Season 3, Issue 16: 🐔🎂😴

A Good Enough Zine, YAY.BOO, music + food

1. A Good Enough Zine

Please avoid live poultry

Sometimes, something is so good that it’s worth repeating: dear friends, we’ve made a zine, and it’s called A Good Enough Zine. The first issue covers the events at our little business during the month of May. 30 pages of inside jokes and silly photos. Measures 6 by 9. Printed in color. 

Give us your address if you’d like a copy. ––SL

2. The Week That Was

Even though we’re a remote team, sickness still somehow spreads among us. Arun was sick in the beginning of the week, then I (Shawn) was down for a day, and now James has a bad cold. Be careful, Barry & Patrick!

(Matthew was out, too, but for a happier reason: he’s getting married! Congratulations! 🎉)

Boo.

Our focus this week was to wrap up yay.boo (or is it YAY.BOO?). We’re done with almost all of the technical things, but the website still needs a few more finishing touches and we should be ready to official launch it next week. 👻

And we continue to publish High Quality Content over at the ol’ blog:

• Patrick wants you to consider pairing up if you’re stuck

• James pontificates on the identity anchor for us remote workers

––SL

3. Barry Shares Our Internet Finds

There is this site that comes online for about five weeks each year. It’s called The Life and Death of an Internet Onion. I haven’t actually read it, but sometimes you just enjoy that something exists? Yes. This breaks many rules of the Internet, including our own. No permanence, no deep links, varying design. Sometimes bad ideas are good ideas!

Iceberger is one type of page that we would love to see land on Yay.Boo. (Seriously, what’s the best way to type Yay.boo?) It’s a game inspired by a tweet, and it’s educational!

At first The Uncolouring Book entices you to outline the shapes you see in the clouds. Then it starts to get funny and weird and hilarious and weird. I’m sure it’s even better when people begin adding meaning to the colors/colours.

If you have any links that you think we’d dig, capitalizations that you’d like to propose for yAY.bOO, or shapes you’d like to draw for us, please fax (I mean print) them to us. —BH

4. Over at the Whale

Would you like some upbeat music? Humdrum got just the list for you on Album Whale. Or how about this list of chill grooves by Rute Correia?

Do you like music and food? Rachel Cabitt of The Art of Cover Art compiled this extraordinary list of albums with appetizing covers. 

5. In conclusion: get some sleep, will ya?

I’m supposed to be using my space today to recommend something and the only thing that comes to mind is “sleep”. Have you experienced it recently? It’s shockingly elusive for far too many of us!

My wife and I have a 7 month old at home and, although he’s been a pretty good sleeper in general, the last few weeks have been decidedly not so good. I’m sure you’re not interested in hearing yet another parent complain about how tired they are all the freaking time, so I’ll just tell you to stop fighting and close your eyes. Stop watching The Bear, skip that last game of Rocket League, and put the book down. It could literally add years to your life. —PF