Jamie Thingelstad

Negative temperatures with even more negative windchills make the crackle of wood in the fireplace even better as night falls. 🔥❄️

“Take the thought itself as an object.
Take the feeling of being the thinker also as an object.
What is that feeling?

It too must be an appearance in consciousness.
It feels like something, to be the source of attention.

Is there really a source of attention in the middle of experience?
Or is there just experience?”

— Sam Harris, Waking Up, Daily Meditation for Dec 21, 2022

We got together with friends and had a great time escaping Cuckoo’s Clock at Missing Pieces. We escaped with 13m 36s left on the clock having used 5 clues. Room 45!

I’m glad I grabbed a screen shot of the “Promotion of alternative social platforms policy” because now that same URL returns a 404 and appears to be deleted from the search index.

I feel like Twitter is disrespecting micro.blog by not including it in the banned list of platforms you can link to. Show some respect! Post is on there and it’s been around for 5 minutes.

Follow me @jthingelstad on micro.blog!

This new “Promotion of alternative social platforms policy” on Twitter deserves memorializing for the pure idiocy of it.

GOAL!!! Argentina 2 France 0.

GOAL!!!! Argentina 1 France 0

We had a great time at the Rock & Roll Christmas Show!

These tall pines are carrying a lot of weight. Lake Pokegama, MN.

In the crypto community there is a common and very important saying:

Not your keys, not your crypto.

Meaning if you don’t manage the private keys to your wallet, someone else is. And whoever that someone else is, they actually own your crypto. A lot of people are learning this lesson again with the fraud at FTX.

I think we need another saying for social media.

Not your domain, not your words.

If your writing is on some website where you don’t control the domain in the URL, then it isn’t your writing. Whoever controls that domain name, they can do whatever they wish. This lesson gets confused in hand wringing about censorship and freedom of speech.

If you want your words to be yours, get your own domain name, and put a website on it. There are several services that make this easy for a small fee.

Tammy and I had a fun night at Tina Schlieske’s Holiday Get-Together at the Parkway Theater tonight. 🎅🎄 Ho Ho Ho! Dinner beforehand at Sidecar - really good food!