Fun Friday Resources
/I missed last Friday’s Fun Friday Resources mostly because we arrived home from Boston with covid and I kind of didn’t have the energy. Apologies — but I’m back. (Hold that thought.)*
First up is a link that I cannot actually give you any advice on because while I am a computer power user in my own way, I am not a computer geek and haven’t been for decades. But if you’re a computer geek, go check out DiscMaster, a complete throwback to the days of the World Wide Web. It may have just what you’re looking for to escape the Current Reality.
In the same retro vein, and for a really good laugh, go check out the MS Clipart collection. I may never use google image search again. Note that the files are .svg files and some programs might balk at importing/using them. If you don’t have a graphics program to convert them, try any of the many converters online.
Here’s a strangely appealing and useful site: StoryTerra. As the About page says, “This project brings together over 120,000 titles — including books, films, TV shows, and games, annotated with their narrative time periods and real-world locations or the closest location to their fictional setting. You can explore the world by clicking on cities, regions, or countries, and use a time slider that lets you browse centuries, decades, or individual years.”
If you need a sweet little box to enclose the very special gift you bought for someone, as I did recently, head over to Curbly.com and rummage around. Note: You will probably have to download the template and then use it to enlarge the pattern onto a piece of paper large enough to make your box.
Okay, I’m including this link to Anxietyaidtools.com because I think we can all agree that it would be dead useful, as the Hogwarts kids used to say, but such is the wackiness of our timeline that at the moment it doesn’t seem to be working. Keep trying. In the meantime, I find dark ambient music to be soothing.
*I’m back, but tomorrow afternoon we fly to Colorado to pursue someone’s dream to visit as many of the national parks as she they can, right as the federal government shuts down, so pray for me. I may or may not be posting until we get back week after next.
