I’m delighted to see someone take the “Thing Explainer” approach to debunking cryptocurrency / NFT garbage.
The Simple English Argument Against Crypto by Stephen Diehl
Author: Karel Kerezman
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What I Want
I know I’m a needy, greedy bastard, it’s true, but here’s what I want: A home large enough for the bookshelves we need, with a space for my computer desk that isn’t in my bedroom, where we don’t share a horizontal border surface with strangers (floor or ceiling), close enough to good grocery shopping (or at least simple public transit thereto), at a price I/we can afford, that we can happily live & stay in for the next, I dunno, decade or so.
Just… putting that out there into the universe.
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The wrong conclusion is prologue to the next failure.
Apropos of absolutely nothing in particular, I’d like to send you to read 100+ Lessons Learned for Project Managers.
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Kind of lost a week, there.
I was trying to keep to a couple-times-per-week-ish posting cadence, but last week just completely ran away from me. Brain weasels, noisy neighbors, work frustrations, all the fun stuff.
I mean, I don’t really have anything to say today either, other than “Whoops, sorry about that.”
Let’s hope things improve soon.
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Music In A Minute: Get To Know Me
I’ve done little mixes before, some of which may even still be playable in the old blog archives. (I resist calling this thing a “blog” but let’s be honest here for a moment.) My music tastes are well known if you know me at all: Old pop, older prog rock, random J-pop, some heavy metal and EDM and so on.
My library grows nonetheless, and in some odd directions on occasion. I’m glad that even at the half-century mark I’m still getting into new stuff. To give you a clearer picture, perhaps, here’s a brief sampling of what I’m listening to nowadays:
I should run these down so you can explore further if you’re so inclined…
- Public Service Broadcasting, “People, Come Dance” (from Bright Magic, 2021)
- Battle Tapes, “Valkyrie” (from Polygon, 2015)
- toconoma, “N°9” (from Newtown, 2017)
- Midnight Oil, “Gadigal Land” (from The Makarrata Project, 2020)
- The HU, “Sugaan Essena” (from the soundtrack to the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, 2020)
- Sparks, “Music That You Can Dance To” (title track of album, 1986)
- Assemblage 23, “Welcome, Apocalypse (Alpha Quadrant remix)” (from Mourn, 2020)
- Pet Shop Boys, “What are we gonna do about the rich?” (from Agenda EP, 2019)
- Garbage, “No Horses” (bonus track from No Gods No Masters special edition, 2021)
- KONGOS, “Keep Your Head” (from 1929, Pt. 1, 2019)
Of course, here I am the morning after assembling this mix and realizing I didn’t get any of the Sawano Hiroyuki “[nZk]” stuff in here, and that’s a grave oversight. There’s a stunning lack of Mono Inc and VNV Nation as well.
Decisions had to be made, couldn’t fit in everything, etc. Maybe next time.
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Uh Why Me Five Oh
I looked in the site archives for March of 2012 only to discover that I didn’t write anything on or about my 40th birthday, which means I lack the nearest comparison to turning 50 in terms of “birthdays ending in zero.” (A few days after my birthday I wrote about some of the damage to my psyche from losing the Entercom job, though.)
A decade prior I wrote a quick post for turning 30, nestled in between various memes and microblogging entries. It doesn’t give me much to go on either.
And I didn’t have a website in 1992, so I’ve got nothing to work with for turning 20.
50, though. The road from 40 to 50 was a heck of a thing. Between moving out of NE PDX to the suburban blah that is the Hillsboro/Beaverton border, the advent of the pandemic, and getting diagnosed as type-2 diabetic (with all the life changes and side-effects that entails)… yeah, I feel different this time around. Some things improved (I lost weight, I’m eating better), others definitely deteriorated (my social circle is a pinpoint, my faith in humanity nearly nonexistent, diabetic neuropathy reduced my quality of life).
I honestly don’t know what I’m even trying to do next, let alone what will happen. I just hope I’m here to write about how different 60 is from 50…