and creative voices you can conjure up. I guess the winner is the one that doesn't soil themselves, it is seriously funny hearing what kids will come up with!
I watched contagion with a couple of friends right before shelter in place went into effect last month. We were all blown away by how accurate it was. One last person came over late that said maybe try outbreak. We turned it off 15 minutes in to watch contagion again.
That's a much better worded version of what I was trying to say. The writing in Outbreak is lazy, which is a shame, because I hear the book it is based on is pretty good.
As you mention, Contagion is REALLY well done. Google a bit, and you'll find the people behind that. There's a reason it rings true with current events.
This is a great way to spend time for me and explore interesting stuff.
I have a suggestion of having a link to previous days archives so i can re-visit and re-explore at a later date.
Thanks!
While the concept is timely, I remember when much of my browsing used to consist of visiting blogs like this. (It still does, but it used to too.)
Even during the heyday of LiveJournal or whatever, I loved having bookmarks where I could look in on whatever fun/interesting/amusing links people had shared recently. While there are some still kicking, it seems like most of that content has either gone to aggregators or meta-forums like reddit/HN and to the trickle-feeds of Facebook and its spawn.
There's something to be said for a list or RSS feed of these kinds of sites and I think it's a shame they're not as prominent as they once were. I'm glad when anyone decides to put up a new one.
A bit of a shameless plug, but sometime ago I built an aggregator for the videos posted on HN, which can be quite a time killer - https://hackerpixels.com/. It's just for fun, ignore the newsletter popup, haven't found the time to remove it.
Only issue I'm having is the alignment (Firefox 75 on Linux). Which looking at the source they're using the align attribute on the body which only works on divs in firefox.
If it's helpful for the author I was able to do a quick fix for myself with Stylus by adding:
body {
text-align: center;
}
Another option would be warping everything that needs to be centered in a div and putting the align attribute on that.
Site works for me in the latest mainstream desktop/Win10 version (other than the Spotify stuff that only plays a snippet since I don't have an account).
I just want to throw a +1 on "today's Netflix binge" which is Ozark. What a fantastic show. Has a great Breaking Bad feel to it; and if you liked Arrested Development, Jason Bateman is basically playing the same character… a family-first business guy who did break bad :)
I sometimes like to think of Ozark as the darker prequel to Arrested Development. Michael finally got out of the cartel, but not without losing his wife and oldest daughter, and went in to witness protection running the family business. It's Arrested ... Development.
This is pretty great.
That 'TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time' video is one of the most incredible, thought provoking and depressing things I have seen.
When sleep is a good way to boost the defences against infections [0], motivating people to stay up until midnight might not be the best idea. Perhaps change the update time to an earlier hour.
i guess there's always someone on the other side of the globe. So a reasonable time for where the majority of your audience is is the best. Unless you wanna go all out and make it timezones dependent.
FYI This is going to trigger some people as they go nuts if they see someone on the street. I guess it's good that might trigger some discussions on the overzealous people.
I dislike this comment because it's such a 'well DUH' thing. Obviously OP isn't suggesting people break the law or quarantine, he's suggesting they go for a run if they have access. Treadmills are not outlawed anywhere to my understanding. Context folks, people might also be triggered if they are physically unable to run, but OP isn't it to them, he's suggesting an excellent way to stay sane and physically fit if you have the ability.
I don't know why these two comments bothered me so much, I guess I generally expect better discussion from the community.
ON TOPIC, Cool site, I got a chuckle out of the link, information was presented nicely, I felt like there was enough content without overwhelming me while still having enough to keep me entertained.
As someone who is not able to run, the comment made me feel sad for a few seconds, but I am used to that feeling since I feel it every time I see someone jogging down the street. I am lucky that I can still ride my bike for that cardio fix. It's been a process to try to be happy about the things I can do instead of focusing on the things I can't.
Congratulations on your healthy strategy for dealing with this, and, as a fellow cardio addict, I am deeply sorry for your loss of this vital activity.
Where is it illegal to go out for exercise? Every stay-at-home order I've seen, at least in the democracies, carves out an exception for that. (On the other hand, I've hardly made a survey of them, so this is an honest question.)
El Salvador, it is not exactly illegal, you get thrown into a quarantine center for 30 days if you're not outside for anything but essential needs or your job (if you are an essential worker), I do think it's for the best for now, most people would simply not understand how bad it could get otherwise, our country does not have the resources to handle this disease if it gets out of hand, it is a slippery slope though
Poland. It was the most criticised part of initial restrictions, fortunately it is being relaxed on Monday (going out for recreation is allowed, opened parks and forests, however masks mandatory when going outside).
But it definitely is legal in lots of other places, here in Norway for instance. And going out to exercise once a day is not merely legal but encouraged even in the UK.
