Generated Faces
Updated 03-Aug-2025 https://generated.photos/faces/beautified/young-adult/asian-race/black-hair/long/joy/brown-eyes https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/03/generate-realistic-human-face-using-gan.html https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan3
Diagrams.net (was Draw.io)
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Diagrams.net -- previously draw.io -- is a neat web/web 2.0 diagram editor. It supports Google Drive and also VSCode integration. Currently I usually just use Inkscape and draw whatever I need by hand. It is usually faster, and can embed as an SVG or simply output a PNG file. However, if one does ... Read more
10 Different Kinds of Video Games
Updated 03-Aug-2025 https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/video-game-genres
Spacewar!
Updated 03-Aug-2025 About Spacewar! Play Spacewar! online
Doom Video Game
Updated 03-Aug-2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(franchise) Play Doom II at Archive.org
The Oregon Trail
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Play The Oregon Trail (1990) Online at Archive.org I Designed The Oregon Trail, You Have Died of Dysentery - The lead designer of The Oregon Trail explains his team's process for creating the most successful educational computer game of all time.
Scratch Backpack
Updated 03-Aug-2025 How to use the Scratch Backpack
Scratch Wiki
Updated 03-Aug-2025 There is a fantastic Scratch wiki that has excellent information.
What is Notion?
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Wikipedia says: > Notion is a notetaking software and project management software that is used for note-taking, task management, project management, knowledge management, and personal knowledge management. The app uses databases and markdown pages for use in personal and collaboration work. This is a bit unwieldy, but so is Notion, which does have ... Read more
Virtual Reality and Children
Updated 03-Aug-2025 It turns out that there are many legitimate concerns when it comes to virtual reality and children, the ones that are different than the concerns with video games (addiction, etc.), are around how the eyes focus (or not) in virtual reality as opposed to reality. Currently, one could say that all virtual reality ... Read more
Asus Flip C214MA
Updated 03-Aug-2025 The Asus C214MA-BU0546 is a Q3 2021 durable (milspec) 11.6" 2-in-1 Chromebook. It has: Intel Celeron N4020 Processor, Intel UHD 600 Graphics (Integrated), eMMC 32GB SSD, 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and 11.6" 1366x768 screen For my mind and money this replaces the venerable Asus C101PA. This device is effectively an update 3 years ... Read more
Homo Ludens
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Homo Ludens is a book by published in 1938 by Johan Huizinga. It is meant to explain The Play Element of Culture(not just children's play). Homo Ludens is an important part of game studies. As such it is a great place to start out when designing course for children, even very young children. ... Read more
Tenderizing Chicken
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Home-raised chickens -- gai-baan in Thai -- can be extremely tough. The main reasons is that the chicken has a normal life, and is not kept sedentary, overfed, given growth hormones, nor treated with enzymes after being slaughtered. There are three approaches to tenderizing this standard-variety chicken: Brine the chicken for 12-24 hours ... Read more
Learn to Program with Scratch
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Scratch is a visual drag-and-drop programming language developed at MIT. It is the most popular programming language for young learners, with 73 million monthly visits to the scratch.mit.edu website. It is available as mobile apps and the main website, where projects can be shared and remixed. Scratch v. 3.0 is implemented in Javascript ... Read more
LibreOffice
Updated 03-Aug-2025 LibreOffice is marginally (though noticeably) better than OpenOffice. That said, it definitely has more signs of life and so it is the incomplete product which one is better off choosing, when given choice. Installing LibreOffice Installing LibreOffice is a bit strange. First off, the default gateway in Asia hasn't worked in months if ... Read more
Salad Niçoise
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Salad Nicoise, (pronounced sa-lad nih-swaaz), aka Salad Niçoise, aka La Salada Nissarda, aka the salad from Nice (nees). > Salade niçoise (French pronunciation: [niˈswaz]), la salada nissarda in the Niçard dialect of the Occitan language, is a salad that originated in the French city of Nice. It is traditionally made of tomatoes, hard-boiled ... Read more
Homemade sun-dried Tomatoes
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Tomatoes are a great thing. Though thought of as a vegetable, they are biologically a fruit. They also improve nutritionally upon being cooked. We eat them raw; and cooked as a sauce over pasta, vegetables, or meats; as a tomato juice; and as tomato soup. Sun-dried tomatoes and herbs in olive oil are ... Read more
A Minimal Kitchen
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Minimalism isn't necessarily only about less, but rather the minimum needed for effectiveness. With recipes this means the least amount of preparation, cooking, the fewest necessary ingredients, etc. Multi-Use vs. Functionally Improved For a minimal kitchen, some people confuse this with not having any single use utensils and instruments. This is a considerable ... Read more
Canola Oil – Healthy or Not?
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Canola oil is made from the canola plant, a genetically modified rapeseed plant. This was done back in the 1970s through cross-breeding to remove glucosinates and erucic acid, as those can be inedible and/or toxic. Canola is an invented word combining Canada and oil/ola). Canola is seen as a healthy oil for cooking ... Read more
Homemade Energy Bars
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Energy bars can be made at home, much less expensively and with known ingredients. It is possible to make them with few ingredients. In the recipe below there are four ingredients: Peanut butter Nonfat milk Rolled oats Protein powder (whey protein isolate) The key is to have a reasonable ratio of fats to ... Read more