Videos can be a productive way to pass time

Since I have been "house bound" for much of the past week, I have a lot of empathy for the people south of me will be enduring, both during and after the huge ice-and-snow storm that will be hammering them Friday, Saturday and during the clean-up.

One of the distractions that help me retain my sanity was.....Youtube!

Youtube is a tool. Youtube is like a chainsaw. You can be the master of the tool or the tool can be your master. Trust me, it is better to be the master.

Proactively "seeding" your algorithm (or feed) is a smart move.

Here are a few channels that held my interest.

Serenity

Life is good when listening to piano concertos while installing primers into brass cups. I confess to a fondness for compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Camille Saint-Saens. The Youtube video linked above is almost five hours long so you will not have to keep interacting with your device while listening.

Social commentary

Andre Williams

This guy's channel helps certain mysteries snap into focus.

For various personal reasons, I have a vested interest in understanding how I can help individuals of the African-American community be as successful as possible.

His language is edgy.

Relationships

Jimmy on Relationships. Look through his videos and click on something that you are interested in. Or not. I don't get a commission.

Conflictish. Look through his videos.... Pretty chill dude. Easy to listen to.

Understanding women

Yeah, right. Impossible, but I never saw that stop any man from trying.

EmilyWKing, Look through her videos...

 

Jedediah Bila: Look through...

The audio is garbled at the start of this video. "Cinderella took off her shoe and found love. You (modern women) took off all of your clothes and couldn't find love."

For the Francophones

 

Passe-moi les jumelles

Or, if you cannot understand French, you can turn on auto-subtitles after clicking on the gear icon in the lower, right corner of the screen. Then you can click on the gear icon again and activate auto-translate to English or any other language that they offer.

Not a French channel but Swiss.

Apples

Cummins Nursery

None of their videos go over two minutes, which is not an overwhelming amount of information.

The narrator taste-tests many unusual varieties. I watched their video on Ashmead's Kernal, Black Oxford, Boskoop and Zabergau Reinette.

You have to go to the videos page to see all of their content.

Do any of my readers want to recommend any video channels to those poor folks who might find themselves snowed/iced in?