{"id":11462,"date":"2022-10-13T08:21:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=11462"},"modified":"2024-08-28T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T16:07:08","slug":"thursday-links-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2022\/10\/13\/thursday-links-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been focused on my book this week, so not a lot percolating in the ol\u2019 noggin\u2019 worthy of writing about. Thus, some links for your enjoyment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ironandair.com\/pelorus-experience-007-james-bond\/\">Become 007 With Pelorus\u2019 Bond-Worthy Travel Experience<\/a><br \/>\nI wonder if the girls will be upset when I tell them that their college accounts have been drained so that I can do this instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/cars\/article\/james-bond-actors-car-collections\">A breakdown of every James Bond actor\u2019s favourite car<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cFavourite.\u201d LOL. I guess it is from British GQ so it\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I love reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abdurraqib.com\/\">Hanif Abdurraqib<\/a> because his writing is filled with so many unexpected connections. Here he surprises me again, with an appreciation of Loretta Lynn following her death.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She sung the lonely songs better the older she got, which some people might consider sad but I consider necessary. Enough decades of life suggests that one might begin to take an inventory of her aches and regrets, the absences that have been planted through the years and have grown only wider as the clock winds down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/05\/opinion\/loretta-lynn-dead-remembrance.html?unlocked_article_code=MOE5kOZMNVqinEJmc8OshS5nD0gkZW7fdCm-_nxuvkCJbuVHCWq6Kua2OXxVOewP0WavFd8qlFARCtRP6aakte5ixlUl-XLK40ZmiGWbXaMeCkiiT1ASB8G3jqQjzWLB-JJJVsbvhcBqhmF_oUtkkvH7_nx0mGI-Ajw-vQA86Cb8dV0yrdW-rVeqp-CnT5CsmzDMwlSKuRpiwCVLH2PdDLnuq_uR_wD0ERUDCq-sePx3gLE8QucwtgFAhWIN1LC-VVXWQE6RWnUftyOqJzI2DRHJ5pjh_eFj4MZyxJ-9D-_mHtJ9DdyrkfMOJ-HYav3WlbyET2CzDwsohgXAtXYZ9vLdUImlCSY&amp;smid=share-url\">The Singer I Loved Knew the Truth About No-Good Men and the No-Good World<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/22-goals\">22 Goals<\/a><br \/>\nEven if you don\u2019t give a damn about soccer or the World Cup, Brian Phillips\u2019 22 Goals series is AMAZING. I haven\u2019t read all of them &#8211; yet &#8211; but the ones I have read are some of the best and most entertaining sports writing I\u2019ve read this year. I highly recommend the Diego Maradona, Dennis Bergcamp, and Marco Tardelli entries. I\u2019m guessing the others are all just as good and I will recommend them once I get through them.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rube_Goldberg_machine\">Rube Goldberg machine<\/a> videos are always fun to watch. I like this one because it is, in a way, mocking them while also celebrating them. I do subtract some points for some clear edits, but I guess since this is a bit of a parody we shouldn\u2019t worry about that too much.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@josephmachines\/video\/7127372760879336709\" data-video-id=\"7127372760879336709\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@josephmachines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@josephmachines?refer=embed\">@josephmachines<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This machine passes your wine across a table! Continuing on from my \u201cPass the Salt\u201d  and \u201cPass the Pepper\u201d  series. <a title=\"chainreaction\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/chainreaction?refer=embed\">#chainreaction<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Joseph\u2019s Machines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7127372831043242758?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Joseph\u2019s Machines<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@josephmachines\/video\/7127372760879336709\">This machine passes your wine across a table!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been focused on my book this week, so not a lot percolating in the ol\u2019 noggin\u2019 worthy of writing about. Thus, some links for your enjoyment. Become 007 With Pelorus\u2019 Bond-Worthy Travel Experience I wonder if the girls will be upset when I tell them that their college accounts have been drained so that I can do this instead. A breakdown of every James Bond actor\u2019s favourite car \u201cFavourite.\u201d LOL. I guess it is from British GQ so it\u2019s all good. I love reading Hanif Abdurraqib because his writing is filled with so many unexpected connections. Here he surprises me again, with an appreciation of Loretta Lynn following her death. She sung the lonely songs better the older she got, which some people might consider sad but I consider necessary. Enough decades of life suggests that one might begin to take an inventory of her aches and regrets, the absences that have been planted through the years and have grown only wider as the clock winds down. The Singer I Loved Knew the Truth About No-Good Men and the No-Good World 22 Goals Even if you don\u2019t give a damn about soccer or the World Cup, Brian Phillips\u2019 22 Goals series is AMAZING. I haven\u2019t read all of them &#8211; yet &#8211; but the ones I have read are some of the best and most entertaining sports writing I\u2019ve read this year. I highly recommend the Diego Maradona, Dennis Bergcamp, and Marco Tardelli entries. I\u2019m guessing the others are all just as good and I will recommend them once I get through them. Finally, Rube Goldberg machine videos are always fun to watch. I like this one because it is, in a way, mocking them while also celebrating them. I do subtract some points for some clear edits, but I guess since this is a bit of a parody we shouldn\u2019t worry about that too much. This machine passes your wine across a table!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-11462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11465,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions\/11465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}