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POAP 5126670 at POAP Community Call #22.

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TeamSPS is always pushing forward, and earning. Karin Lucas welcoming the team as we keep leading the way!

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Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 13 for Retroactive Funding and Lil Grants Pool. txn.

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Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 10 to Buy Noun #253 from Nouns DAO. txn.

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Tammy and I at the 2022 SPS Social! 🎉 Also see 2018 and 2016.

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Nice night for Glen Lake GAL Softball! Mazie covering 2nd base. 🥎

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The new window manager that Apple announced at WWDC today, Stage Manager, looks interesting. I like how the experience works on a variety of display sizes. It makes me chuckle that we’ve had GUIs for 30 years and we are still figuring out window managers. 🤓

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No Kowalski’s — there is no such thing as a Watermelon Tenderloin! 🤦‍♂️

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Edina Art Fair 2022

The Edina Art Fair has returned from the pandemic this year! Mazie and I made a quick visit and the art was great!

Some artists that caught our attention:

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Tostado Chilaquiles with Slow-Roasted Pork at Hola Arepa is one of my favorite brunches in the Twin Cities.

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My Introduction to the POAP Community

I shared this introduction on the POAP Discourse server on January 8. I’m publishing here on my blog as well for posterity. I’m still a big fan of POAPs. It is my favorite project to introduce people to crypto with.

gm all! 👋

I first discovered POAP’s with the ENS 4th Anniversary Snapshot Vote on 04-June-2021 and I was instantly intrigued. I have always had fun collecting things and particularly find it interesting having digital tokens that capture things. Photos stop time. Geo coordinates stop motion. POAPs are a time capsule of something of note.

I created my first POAP to give to the members of my book club when we read Klara and the Sun. Mindblown! I think it was shortly after that that I joined the POAP Discord. I’m also a proud holder of the Early Issuer POAP. I’ve since created 12 POAP events for a variety of uses.

Special POAPs, that have a place in my heart.

I’ve become quite a fan of the project. I think it is a great way to curate memories. I also love it as a way to introduce people to crypto as a totally non-economic activity.

I didn’t realize how bad farming was until we issued our Reading Things First 100 POAP. We have a family newsletter called Reading Things that is all about, well, reading. My whole family writes in it and we send quarterly. We sent this POAP because we hit 100 subscribers. I didn’t know at the time how to do a unique claim code to each subscriber (like I did for the Weekly Thing 200 one)… so I just put a POAP.website link in… it was farmed terribly. I honestly wish I could “burn” that whole event and destroy all those tokens because they are trash… the farmers destroyed what should have been a cool memory for us to celebrate with these 100 first subscribers…

This got a bit longer than I was expecting… It is fun to continue to see the growth of the POAP ecosystem! You can see my collection of POAPs as well…

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I always like to see all the American Flags flying on the north-western shore of Cannon Lake. 🇺🇸

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Strawberries are coming in the garden! Fresh picked strawberries are a family favorite. 🍓

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POAP 5106957 at You were one of the first 25 minters of FloriNouns!⌐◨-◨.

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Joined Lil Nouns DAO

I won the auction for Lil Noun 1416 and am now a member of Lil Nouns DAO, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization. Lil Nouns is a connected project to Nouns DAO. Nouns DAO auctions a new “Noun” once a day, forever. Lil Nouns, launched on May 9, 2022, does the same, but every 15-minutes, and it is a “Lil Noun”. Both projects primarily use the Nouns to create a treasury that is then managed by the DAO, and funds proposals to extend the “Noun Ecosystem”, in whichever way the DAO members vote. Noun DAO has a tresury of over 24,000 ETH, or approximately $48 million. Lil Nouns treasury is nearing 1,000 ETH, or nearing $2 million.

The two projects are connected by Lil Nouns DAO sending Nouns DAO a Lil Noun every tenth mint, effectively giving the collective of Nouns DAO an 8% voting stake in Lil Nouns DAO, and Lil Nouns holding in its treasury a couple of Nouns. They also run on effectively the same code with slight modification for timing and the Noun images.

Many NFT projects the NFT is the thing that people really want, and there may be an organization behind it. Nouns and Lil Nouns is a DAO, and the way you gain access is by holding the NFT. The funds from the NFT go to the DAO to manage, not an organization building the NFT. There are already 13 [proposals] the DAO is considering, mostly early formation stuff.

I continue to think DAO’s are very interesting, and frame them broadly as a way to organize collective action. I wanted to be part of Lil Nouns because it looks like a great example of doing just that.

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Sigur Rós at State Theatre

We saw Sigur Rós at the State Theatre this evening. I first heard of Sigur Rós from their 2008 album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, which I got into after visiting Iceland in 2012 and then saw them in 2013 when they played in Minneapolis.

I enjoy their music but with every album it seems to get more “ethereal” or even ambient, and slow. Their newest work is a far leap from that 2008 album. It is good, but I wouldn’t mind if they picked up the pace on some of the newer albums.

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We all went to Top Gun: Maverick on opening weekend. We saw it at Emagine Willow Creek in the comfortable recliners. Everyone loved the movie! Fabulous. There was a touch of nostalgia for Tammy and I having seen Top Gun years ago, but the kids also thought it was great having no idea about the first movie.

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Magic Pines Summer of 2022 POAP

I’m doing what I consider another fun Proof of Attendance Protocol, or POAP, token! We greatly enjoy our summers at the lake and we have a lot of people join us there. We call our lake place Magic Pines. I love finding ways to commemorate these fun times and I thought it would be fun to give people a POAP token each summer! From that, the Magic Pines Summer of 2022 token was born!

This token celebrates the Summer of 2022 at Magic Pines, the Thingelstad’s lake house. The token can only be claimed in-person by visiting Magic Pines between Memorial Day weekend on Saturday, May 28 and Labor Day on Monday, September 5th. The token image was created via a Poapathan competition by kavishsethi#2327. A larger version of the image is on IPFS at CID QmZXjAZvNSP8z4N4f1HzfJFhDvG1TdVLZLsHHqJp96kgLZ.

I love the custom artwork via Poapathon. I’m going to print out “claim sheets” that have instructions for people that have never done this before, which is most everyone. I think it could be cool to issue a new one of these every year with new artwork for that year.

I realized when doing this that Magic Pines itself should have one, so magicpines.eth is all setup now! Maybe it will become a DAO for the family at some point. 😊

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Gift for Weekly Thing POAP Holders

I saw this HELLO “Ink” on Nifty.Ink and I just thought it was a fun image. The author had minted 100 of them for only 0.10 DAI ($0.10 USD) each and an idea sprung into my mind.

I should send one of these to everyone that has minted a Weekly Thing POAP token! 🎁

I went to the Weekly Thing #200 and Weekly Thing Five Year Anniversary event pages and downloaded the CSV of the addresses that have it. Deduplicated the list and then proceeded to buy and send a copy of HELLO to every address.

If you hold a Weekly Thing POAP, you will now find that you have HELLO in your wallet on Gnosis chain. 🎉

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LEGO World Map

The LEGO World Map is complete!

There are two very notable things about the LEGO World Map.

  1. I think this is the ideal LEGO for someone that is really into jigsaw puzzles. The build of this LEGO is not like any other that I’ve done.
  2. I found this LEGO an overwhelming build. I would typically want to do a LEGO on my own, so I experience it all. This one I needed help, and it really got done because a few others got involved and it was very easy to do each tile in parallel.

At 11,695 pieces this is a big project. I started this project right after Christmas!

Once we got about 80% done with the tiles we could see the end and and there was a strong desire to get it all together. The last half of the build was more fun than the first half for sure.

Thanks to help from Tammy, the kids, and two of their cousins!