Hive Posts Update: 7 April 2020

Quarantine Crafts

Since this quarantine has left me with a lot of time on my hands, I have had a chance to work on a project I have been planning for quite a while. This is a set of objective markers for tabletop role-playing games and war games.

A Jewelry Set For My Aunt

I used bulk chain, a few jump rings, silver-plated spacers, and some new lobster claw clasps for the bracelet and necklace. The earrings got some wing charms for embellishment.

Cooking Tip: Sliced Mushrooms

I had whole mushrooms in the fridge. The tedious and dangerous solution involves lots of slicing with a sharp knife close to my fingertips. I don't want to risk an emergency room visit right now. Or ever, really. But especially now. So I used an egg slicer to quickly and easily slice my shrooms.

Grumpy Caturday

Boomers, Viruses, and Karens*

I know intergenerational conflict is an absurdly collectivist way of thinking, and at best an oversimplification of complex issues. Nonetheless, I can't help feeling as if we younger Millennials and Gen Z are being treated as serfs for the Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation.

One-Way Exceptions?

Why is it that whenever there is a purported emergency, governments invariably carve out exceptions to their own constitutional restrictions and precedents, but no new allowances are made for the citizenry? Politicians don't know what is best for anyone else even in the best of times. The greater the uncertainty, the more disastrous the effects of their ignorant actions.