Free Games and Myriad Other Amusements

This truly amazing $30 bundle includes lots of great Mac games (even more on the PC side), and the revenue goes to COVID-19 relief charities. On the Mac side, "Psychonauts" and "Undertale" are classics. Also highly-rated: "World of Goo", "Into the Breach", and"Broken Age". Among the e-books, the Python book is not a typical programming book, written so non-programmers can use it. Fun! And "Saga" is a really good comic. "Journeys Through Time" is great classic sience fiction and fantasy.

In other news...

Monument Valley, a great iOs game, is now free. The announcement about Monument Valley links to some other free games (though only a few on iOs).

Don't miss "Norm Macdonald does standup about coronavirus", part 1 and part 2. Norm also has a somewhat uneven video podcast series on Youtube, "Quarantined with Norm Macdonald". Also Norm's extremely hard to find first TV interview with Jerry Seinfeld is available, audio only.

And it's a great time for a rewatch of The Leftovers, about a mysterious event that removed 2% of the world's population. Well, no, it's about the aftermath. It's one of the greatest series of all time, and features the single best episode of TV, hands down ("International Assassin", in season 2). It streams on HBO GO, and is well worth the $20-25 per season on Amazon or Apple.

If you have an old coin collection moldering in the attic, this is a good time to take stock of it (here's a site with complete information, including value, on every US coin in every date, and here's the up-to-date "melt value" of all coins re: their precious metal content).

Read about how the Earth is really really enjoying this.

Or learn a language!

There are nearly 2500 Slog postings, relatively few of which are migraine-inducing meditations on perceptual framing! Have you read all the "Popular Entries" in the left hand margin? Consider the postings labeled "Funny".The "Profiles" are a good read. And while I'm reluctant to write about music, readers have enjoyed my few exceptions.

If you'd rather sit and sulk and stress while feeling perfectly healthy, there's no shame in that choice, but if health's so valuable, why wouldn't you be exuberantly enjoying every second of good fortune?


Thanks to the various uncredited tipsters (I can't remember all, so I won't credit any).