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A young chef in the making

RichC
From experience, I do know that younggist children in the U.S. (often farm kids -- or commercial fisherman kids) were responsible for home chores, pitched in with caring for their siblings ... and over a century ago (thankfully) would be sent to work outside the home. But in many parts of the world, children learn a bit younger how to take care of themselves and their families. Here is one destined to work in a kitchen, or at least as a street vendor.

Flyover images of mountains on Pluto

RichC
As a boy growing up enamored with the NASA Apollo program and going to the moon in the 1960s, I’m still a little peeved at Pluto’s demotion from planet status. Nevertheless, I’m amazed at the New Horizon spaceship’s video flying over the mountains of Pluto. Amazing and a worthwhile Friday Filler on MyDesultoryBlog.com.

A curved glass bird feeder idea

RichC
For those with with a love for feeding birds and access to a curved piece of glass (or perhaps the ability to heat and curve plexiglass???) … here’s an interesting project idea. Click on image for a short .mp4 video Although having this bird feeder in your window might get old after a while, it would be a great idea for those shut-in or able to convince an assisted living facility to be able to put this in a window.

Happy New Year 2023

RichC
A Second test embedding non-YouTube video While including YouTube video is built into Hugo, using rawhtml is not.1 So this is a 2nd mp4 self-served video test for New Year’s Day 2023 to see how it is handled. BTW … beware of black ice this time of year! How to add a video to a Hugo post ↩︎

Self Hosted Video Test

RichC
A first test embedding non-YouTube video While including YouTube video is built into Hugo, using rawhtml is not.1 So this is a test mp4 self-served video to see how it is handled. How to add a video to a Hugo post ↩︎

My 24th Post

RichC
This morning I’ll be using another shortcode for Hugo that should embedd a YouTube “video” into the post.