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 jumellesOr, 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 NurseryNone 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?
Assuming we have power, I'll probably be referring to your list when I need a break from writing. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI use an alternative means of accessing YouTube to escape both the algorithm and the additional advertisements (at least the creators get the revenue from in video pitches). I highly recommend the NewPipe app if you're using an Android device to watch videos.
ReplyDeleteYes, I just started using this one, too! For some reason after the last system update, I am unable to play video's on OyTube w/ the screen off. I frequently listen to stuff in the car, or while working (w/ phone in my pocket)... so I'm rarely watching the video, only listening to the audio. New Pipe not only solved THAT problem, but allows you to download streams and play them back from your storage device. Quite useful when connectivity is sketchy.
DeleteI recommend two versions of the same tune.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4gQEslOKjI&list=RDO4gQEslOKjI&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOK8Jb76ibc&list=RDIOK8Jb76ibc&start_radio=1
Smashers, eh?
Hauntingly beautiful. Thanks for suggesting
DeleteSidetrack Adventures and Restless Viking, interesting travel destinations
ReplyDeleteDown here in south Texas, we won't see snow and ice others in North Texas will. But a distinct possibility that power blackouts due to others needing to crank up thermostat will likely happen. So laying in camp stove fuel, pre-cooked fuel and batteries for light sources at night. No internet - good ol' books will have to do.
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