After three months of very little activity, The Divine project finally took off today! I have Divine 1211 and I decided to mint three more (4040, 4041, 4042) before the mint closes out, which should be today at this rate.
I am greatly enjoying How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason. Interesting history and stories. It is also a great prelude to our trip there this summer! 📚✈️ 🇮🇸
When I read articles from people sharing their bespoke Obsidian setups I think one of the best things I’ve done for my productivity is to completely ignore Obsidian.
Web 1 → read-only, publish
Web 2 → read-write, APIs, social
Web 2.5 → semantics, microformats, payments (bank)
Web 3 → trust, identity, ownership, payments (direct)
All build on each other. Forward adoption not mandatory.
We just booked the flights for our 2-week trip to Iceland this summer! I can’t wait to return and this time with the whole family. Iceland is such a beautiful and magical place. 🇮🇸
Enjoyed Ron’s Gone Wrong tonight. It was a super fun movie, with a good story, and a good criticism of social apps and kids. Plus Ron was an awesome character. 🍿
The Omicron variant is spreading at an incredible rate. 👀 Via The New York Times (Jan 7, 2022).
At SPS one of our engineers started a thread for everyone to share their “Frequently Used” emoji from Slack. It was really fun and interesting to see the themes across different peoples suggestions. Here are mine.
664 days into the COVID-19 pandemic and I got it. 😞 Two days after significant exposure. Fully vaccinated and boosted. Symptoms are congestion, low energy levels, tired. No coughing or headache. Taste and smell just fine.
We just barely beat the new Robot Rampage room at Trapped Puzzle Rooms in St. Paul. 59m 36s. Whew! It was a fun room! Room 38!
We had a fabulous hike in the snow at Wood-Rill SNA today.
Family selfie on my big birthday! 5️⃣0️⃣
The Big 5 O Song!
Tammy surprised me with an amazing gift for my 50th Birthday today — my very own song! A full on rock song for me featuring the family. I love it! It is on YouTube but is also published on Apple Music and Spotify!
Song by Songlorious! 🎶
My daughter has a great way of framing my big birthday! 🤣
Jamie v5.0.0
Today I turn fifty! 🎉
I don’t find that I have a lot of profundity to share. But here are some thoughts…
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I have never regretted being generous.
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Most things are much more “in the middle” than I used to think. Right and wrong. True and false. Binary things. Often things are not that simple.
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Our time is finite. And despite the saying “time is money”, it isn’t. You have control over money. You have no control over time being spent, only how it is spent.
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Many things are positioned is this or that, when they can easily be this and that.
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I’m amazed at how much Buddhism got right so very long ago about attention, being present, mindfulness.
Wicky Thing Tealights
Yesterday I made more 12oz candles, as well as some tealight candles. After realizing that the small tealights needed to be on a towel to slow down cooling they came out great. Today I did a burn test on four of them. The wood wick still gives a great crackling sound, even at the small size. Burn time is impressive at 5 hours or more. Good scent throw too for such a small candle.
I’ll keep a number of these around because you always have little bits of extra wax when making candles and having tealights to fill up would be a great way to use that.
We made it 662 days into the pandemic before having a confirmed COVID-19 exposure. We are all vaccinated and three of us are boosted. 🤞🦠
Bummer for me that it happened the day before my birthday. 😬
New reported Covid-19 cases via The New York Times. I wonder what this Omicron spike would like like without vaccines. The slope of that climb is incredible.
First attempt at making tealight candles along with some regular Things 4 Good candles. Requires precision for 0.5 oz pour. Towel under the tealights is to slow down cooling. First ones I let sit on counter and the wax tunneled as it cooled too fast. 🕯
