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Hi. My name is Gary Bacon. Since 2008, this is my randomly updated tumblr for the interwebs that tickle my fancy. I make a bit of Youtube related to tech, and always have my nose in a good book. You can also find me on Mastodon.

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Zoom is a private company headquartered in San Jose, CA.

If you work with K-12 in education, this is a form to fill out for a fee zoom account. 

Original source: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/22/how-to-use-zoom-for-online-learning/

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Mr. Rogers talks about drawing

These images are grabbed from episode 1481:

In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday talks to Miss Paulificate about an idea he has for a “Draw the Neighborhood Contest.”… Harriett Elizabeth Cow is not very excited about the contest because she says that everyone’s talents are different and art contests are very difficult to judge.

You can watch it on PBS.org or on Netflix.

(Thanks to my friend Frank Chimero for this.)

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Reminder to myself.

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Encourage play.

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I would so buy one of these. Love the idea. The camera UI he talks about too is seriously amazing.

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This is seriously legit.

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A major review of published research suggests that chronic stress and anxiety can damage areas of the brain involved in emotional responses, thinking and memory, leading to depression and even Alzheimer’s disease.

“Pathological anxiety and chronic stress are associated with structural degeneration and impaired functioning of the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex, which may account for the increased risk of developing neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression and dementia.”

However, scientists claim when feelings of stress and anxiety become long-term, chronic conditions due to work or personal problems, they can begin to “wreak havoc” on immune, metabolic and cardiovascular systems and cause damage to the brain.

Treatment with antidepressant drugs and physical activity have been found to boost regeneration.

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Amazon Tech Books on Sale

Today Amazon has 90% off books for Students. However, looks like there are a few good tech books too.

Items of note:

AP Stylebook 2015 ( $1.99 )

Building Microservices ( $5.00 )

UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want ( $5.99 )

CSS Secrets ( $6.49 )

Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond ( $7.49 )

Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products ( $5.99 )

I already own CSS Secrets. I decided to pick up a copy of UX Strategy and Design Sprint. Look forward to reading them.

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“Lend us a book we can read up alone” It’s likely that most people reading this will have already seen either the original story on openbookstoronto.com last week, or a version of it referring back to that original list of “DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 BOOKS”. There have also been numerous suggestions of a Bowie Book Club to tackle each of the 100 volumes. However, there was a problem with that particular openbookstoronto.com feature in that only 75% of the books were actually listed! For anybody planning on completing this epic voyage of discovery, we’ve listed every single one of the 100 books here (in no particular order) for your reference. You may have also noticed the two chaps in the middle of our montage. Well, it’s none other than David Bowie sporting a Clockwork Orange T-shirt (the book by Anthony Burgess is in the list) with his old chum, George Underwood. George kindly supplied the previously unpublished photograph, which according to him was taken aboard Amtrak somewhere between New Orleans and Chicago on the first US tour in 1972. And so, on to that COMPLETE list of David Bowie’s Top 100 (count 'em) Books. Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse Room At The Top by John Braine On Having No Head by Douglass Harding Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess City Of Night by John Rechy The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Iliad by Homer As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood ...

This is fantastic. David Bowie loved to read. These are his top 100 books.

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It’s okay to have multiple passions. They overlap.

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Great talk by Julie

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Love that the Tumblr logo looks like the Seinfeld logo too!

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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, too, shall pass away.” How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! “And this, too, shall pass away.”

Abraham Lincoln, 1859 (via austinkleon)

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pixelbud turned 7 today!

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Love Equality Bacon by Baconpress

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HEY GIRL.

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This scares me.

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Pretty much the way to approach it.