Tuesday Best Bits: Zero Interest Rates Are Gone, ZooBorns, Ugliest Buildings, PayPhraseMe, Music by Ren

Another TBB post featuring just a few eclectic links around the web such as a list of ridiculous things zero interest rates caused, a fun link dedicated to births at zoos around the world, the ugliest buildings in the world, instantly search for a phrase in a movie and a new (to me) artist doing his own thing which I appreciate and admire…

 

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Starting short Tuesday posts, not sure how long they will last. Calling them Tuesday Best Bits. As in TBB, get it? Everything revolves around here…

For old readers, this will resemble the past Best of Web posts. Just a short post with some exceptional finds, hope you like it. I always welcome feedback.

 

11 Things That 0% Interest Rates Caused

Great read and, here they are:

Day Trading as a Career

Chamath’s SPACs

ESG Investing

Venture capital-subsidized lifestyles

Miami

NFTs

Adjusted EBITDA

Work-life Balance

The Metaverse

Dudes Working Seven Different Remote Jobs

Cathie Wood

The most ridiculous one on the list must be them NFTs!

Folks were really out here paying $500,000+ for pictures of rocks and monkeys instead of, like, I don’t know, buying a house? “Oh but bro we get exclusive membership to in-person events.” Sick, there really isn’t anything better than spending your weekend at a conference full of folks whose only commonality is that they all spent six figures on pictures that looked something like this:

Out of everything that stemmed from zero percent interest rates, NFT culture was the most insufferable. I welcome the second coming of the Great Depression if it means the JPEGs end up worthless. [Same!]

 

ZooBorns

A website dedicate to births at zoos around the world. When you want some inspiration come here. Cuteness overload, you have been warned, baby rhinos are the best!

 

The Ugliest Buildings in the World

As with all lists, it is subjective. Would you ever guess the ugliest building is the Scottish Parliament Building? Nope…and so it goes.

 

PayPhrase.me

Very cool site to play around with. Type a phrase and the site instantly searches AND plays back the same exact phrase in movies! Sadly, it stops at the first five movies and then you need to become a sponsor to roll the rest. Still, I played around with several phrases involving colorful language and it was fun, enjoy!

 

Music by Ren

People who know me know I have a, well, different taste in music. It has to be weird, unique, innovative. Top 40 never did it for me (except for a few isolated cases). I LOVE discovering new music. And when I find something that moves me, I go all in for a while…until I find something else lol. Rinse and repeat. So, who is the latest artist who has rocked my world? It is this dude who goes by Ren, I can’t believe I never heard of this guy before! He had been sick with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for over ten years and the pain just comes out in his music and shakes you to the core! Certainly not for everybody for sure but I think I recognize pure talent and I do admire going your own way doing what you love and helping people along the way. Kind of like my blogging I guess. Obviously, I do not have 567,000 YouTube subscribers…maybe it is because it has been several years since I last posted a video in my blog’s YouTube channel LOL.

Anyway, a few selected songs I liked:

Violet’s Tale

Chalk Outlines with X Chinchilla

Wild Thoughts/Crazy in Love (live with Sam Tompkins)

and this absolute masterpiece…of course, imho. I hope you come back to my blog lol.

The video ends with him facing the camera and saying this:

When I was 17 years old I shouted out into an empty room, into a blank canvas, that I would defeat the forces of evil, and for the next 10 years of my life I suffered the consequences… With Illness, autoimmunity and psychosis. As I got older I realised that there were no real winners or no real losers in physiological warfare. But there were victims and there were students. It wasn’t David verses Goliath, it’s was a pendulum eternally swaying between the dark and the light, and the brighter the light shone, the darker the shadow it cast. It was never a battle for me to win, it was an eternal dance, and like a dance, the more rigid I became the harder it got. The more I cursed my clumsy footsteps the more i suffered. And so I got older and I learned to relax, and I learned to soften, and that dance got easier. It is this eternal waltz that separates human beings from angels, from demons, from gods. And I must not forget, we must not forget, that we are human beings.

Relax everyone!

Update: Ren has a GoFundme right now to help him with the medical treatment he is currently undergoing in Calgary, Canada. His medical ordeal is explained in more detail and grace. Thanks to TBB blog reader A. who informed me about this. I have donated because I have been touched by his music and want him to continue making it. Support anyone/anything you want to continue!