Pizza on a George Foreman Grill

Tasty! Cooking time 6 minutes to 10 minutes, depending on how firm you want the dough.

Bookmarklet to download YouTube videos

Drag this link onto your bookmark toolbar. Click it when you're watching a YouTube video.

DownloadYouTube

What goes on when you click the bookmarklet?

The bookmarklet merely opens a new tab and changes the "www.youtube.com" portion of the URL to "www.youtubepp.com". This directs you to a third party website called Y2mate.com that will create a free download link of the YouTube video you are watching.

Javascript code:

javascript:(function(){
    var download_url = window.location.href ;
    var isyt = download_url.indexOf("youtube.com");
    if (isyt != -1 && download_url.indexOf("youtubepp.com") == -1){
        var final = download_url.replace("youtube.com", "youtubepp.com");
        window.open(final);
    }   else {
         alert ("You have to be on youtube.com for this to work!");
}})();

Relevant links:

https://mrcoles.com/bookmarklet/ converts Javascript into a bookmarklet URL
https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ decodes a URL into Javascript

[Flute] Original music

2020-02-18

[Writing]

I saw a deranged homeless man scribbling circles with a pen on napkins. He looked up at the clock as he worked fastidiously. As if he was consulting a reference for his calculations.

I think he needed to feel like he was capable and no less respectable than a college professor, even if he had no understanding of the complex work he wanted to feel like he was doing. We all want to feel worthy.

Sitting there on my laptop, reading math texts that the ministry volunteers probably did not comprehend, I struggled to grasp the concepts. Then I reflected on the behavior of the deranged man, and I laughed at the similarity between him and me.

The stuff I was reading could equally be gibberish to people around me and my efforts equally cuckoo. For all they knew, I was posturing in front of a messy scribble like the deranged man sitting in front of me.

Was I really accomplishing anything more than the man making scribbles? Was I really trying to get anywhere with the subject material, or merely fulfilling an emotional need?

Do I have any right to feel more important than him or anyone? Aren't we all doing our best to feel okay about ourselves?

Cats, because cats.

Take a brilliant math professor away from a community of people who understand mathematics, and stick him in a room of laymen. His disheveled hair and eccentric thoughts can easily mistake him for a crazy person.

Flute

Original music

Clark County Wetlands Park. Las Vegas, NV.

[Software] ImageStitcher v1.2.0

ImageStitcher v1.2.0

 

Download Installer (.msi)

2020.01.12  Update v1.2.0:

Added feature:

• Join two images vertically or side by side
• Swap the position of the images

Fixed bug:

• Image source file is no longer locked from editing while app is open.