Archived Post 2020-12-08
Redditās 2020 Year in Review
Tags: 2020 Created time: December 8, 2020 10:30 AM
Reddit exploded during the pandemic and protests, with daily active users up 44% and posts/upvotes up over 50% https://redditblog.com/2020/12/08/reddits-2020-year-in-review/
ViaĀ [twitter.com/waxy
redditinc.com, Redditās 2020 Year in Review
Posted on December 8, 2020
Archived Post 2020-12-07
More Island Planning
Tags: 2020 Created time: December 7, 2020 10:27 AM
Posted on December 7, 2020
Archived Post 2020-12-03
Replay 2020
Tags: 2020 Created time: December 3, 2020 10:26 AM
āReplay 2020 by Apple Music for Rachel on Apple Music
(I switched from Spotify to Apple Music earlier this year, but damn it I still wanna play the wrap up game.)
Posted on December 3, 2020
SpaceHey ā a space for friends.
SpaceHey: MySpace rebooted by an 18-year-old German student, who was five years old at its peak popularity
Archived Post 2020-11-30
I have mixed feelings about this
Tags: 2020 Created time: November 30, 2020 10:26 AM
SpaceHey: MySpace rebooted by an 18-year-old German student, who was five years old at its peak popularity
Posted on November 30, 2020
Archived Post 2020-10-28
Moonbeard - Unfinished Business
Tags: 2020 Created time: October 28, 2020 10:26 AM
via Moonbeard
Posted on October 28, 2020
Selfie to celebrate the first time Iāve had to put on makeup and a proper shirt since March. I had a meeting at work and it was the first time I was forced to use my video.
Archived Post 2020-10-24
ClipDrop
Tags: 2020 Created time: October 24, 2020 10:26 AM
ClipDrop: Cyril Diagne turned his AR cut & paste tech demo into a product
Posted on October 24, 2020
Archived Post 2020-09-17
Browse Through 72 Years of Ikea Catalogs
Tags: 2020 Created time: September 17, 2020 10:23 AM
Ikea has uploaded scans of all 72 years of their annual catalogs, from 1950 to 2021, to their online museum. (The companyās optimism that there will be a 2021 is heartening.) An entertaining time machine of Scandinavian design trends.
via kottke.org
Posted on September 17, 2020
Archived Post 2020-06-22
He Came From Japan
Tags: 2020 Created time: June 22, 2020 10:16 AM
Posted on June 22, 2020
Email Issues
So my maiden name is Barker. And thereās this other Rachel Barker, who either genuinely thinks she has my email address, or just uses it as her spamĀ email.
But over the years I have learned her entire address, most of her family memberās names, including motherās maiden name, and a metric tonne of other information about her, like where she works and banks. I am unwilling to get rid of this email (which is a gmail address that I have owned literally since the first month gmail was a thing), but I basically only log in to delete her emails at this point.
Last month I got a notification that she was trying to log in to outlook.com, with an email address I own (and have since about 2006) but donāt ever use. So I tried to log in myself, but the account was locked. I talked to Microsoft account services, and they verified me as the account owner, but I had to wait 30 days for the account to unlock.
So I did. And today when the 30 days were up, I logged in, changed the password and set up two factor authentication. When I got in I saw that she has ALSO been using the outlook email as her own for years. She never replies, obviously, since she couldnāt actually access the email. But people have been emailing her at that address.
Is she terrible at email? Does she just hate everyone in her life and gives them aāfakeā email? It is unclear.
But if youāre ever googling yourself, Rachel Barker who lives in Southborough, Kent, UK: Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you donāt own any emails using rachel.barker. You donāt own it on any service, not outlook, not gmail. Please stop giving it out, Iām uncomfortable knowing this much about you.
Archived Post 2020-06-19
trying a Beef Fizz
Tags: 2020 Created time: June 19, 2020 10:15 AM
Click the link for a video of me trying the classic mocktail, theāBeef Fizzā. Recipe from this tweet.
My husband tried it too and said itāWould be better with less beefā.
Posted on June 19, 2020
Archived Post 2020-06-18
Listening to Black Voices
Tags: 2020 Created time: June 18, 2020 10:15 AM
Listening to Black Voices Amid Murder, Violence, Protest, and Pandemic via https://kottke.org/
Posted on June 18, 2020
Archived Post 2020-06-09
Small gifts - Big joy
Tags: 2020 Created time: June 9, 2020 10:15 AM
Posted on June 9, 2020
Archived Post 2020-04-27
How good can chicken be
Tags: 2020 Created time: April 27, 2020 9:47 AM
This was a good chicken
Posted on April 27, 2020
Archived Post 2020-04-24
Almost at the Goal
Tags: 2020 Created time: April 24, 2020 9:47 AM
My 10K is now May 1st. Since itās a virtual run and I can run any day in May I figured Iād get it over with quickly.
Last week I did 10K (by my Apple Watch) in 63 mins, and I am hoping to get it to an hour by Friday. Or get the treadmill sensor working again and then forget about my time. ĀÆ*(ć)*/ĀÆ
Very little is happening other than running and working from home. Iām hardly even reading the internet ācause of Animal Crossing.
Iāll post my runtime here on May 1st, so watch this space!
Note from 2022 Rachel, I did run this 10K and finished it, but my time was slightly over an hour so I was disappointed. I think it was 1:20 actually, I’d have to check again on RaceRoster. I’m now training to run a marathon so maybe I’ll start blogging about my running again!
Posted on April 24, 2020