jim.liebert

jim.liebert

  • Joined: September 13, 2021
  • Articles: 108

I internet so you don’t have to

1940’s, Uber, New York city YouTube user NASS restores old videos, adding color and sound. They can be kind of hypnotic, as in this one of a guy driving around Manhattan in the 1940’s. I kept wanting to tell him…

Cinnamon Rolls recipe

This is a well tested recipe! I’ve made it hundreds of times, my mom made it thousands of times and God only knows how many times her mom (and brothers and father) made it! Here’s a little more readable version…

Openers

Me: Have I have some great ideas for the opening of stories. You: Great! Now all you need to do is write the stories! Me: Um … that sounds like a lot of work. What if I wrote a story…

Eye Test

Try these visual tests! 1, Make the visual connection – what does this bring to mind? 2. First used in 1886, this is a rare Corporate logo that still uses cursive. 3. You get the idea. Try this one: 4.…

Poetry Prompts

This is a participation blog. I’ve copied some poetry prompts (courtesy of Joseph Fasano), along with my attempt and a couple of other noteworthy attempts. Try them yourself! If you like yours, feel free to send it along (here) and…

Dark Matter (it isn’t in the dark, we are)

Sneetches are Sneetches This is the story about the search for dark matter, but really it’s about the scientists who study the largest things and the scientists who study the smallest things finding common ground. Crazy stuff.   Cosmologists are…

The Brimley Cocoon Line

Wilfred Brimley at the time Cocoon was shot Who is older than Wilfred Brimley went he shot Cocoon and who is younger (as of April, 2023)? Drag the pictures to the correct bucket. If you try to put someone in…