Distractions

YouTube viewership is now besting regular television and as of last February, more people are accessing the service on wide screens than on mobile devices.

I know I use it much more than movies or television. There is something wonderfully populist and democratic about the medium. 

You can watch pretty young girls in southeast Asia catch fish, primitive families in remote Pakistan raising sheep in stark canyons, all sorts of things.

The last several years my favorites have been the polyglot Xiaoma, Ari Smith, Brad Own playing poker, the Chess international master Eric Rosen among others.

Nowadays I am also watching Vegas Matt gamble with his cronies, Matt, or NDKayak, an angler from North Dakota who nails smallies and muskies from his kayak, Police Cam Chases, Karen videos, an occasional pimple pop and recipe and a new thing.

Hoof GP, an affable guy who trims cow hooves in Scotland, now has about 2.5 million regular viewers watching him fix cow feet. Not sure why but it is addictive.

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I watched a cool Netflix short today called the Quilters about lifers in a maximum security prison in Missouri that sew quilts for autistic and foster children as part of the Restorative Justice Project. Very heartwarming and worth a watch.