Weekly Review #164: Explosive cornhole, Life as a codebase, and Eurobeat
A little more action in Medellin this week.
Standouts include the discovery of their national sport called Tejo, which is basically like the lawn game of cornhole but with pucks of metal and packets of gunpowder. You get drunk and throw metal at clay pits with gunpowder in them hoping to get an explosion. Pretty local!
We spent the weekend at a retreat in Santa Elena, a nearby pueblo that was actually louder than Medellin itself, due to partying neighbors with ridiculous decibel levels, and community stray dogs that come by whenever they want. It'd be cute to have a neverending stream of cute dogs coming into your house, except they all have health issues of come kind, so it's also kind of sad...
Tech
Worldpackers — www.worldpackers.com
Like Airbnb but for volunteering at hostels. Or like WOOF but in hostels instead of farms. Work and get a place to eat and sleep for free. Pretty well done site!
Lifehacks
public/Codex.md at master · busterbenson/public · GitHub — github.com
Buster Benson takes every new year to write down who he is and what he believes in, in the clear way only a programmer could. Some good thoughts in there, like how he tracks his life, what a death bed point is, and how you can never truly access the universe itself, only your perception of it.
Hat tip to Halim for this one!
How to Make a $1500 Sandwich in Only 6 Months — www.youtube.com
This guy built a sandwich from scratch, growing and making everything himself. Not easy...
Fun
NIKO / NIGHT OF FIRE — www.youtube.com
In this week's episode of 'Corey is a total geek', I confess that I've fallen in love with an obscure techno genre called Eurobeat. It's made by Italians, in super cheesy English, and only big in Japan.
So big, in fact, that there are official 'Para Para' dance moves to every song, published by third parties (composed exclusively of hand movements), as evidenced here (with 2M views?!).
I've listened to nothing else this entire week. Apparently the other fanbases are authentic Japanese people, manga geeks, and (shudder) bronies (adult fans of My Little Pony). Not my finest hour...