101 things to do through the curfew

Those of you who are de jure / facto under curfew may find things tedious with the current pandemic. If so, feel free to peruse this list for things to do:

• Wash your hands.
• Listen to free audiobooks from LibriVox, available for iOS and android.
• Push-ups.
• Build a nifty professional website.
• Learn a language.
• Learn to meditate. Here is a course for iOS and android.
• Save the pangolins.
• Visit GapMinder and take the test.
• Learn to make risotto.
• Get a VPN, such as this, to use the internet securely.
• Visit Clearer Thinking and try their tools.
• Learn basic coding for free.
• Delete your Facebook account. You can save your photos first. Do it!
• Learn to draw.
• Switch to a search engine that doesn’t spy on you but works fine.
• Read a free ebook from here or here.
• Check your climate footprint.
• Consider why book and media copyrights last so ludricrously long.
• Rewash your hands.
• Read or listen to Heart of Darkness.
• Have unplugged days.
• Learn about solenodons.
• Learn backgammon and play it.
• Read James Joyce’s Ulysees; perhaps, starts with Dubliners.
• Learn sign language.
• Do the plank.
• Call your extended family.
• Watch Wild Tales; you’ll like it.
• In academia? Consider supporting heterodox academy.
• Practice and stage your own production of Waiting for Godot.
• Tie flies.
• Compose and publish a list of things to do.
• Make carrot cake.
• Read Seven years in Tibet
• Save the vaquita.
• Build an electronically-regulated miniature greenhouse.
• Learn to play the ukelele (or try a wind instrument at the risk of cohabitants murdering you).
• Read about Raoul Wallenberg.
• Diversify your news sources.
• Roast vegetables, allow them to cool and mix with crumbled feta cheese and fresh mint. Wrap in flatbread and serve.
• Read Alexandre Dumas
• Karoake
• Build a robot
• Read about Alexander von Humboldt (see Andrea Wulf’s books).
• Take part in an online language exchange.
• Add the privacy badger browser extension, or similar.
• If there are birds in eyeshot, learn about them. This app is useful.

Note: I have not done all of these things. These are just ideas.