Scuba Dive Update and Some Items to Purchase

Not a life update here but rather some clean-up of shopping bookmarks on my Chrome tabs that I wish to preserve but not necessarily keep around since they clutter up the place. To be not completely dull and as a life update, I have been trying to get my scuba diving open water certificate this week. I went scuba diving at Mammoth Lake in Lake Jackson today and that was incredibly fun. This has been a full week of fun and tiring times with diving at the Gigglin' Marlin swimming pool and this weekend at the lake.

These are the bookmarks that I wish to save:

To buy:

James Webb Space Telescope posters

Typewriter keyboard

Gadget to press things

Dice of all types

Cyberpunk goth visor

Encyclopedia of demons

Sondors bike

To one day experience:

Sleeping pods

And of course this site:

https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/

Articles for later reading

Once again having a lot of articles I want to cleanup in terms of the bookmarks on the Chrome tab. To not be completely dull, I throw in here a  few pictures that I like here at the forefront including one of drawing of abstract space, a screenshot of Rika Mari, weird psychedelic staircase art, octopus and cats, the moon with a quote I made up (a hundred stars is not worth one moon), a portrait of Emma Kunz and an ellipse I drew in Python several years ago with edge detection algorithm.

If the attention is still there (namely talking to myself here), here's the bookmarks which I find interesting but do not want to clutter up space with.

Spaceflight

https://www.thespaceshow.com/

https://www.spacedaily.com/

https://www.spacemart.com/

https://spaceflightnow.com/

https://dailygalaxy.com/

https://nasawatch.com/

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

https://zapatatalksnasa.com/

http://space.alglobus.net/#writing

https://www.reallyrocketscience.com/ has not been updated since 2018.09.19 but perhaps some of its contents are still useful.

Science Fiction

CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination article here describes an unique scifi convention.

Centauri Dreams article on century of the starship written on 2012.03.23

Science

https://www.asianscientist.com/

Culture

Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear can be bought for $39.95 from this publisher's site.

Speaking of China blog (foreign wife describing China)

Artists

Krystine Art (print shop) which has Life is Strange and characters from other video games

Helen Friel who self-describes as a paper engineer

Toys from Trash which has origami projects for all ages.

Dung Beetle Books is a collection of weird artful books you can buy.

Bev Doolittle (artist) (Wikipedia)

Writing

Describing characters of color in writing

Programming

Why VIM is more than just an editor

Wenda Xu is some AI and LLM researcher that I found a while back. Interesting papers here.

Mathematics

Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem (Wikipedia)

The Weird

Spotting UFOs (Space.com article on how to do it yourself)

Blogs of miscellaneous types

Many of these may not have been updated in a while. Still, I have kept them as bookmarks for a while so they must have some value for reading.

Technology Bytes was a running podcast in Houston that terminated on 2017.02.15

https://just---breathe.tumblr.com/ (last updated 2018.02.13)

https://pebbleinthestillwaters.blogspot.com/ (last updated 2024.03.23)

Photographers

Dallas-based Indian-American photographer who I used to know as the brother of a friend

Thomas Le Ngo photographer who I met once a long time ago in Portland, OR when I attended a GNSS conference there for a competition.

Thomas Zimmer Photography takes amazing astrophotography and terrestrial ones too.

Things I know almost nothing about

Tezos (Wikipedia)

Coglode is a company that helps other companies save money by identifying behavioral and psychological impacts on businesses.