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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "Carry that does a second job"
 date: 2026-07-16
 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."
-blurb: "Four pocket things that quietly turn out to be two."
+blurb: "Four pocket things, each secretly doing two jobs."
 items:
  - ant-design-apex-pocket-screwdriver
  - aulumu-g05-phone-stand
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "Tools for one particular craft"
 date: 2026-07-16
 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."
-blurb: "Four narrow tools, each made for one specific thing you might be into."
+blurb: "Four tools, each built for exactly one job."
 items:
  - edist
  - 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."
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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."
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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."
 ---

-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
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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."
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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." />

-*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.

-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.