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2. Clint Eastwood's eyes in A Fistful of Dollars https://t.co/ldacDhJ0OM
3. Monogatari https://t.co/uYOPDIEl9e
4. Pillow Book easily the most aesthetic book I have encountered sorry Murasaki https://t.co/2OjagXaZCk
5. Clownfish Absolutely lovable and their presence brightens our oceans and our lives https://t.co/O0HGN9Iq8K
7. The Cloisters! Its a museum in upper Manhattan holding the Met's medieval art collection, and is itself a rebuild of a monastery in France. Very beautiful and worth the visit. https://t.co/ENZIuKNec2
8. Pets You can give a home to a nonhuman creature and and it will love you in its way. Pets will share your life and in caring for one you will learn more about what it means to be human. Try a adopting a pet if you havent before! https://t.co/xyAsInYzvd
9. Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire These two loved each other an awful lot and spent their lives together making beautiful books for kids. Greek Myths was my favorite when I was six https://t.co/IhM3BDoJgl
10. Trees Trees give you shade when it's hot, produce all kinds of fruit, and give us wood for building houses. Animals can live in them too! The biggest tree is Pando, which is actually 40,000 trees. Give it a visit sometime! https://t.co/iHrctYPhfL https://t.co/D25uC3AusJ
11. Pyramids Pyramids are a geometric structure that humans and aliens can't get enough of. They're all over the world. I've never seen a big one but I'd love to someday. The Giza pyramid was originally covered in smooth limestone, and may have originally had a golden cap! https://t.co/4jEXwl8dVa
12. The immune system I'm not gonna lie, I don't understand how this works. It's impossibly complicated and somehow protects you from all sorts of tiny things that can make you ill. When I get sick I read about what macrophages do and that usually helps me feel better. https://t.co/syZUlDLg8X
13. Tweed I don't know whether most people have tried wearing tweed but if you live in a place with chilly winters check it out! Originally used for country wear, it works in cities and campuses today, and you're sure to get compliments from strangers! https://t.co/GPA3udqTri
14. Speaking of which: tailors! It's common to buy clothes off the rack, but you can take them to a tailor and for a small price paid to that skilled artisan they can make them fit perfectly Your clothes will feel even better and you'll look fantastic https://t.co/1Vsvi7GcCw
15. Sailboats Is there anything more romantic than sailing? All you need is a chunk of wood, some canvas, and a few yards of well-placed lines and the wind will carry you across the world. What a marvel! Great circle navigation got me my first big job, so it's practical too. https://t.co/D4dpXI6Qo0
16. The Roman Empire Sure the Romans did some bad things, but their civilization lasted a thousand years and lives on today in our language, religion, and thought. There's always something new but almost-familiar to learn Check out a podcast to start! https://t.co/uW5MJiSCpP https://t.co/BFGql5L1TR
17. Sharks Sure, the great whites are well known and spooky, but sharks come in all shapes and colors They're one of the few remaining classes of non-bony fishes, and their skin is incredibly smooth https://t.co/JQIdia4NER
18. This conversation These guys are extemely chill and an example of how to talk to other people on the internet when you disagree I think about them a lot! https://t.co/BD6e1Cpcun
19. I lied in (17) but it was for a good reason Specifically to refer to another (this) Good thing, a time where a guy made a comic and people got mad at him for dumb reasons and he decided it would be fun to enjoy it I feel a Kinship with him https://t.co/lMbFaOe6zH
20. That feeling where you're waking up in the morning from a dream, and slowly open your eyes and reassemble your identity and what has happened to you in the last thirty-odd years (this is actually a little spooky when you're in a pickle so try to live well) https://t.co/fr9Jc6CgVd
21. Leonard Cohen So talented, so sweet, so sad. Deep waters move in his music. 'Hallelujah' is his best known song but this is my favorite, his elegy for Janis Joplin and for a time in America Still mad they gave that Nobel to Dylan instead of Cohen. https://t.co/odjHEBuxsK
22. Diatoms What the hell? These exist? And they're ALIVE? And they're plants that are EVERYWHERE? Diatoms! What the hell!! https://t.co/PJtPv6ZNAr
23. Lazy Rivers! I'm going to move some of our stuff to storage to make room for baby furniture, then come back and have a beer and some burgers and watch the sun set, and reminisce about a Summer Past when @liminal_warmth got plastered on a lazy river. https://t.co/GXJKFvmEe0
let me tell you of the worlds best thing, the Lazy River basically you get a 3mi slow moving and shallow (2'-4' deep) river segment rent inner tubes and get another one with a mesh center to float a cooler full of liquor then ride tubes down the river drinking with your pals
24. @Nelsonsscoop of Stillwater, MN Nelson's is the ideal ice cream shop form. You will like it! It's just a little shop on a corner with dozens of flavors The last time I visited my then-girlfriend paid $1.50 for a "small" ice cream cone as big as her head on a hot summer day https://t.co/i6wkjRChVV
25. I don't know what this is but I love it You don't have to watch for the whole hour but it's shockingly easy to do so https://t.co/JeNdLdvdna
26. @magichat #9 When I lived in Richmond, VA this was my go-to beer in the summer I didn't have air conditioning, so I'd come home and strip to my boxers and drink a few of these while I played Starcraft 2 Magical memories from an otherwise hard time in my life https://t.co/oSdVShMGIU
27. Helping people out Helping people out is one of the coolest things you can do. We are a prosocial race! You get to feel good and they get to feel good and you both win a deepened friendship. Titus understood this, and being Helpful is the third point of the Scout Law. https://t.co/22GcBb24eS
28. One really good thing to do is to record little video messages for your kids when you haven't even met them yet and give the recordings to the kids when they're older so even when you're gone they can hear you say how much you've always loved them.
29. Hearing faint music from a distance When you hear music at night, coming from just outside your sight, it's really wonderful--you know that nearby there are people having a good time in each other's company, and even if you don't say hello you get to share in their delight
30. The Last Unicorn Mostly the book which is really a pearl. It's beautiful, integrated Kegan 5 fantasy. There is however a Rankin Bass movie and *checks notes* Jeff Bridges voices Lir?! Apparently he loved the book too Respect, Dude https://t.co/zjL9TuWel3 https://t.co/R8qhtOSNCe
31. Badinage with your sweetie One of the best things to do at any time is Bants, and it's even better when it's with someone you're in love with Endless hours of fun and a healthy part of a foundation for a life together https://t.co/WvIweJY9K4
33. The Columbian Exchange Can you imagine a world without chocolate, tobacco, corn on the cob, or potatoe? That was everyone in Eurasia for most of history! No potato, only rock. 1493 is a great book partly about how the New World changed the Old https://t.co/6o4xmAJ1Jf
@eigenrobot Fall of Rome podcast also quite good https://t.co/az0FBIaBXq