Second the Rice Museum recommendation! If I ever make it big I'm going to legally change my last name to 'Mineral' and create the Mineral Museum of Rice on the other side of the freeway showcasing everything from basmati to risotto.

This makes me want to find an actual rice museum that isn't the IRRI.

I've been enjoying Tiled Words! I find myself playing in a weird way, by totally ignoring the clues. I look at the title and try to puzzle out all the answers myself. I don't know if I'm alone in that, but it could be a neat mode to have a setting to hide the clues.

Thanks! I’ve heard that from a few people! Adding that as an official mode is on my road map but there are a few big features ahead of it right now

It's just as random as any other number!

I made a simple ON AIR sign with LEDs inside that I change to reflect what I was doing. Red means I am in a meeting or totally focused, blue means I'm working, but someone can interrupt me if needed. Green means I'm not working, come on in!

The only issue with my setup- I work from home. My wife does not. No one is there to care if they can come in or not. It was building something fun to solve a problem I never had.

Would do again.

I enjoy the way Baldur's Gate 3 implements this- choices tend to align more along character axes than good/evil. There are indications for many small dialogue choices that say "Karlach approves" or "Astarion disapproves" to give you a sense of each character's values and personality, and they each have their own motivations. Some are more traditionally good or evil, but they all have reasons for doing what they do.

Choices occasionally feel fairly binary good/evil, but more often all choices have their pros & cons, and it's more about story and narrative in making my decisions.

I have this experience in airports- I'm always amazed how much I can get done in 45 minutes of waiting at the gate when there's little to distract me.

I feel the same! One bit of advice has helped me take better advantage of those small chunks of time- "Park facing downhill." I don't remember where I first heard it, but the idea is to stop somewhere naturally conducive to resuming work. Start making the list, and stop at a point where it's really easy to write down the next few items. Or leave the really easy bit of code for next time.

I'm not good at it, because I prefer to cross things off when I finish them, but when I can pull it off it saves some of that time getting oriented to what I'm working on.

Several years ago my niece dressed up as Jane Goodall for Halloween. Through a string of random connections, someone sent Jane a picture of her. She wrote my niece an incredibly nice note complimenting the costume and all its details.

For all the good Jane Goodall has done in the world, I am forever grateful that she cared enough to give a young girl a gift she can treasure forever.

I've always wanted to make a messaging app that would vibrate in Morse code when you get a message. I love the idea of feeling a message in my pocket and 'reading' it without looking, but I'm also not great at deciphering it, so it wouldn't get much use.

Many years ago when I had an iphone I would set text vibrations to be the morse code of the first letter of someone's name so I knew who messaged me without looking. That's the only feature I still miss to this day with my android.

Is this feature still available?

Yes

That would be fun. I think a lot of non-tech people didn't realise that the old Nokia default text message notification was the morse for S.M.S. (short message service). That was a worryingly long time ago though.

Oh I really like this idea! If you do make this please post it here.

This would be a great learning tool for those of us who are trying to learn it also.

I have a feeling this app would greatly increase the number of phantom vibrations I experience.

I've been wanting to write a keyboard app that would allow me to write a message from my pocket :D

I love that idea

This sounds fascinating! I'm a big fan of weird fiction. If your stories are published or shared anywhere when complete I'd love to check them out.

Thank you so much! I'll put you on a list :)

I'm trying things a little differently right now, by plotting/writing, then revising in between the next set. Think spaced repetition for writing. Every story needs some drawer time before it's revised and edited. I anticipate a small anthology of sorts being ready by the end of the year.