Basically, black = bad, wasted fuel. What you want is a light grey.
pro wrestling videos usually from the old heroes doing vids talking about “back in the day”
classic computer arcade and console video game videos
I’ve been watching Blondihacks videos. Useful and impressive.
YouTube is a source for arts and media, so I’ve moved this to cafe society.
I’ll watch those occasioanlly, but most of the time they stress me out to the point of panic. I was very nearly in a bad collison on the Expressway here a few years back and I could barely bring myself to drive for weeks afterwards.
As for my own rabbit holes…particularly during the pandemic and in the runup to my own first trip to Germany last fall, I watched a ton of the videos in which people review airlines and train services, or simply narrate a long train ride from point A to point B. There’s something very calming about sitting at my computer watching a voyage from Helsinki to Oslo, taking in the sights and the station architecture.
Not quite the same thing, but surely related: canal boat videos. Turns out the UK has an extensive canal system, which has been well-maintained is now mostly used for recreation. There are people who live full-time aboard canal “narrowboats,” and video their travels up and down the canals. It’s a lot like the “van-life” movement, but wetter.
I remember some old TV show that ran a story about the canal boats traveling through tunnels at some places. The owners would lie on their sides, one on each side of the boat, and propel the boat through the tunnel using their feet to run on the tunnel walls.
I have no idea your personal level of comfort with heat, humidity, traffic and pollution but I can assure you an extended stay in Bangkok will test your resolve in the above areas.
I recently had a bit of an epiphany with YouTube.
Every afternoon after work I go to the YMCA and run on the treadmill. It has YouTube and in the past I have played Fail Army stuff, football highlights, car crashes whatever violent as I listen to Pantera on my phone with Spotify. I’m fat so the idea is to drown out my screaming body with sounds and images.
But I also like Chess.
What I have discovered is my favorite Chess streamers (Narodtisky and King) are much better at disengaging my mind from my body and I am learning new Chess tactics while I run. I don’t like the corruption of the work ‘Hack’, but for me this is certainly a Life Hack (as I cringe anyway…).
Pretty much what I was going to say. Add bugs and snakes to that and you have a good picture of Southeast Asia. The only good thing that came from my one-year tour in Vietnam was that it erased that entire region from any future travel itinerary.
I suspect a ‘tour’ in Southeast Asia is a bit less intense now.
Ha! Gotta tell you that the heat, humidity and flies were the worst part of it.
I’ve got into a maths and science YouTube hole of late. Particularly Brady Haran’s channels, they are generally informative (most of the things covered I had no idea about or only a very limit knowledge of), entertaining, and there are absolutely loads of videos.
Numberphile is what got me into his stuff originally. Very cool nerdy maths stuff with a bunch of mathematicians (including fields medals winners and the like):
60 Symbols is similar but for physics:
And Objectivity has more of a historical bent, and is based at the Royal Society exploring their archives:
I don’t think I’ve watched much, if any at all, Clickspring. However, This Old Tony is another youtuber I can listen to talk all day. Plus, I like how he edits his videos.
That sounds like something that might have been done in the old days, when the boats were pulled by horses. These days canal narrow boats all have engines. Passing through tunnels does still seem to be rather harrowing, though, because a lot of the tunnels are so narrow that there’s only room for one boat at a time. You have to be careful when you enter a tunnel that there isn’t already another boat in there coming the other way.
What did they do with the horses when they came to a tunnel in the old days?
Currently I’ve fallen in a deep rabbit hole watching ascetics, gurus and sages do their thing in India. Some are Fearsome looking fellows caked in ash, dreadlocks piled high on their heads with painted symbols on their faces. Some of the things they submit to, or have done to themselves, no words. Respect.
The Deadliest Roads series:
A series that gives a POV look at the most difficult forms of transportation around the world. Now If I’m stuck in Beltway traffic or the train is ten minutes late, I don’t feel so bad.
Let me guess- they’ll show a car inching along and you think what nerves, and then here comes a giant bus with half its tires hanging over the precipice. Some of those kind of vids are as hard for me to watch as free rock climbing.
It comes and goes for me. Every once in a while, I’ll get caught up in watching tiny houses or pre-fabs, or philosophy videos. A couple of weeks ago I was bingeing a bunch of science videos by someone named Sabine something.