The Post #85 on my way to crossing another milestone and hitting the 90-day mark. 90 is the new 30; whereas many life transformation programs will sell themselves at 30 days, a true habit or transformation takes at least 90 days. Once I passed the 30-day threshold, my next milestone was 100 days.

In less than 3 months, the newsletter was beginning to find a good stride; all the stories highlighted in issue #85 were good, some were great, and the sections were starting to define themselves. What I remember about this time in development was how much fun it was to build the letters; the only downside was that the letters were getting longer, adding time to each part of putting the daily newsletter together. 

A new section was starting to develop here, the Big Story section, which ended up being the biggest story of the stories of the day that made the newsletter. After re-reading this newsletter, if you only read one of the stories, skip down to Paint the Sky; that design/developer is fantastic!

The image I used for the baby picture in the How Old Are You, South Korean Age story reminded me of how many stock photography programs I’ve used this year. The baby blues here came from Deposit Photos, a site I picked up from AppSumo from our friend of the work and Chief Sumo, Noah Kagan. We blew through 200 + images from Deposit Photos over the last year. We’ve also used iStock, an account we’ve had for 20+ years. Adobe Stock added a few more, and we are currently using Unsplash more and more.

Unsplash has a unique model of charging a reasonable annual fee for all the images and then encourages you to give credit to the artist who took the photo. Adding photos and designs to Unsplash in 2024 is one of our goals.

A good [Re]Post today, happy Sunday!

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Today is a speed wrap; it was an exciting day, several stories we started to explore ended up on the floor once we got into them.  Not enough substance to make the With A Shout standards of excellence for our audience.  What made it includes; South Korean reverse aging, restaurant bears, chili resorts, incredible artists, and white elephants.  Curated and commented on just for you!

This story has popped up in several places, today, we will cite The Guardian, and according to reports, South Korea plans to change how they record a person’s age next year.  Most countries, including the United States, list a person born at age zero, the first anniversary of your birth; you turn one year old.  In South Korea, you are paid at one, and on your first birthday, you turn two.  The article explains a theory or two that may have been why they did it, but none of the potential explanations seem plausible.  To further confuse everyone, certain age-related restrictions like smoking or drinking use a separate system, a system more in-line with everyone else. 

In June 2023, South Korea plans to scrap the old system and enter the 21 century.  This will help with international travel since the two ages make it challenging to explain legal documentation.  The population of South Korea will all be a year younger, or next year South Koreans will turn whatever they were this year. 

Reuters reports that Albania has been giving up bears they had kept in cages outside restaurants to amuse patrons.  The story includes a video of a brown bear named Mark, who has been a captive at a restaurant for twenty years.  The charity Four Paws International has been working over the last several years to free the bears and take them to the Austrian sanctuary they run.  We live in a weird world.

Artist and designer Matt Huynh created a cool digital comic that walks you through some of Huynh’s transitions over his career and with using new technologies.  He starts the story by discussing an application that can create and replace the sky in graphic design.  Instead of writing about how Huynh created skies and backdrops as a designer, he makes an interactive comic and walks you through it.  We looked at this story from The Verge on a desktop, tablet, and iPhone; it was easiest to see and interact with on the phone.

The creativity in this piece is outstanding. 

One of the best parts about snow skiing is coming off the mountain after a day on the slopes, plopping your frozen body down in the lodge, sitting by a central fireplace, and drinking hot chocolate.  Bonus points if you add Rumple Minze peppermint schnapps to it!  The NYT has a story about winter resorts for the cold at heart.  The first one on the list is the Aspen Meadows Resort, which looks beautiful. 

Bend, ORE. I also made a list with the Campfire Hotel.  Bend is centrally located in Oregon and near Mount Bachelor, which is excellent for skiing.  Guided snowshoe tours and rock climbing are also popular in Bend.  The list ends with a few international listings in Italy and Switzerland that we have all added to our travel bucket list. 

Wirecutter from the NYT has a funny article about White Elephant gifts.  This is not the formal definition of a White Elephant; typically, it is a gift exchange attached to a game of stealing, where you can exchange the gift you were given or picked out with another.    Our favorite is below; check out the site for more fun gifts.

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