Birch Bark Issue 28
Art
Videos
Stuntmen React To Bad & Great Hollywood Sword Fights
Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History
what's wrong with taking the back streets?
How One Gameplay Decision Changed Diablo Forever
Music
Did you know you can subscribe to these music picks on Apple Music? Add the playlist here and get new songs every Thursday before this email even goes out :)
Purple Noon by Washed Out
This week's musical theme is chilling out, and Washed Out's brand new record is sure to let you do that. Washed Out has been quietly making great tunes since their 2011 full length debut, and this is the one that's clicked with me the most. Loving this right now, especially for night driving.
Awake by Tycho
I can't get enough of this album, and you should really drop everything and listen to it now. Tycho is a visual artist who wanted to create music that went along with his art, and he's proven to be exceptionally talented at both, which just seems unfair.
Links
Street View for 1940s New York City
Less an article and more of an interactive tour of New York City almost a century ago. This is uniquely cool, so please check it out!
The New York theme continues with a look at the stories of random people in NYC.
Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You
God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting to good use: my novels, my music, my game, and so on. But you get me riled enough, and I have to blog.
Both the UK and (today) the USA have given official statistics on how ecommerce and retail have changed during lockdown. The headline numbers are pretty dramatic. The UK went from 20% ecommerce penetration to over 30% in two months, and the USA from 17% to 22%.
Using Roam Research as a Customer Relationship Manager
As it turns out, Roam Research works for many different purposes. I’ve been using Roam Research for Bible study and professionally as a client relationship manager.
I had COVID-19, and these are the things nobody tells you
The novel coronavirus is not a statistic. It’s not an agenda. It’s not a debate. COVID-19 is real enough to rise up and beat me senseless. We need to stop giving it license to do the same to others.