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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "Carry that does a second job"
date: 2026-07-16 date: 2026-07-16
tags: [daily-finds, edc, everyday-carry] tags: [daily-finds, edc, everyday-carry]
description: "Everyday-carry objects with a hidden second function — a screwdriver full of swappable bits, a stand that's also a protractor, a knife that changes color, a mat that folds into a notebook." description: "Everyday-carry objects with a hidden second function — a screwdriver full of swappable bits, a stand that's also a protractor, a knife that changes color, a mat that folds into a notebook."
blurb: "Four pocket things that quietly turn out to be two." blurb: "Four pocket things, each secretly doing two jobs."
items: items:
- ant-design-apex-pocket-screwdriver - ant-design-apex-pocket-screwdriver
- aulumu-g05-phone-stand - aulumu-g05-phone-stand
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "Tools for one particular craft"
date: 2026-07-16 date: 2026-07-16
tags: [daily-finds, tools, niche] tags: [daily-finds, tools, niche]
description: "Narrow tools each built for a single pursuit — a native Typst typesetter, a wordplay workbench, a cheat-proof algebra app, and a CLI that pulls guitar tabs out of YouTube." description: "Narrow tools each built for a single pursuit — a native Typst typesetter, a wordplay workbench, a cheat-proof algebra app, and a CLI that pulls guitar tabs out of YouTube."
blurb: "Four narrow tools, each made for one specific thing you might be into." blurb: "Four tools, each built for exactly one job."
items: items:
- edist - edist
- spellsurf-word-tool - spellsurf-word-tool
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ tags: [accessible-travel, farm-stay, mexico]
description: "An apple orchard farm stay in Puebla's Sierra Norte built for wheelchair users from the ground up — ramps to the orchard, the horses, and beyond." description: "An apple orchard farm stay in Puebla's Sierra Norte built for wheelchair users from the ground up — ramps to the orchard, the horses, and beyond."
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At this apple orchard in Puebla's misty Sierra Norte, accessibility isn't an afterthought — a retrofitted school bus called the Berry Bus carries wheelchair users into the orchard on a wide ramp, and a second ramp extends straight onto a horse's back so wheelchair users can ride too. Guests pick blueberries from a flat grassy patch reserved for wheelchairs and sleep in accessible rooms at the on-site Frutos del Bosque hotel. Owner Federico Núñez Perea's daughter Stephanie, who uses a wheelchair, runs it all as the farm's Inclusion Director. At this apple orchard in Puebla's misty Sierra Norte, accessibility isn't an afterthought — a retrofitted school bus called the Berry Bus carries wheelchair users into the orchard on a wide ramp, and a second ramp extends straight onto a horse's back so they can ride too. Guests pick blueberries from a flat grassy patch reserved for wheelchairs and sleep in accessible rooms at the on-site Frutos del Bosque hotel. Owner Federico Núñez Perea's daughter Stephanie, who uses a wheelchair, runs it all as the farm's Inclusion Director.
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ tags: [museum, germany, history]
description: "A modest 19th-century house in Heidelberg where a saddler's son was born and grew up to become the Weimar Republic's first democratically elected president — free admission, guided tours available." description: "A modest 19th-century house in Heidelberg where a saddler's son was born and grew up to become the Weimar Republic's first democratically elected president — free admission, guided tours available."
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This modest 19th-century house in Heidelberg's old town is where Friedrich Ebert was born in 1871, the son of a saddler who would become the Weimar Republic's first democratically elected president. Original rooms, personal objects, and photographs trace how a working-class upbringing led to shaping modern German democracy, alongside a modern exhibition on the era's turbulence. Admission is free, with guided tours and audio guides available. This modest 19th-century house in Heidelberg's old town is where Friedrich Ebert was born in 1871, the son of a saddler who would become the Weimar Republic's first democratically elected president. Original rooms, personal objects, and photographs trace how a working-class upbringing shaped modern German democracy, alongside an exhibition on the era's turbulence. Admission is free, with guided tours and audio guides available.
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ tags: [ebooks, text-to-speech, offline]
description: "An iOS EPUB reader with on-device neural text-to-speech and a free built-in library of public-domain classics — everything narrated locally, no cloud round-trip required." description: "An iOS EPUB reader with on-device neural text-to-speech and a free built-in library of public-domain classics — everything narrated locally, no cloud round-trip required."
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Heard reads your EPUBs aloud using on-device neural narration, so nothing gets streamed to a server and the voice keeps going without a connection. It ships with a free library of public-domain classics — Dickens, Twain, Homer — ready to open and listen to immediately, alongside support for your own files. The narration engine runs locally on the phone, not in the cloud. Heard reads your EPUBs aloud using on-device neural narration, so nothing gets streamed to a server and the voice keeps going without a connection. It ships with a free library of public-domain classics — Dickens, Twain, Homer — ready to open and listen to immediately, alongside support for your own files.
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ description: "Curator John French's earnest online (and real, in East Lansing) m
promotedTo: moist-towelette-online-museum promotedTo: moist-towelette-online-museum
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John French has spent decades collecting moist towelettes — from Lufthansa, KFC, British Airways, and a set of Star Trek tie-ins captioned "Live long and prosper!" — and cataloguing them with the earnestness of a real institution, because it is one: the museum has a physical home in Room 100 of the Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University, open Tuesday through Friday. The site still lists a DIY towelette recipe (witch hazel, glycerine, paper towels) for anyone who runs out. John French has spent decades collecting moist towelettes — from Lufthansa, KFC, British Airways, and a set of Star Trek tie-ins captioned "Live long and prosper!" — and cataloguing them with the earnestness of a real institution. It is one: the museum has a physical home in Room 100 of the Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University, open Tuesday through Friday. The site still lists a DIY towelette recipe (witch hazel, glycerine, paper towels) for anyone who runs out.
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ tags: [literature, trivia, browser-game]
description: "A browser guessing game built entirely from famous first sentences — from 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit' to Kafka's 'Someone must have slandered Josef K.' — name the book from one line." description: "A browser guessing game built entirely from famous first sentences — from 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit' to Kafka's 'Someone must have slandered Josef K.' — name the book from one line."
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Verba Prima strips a famous novel down to a single sentence — its opening line — and asks you to name the book. The lines range from instantly recognizable ("In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit") to properly obscure, testing how much a great first sentence actually tells you before the rest of the book shows up. Round by round, it's a reminder of how much work a great opening line does. Verba Prima strips a famous novel down to a single sentence — its opening line — and asks you to name the book. The lines range from instantly recognizable ("In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit") to properly obscure, testing how much a great first sentence actually tells you before the rest of the book shows up.
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ import hero from './hero.jpg';
<Image src={hero} alt="A cream-colored Clasica camper trailer parked in a wildflower meadow with Mount Hood visible in the background, showing its pop-top roof, coach stripe, and tongue box." /> <Image src={hero} alt="A cream-colored Clasica camper trailer parked in a wildflower meadow with Mount Hood visible in the background, showing its pop-top roof, coach stripe, and tongue box." />
*The Clasica in an Oregon meadow — pop-top roof, coach stripe, and tongue box, the three-quarter view that shows most of what the shell is doing.* *The Clasica in an Oregon meadow — pop-top roof, coach stripe, and tongue box, all visible in this three-quarter view.*
> A 1,200-pound fiberglass camper built in Oregon, echoing 1970s European caravan design and shipped with a 1,505-watt-hour power station included — made to order, at $28,500, with a three-to-four-month wait. > A 1,200-pound fiberglass camper built in Oregon, echoing 1970s European caravan design and shipped with a 1,505-watt-hour power station included — made to order, at $28,500, with a three-to-four-month wait.
Clasica is a two-person outfit in Eugene, Oregon, building a 12-foot fiberglass camper that weighs 1,200 pounds dry — light enough that most Subarus and other SUVs and crossovers tow it without a truck. The shell's rounded profile, coach stripe, and pop-top roof trace back to what the company calls a 1970s European design language, an era when lightweight fiberglass caravans were built to move easily, last a long time, and feel calm on the road. It sleeps up to three adults across a double and a single berth. Clasica is a two-person outfit in Eugene, Oregon, building a 12-foot fiberglass camper that weighs 1,200 pounds dry — light enough for most SUVs and crossovers, Subarus included, to tow without a truck. The shell's rounded profile, coach stripe, and pop-top roof trace back to what the company calls a 1970s European design language, an era when lightweight fiberglass caravans were built to move easily, last a long time, and feel calm on the road. It sleeps up to three adults across a double and a single berth.
That heritage shape isn't just styling. Production-scale fiberglass caravan building of this kind no longer exists in the U.S. at any scale, so after years spent remodeling older campers themselves, the founders partnered with a European factory with decades of experience in the tradition — the site doesn't name the factory or its country, so the "molded from a 1970s Polish one-piece" claim floating around isn't something Clasica's own site confirms. The chassis is more specific: a galvanized steel frame, German torsion-arm suspension, and sealed bearings, refined with Oregon State University's engineering department during prototyping. That heritage shape isn't just styling. Production-scale fiberglass caravan building of this kind no longer exists in the U.S., so after years spent remodeling older campers themselves, the founders partnered with a European factory with decades of experience in the tradition — the site doesn't name the factory or its country, so the "molded from a 1970s Polish one-piece" claim floating around isn't something Clasica's own site confirms. The chassis is more specific: a galvanized steel frame, German torsion-arm suspension, and sealed bearings, refined with Oregon State University's engineering department during prototyping.
Power comes from a Goal Zero Yeti 1500 6G station included with every unit — 1,505 watt-hours of LiFePO4 storage rated for 4,000 charge cycles, charged through a front battery box wired for both solar and 120-volt shore power. That's enough to run lights, outlets, and a compressor fridge for a weekend without hookups, which is the pitch: a fiberglass shell over your head and little else to manage. Power comes from a Goal Zero Yeti 1500 6G station included with every unit — 1,505 watt-hours of LiFePO4 storage rated for 4,000 charge cycles, charged through a front battery box wired for both solar and 120-volt shore power. That's enough to run lights, outlets, and a compressor fridge for a weekend without hookups, which is the pitch: a fiberglass shell over your head and little else to manage.