Covid Christmas is Complicated. 😬🎄
Santa 🎅 left me Dave Grohl’s book The Storyteller and a National Parks mug that you can check off as you visit. Santa knows me very well. 😊 Merry Christmas! 🎄
Christmas Eve 2021 will now be known as The Night Before Covid Exposure Notifications. 😬
My Grandma Rose always made Krumkake. My Mom makes the Krumkake now. I took my first attempt making it tonight. Holiday traditions.
Our tradition to have steaks on the Big Green Egg on Christmas Eve.
I joined the POAPathon this morning and got my USA POAPathon Holiday Spectacular token! The POAPathon is a 24 hour event featuring holiday POAPs from around the world. 🎄
Happy Winter Solstice! ❄️
“Bottom starting” my Big Green Egg to thaw the gasket and get it open for Beef Tenderloin in a couple of hours. ❄️🔥
Happy to see that micro.blog’s new scheduling feature can also be used to create a new post in the past. I used to have to go to MarsEdit anytime I wanted to publish something with a specific date. Now I can do it by scheduling in the past! 👏
I’ve been intrigued by NFTs ever since I came upon them. Why?
For as long as computers have existed they have made it easier and cheaper to make perfect copies of things.
NFTs represent the first class of things that are not copyable, at any cost. Truly something new.
Somehow we hadn’t seen National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation so we watched it tonight. Some good laughs! 🎄
We debated for a long time if we were going to setup Christmas at the Cabin this year given the big project and related mess. We decided that Christmas must go on and put up the tree! We all love the cabin themed ornaments.🎄
Great Christmas tale told in a nine tweet thread.
Happy Holidays! Please enjoy this very bankless holiday tale. (1/9) pic.twitter.com/K3oj8d4vz5
— perchy (@TheFutureisDAO1) December 17, 2021
All the stuff from Seth Godin:
Markets often persuade us that we don’t have enough.
Communities remind us that we do.
Compelling, and I think true. It leaves me pondering about crypto communities that have both.
We are in full swing on the residing and window replacement project with Keyprime. All the windows have been replaced, most of the old cedar siding off, and the new LP going on. Big and messy project.
A new study by researchers at Imperial College London found no evidence of a difference in severity between the Omicron variant of covid-19 and the Delta variant. The risk of reinfection, however, is 5.4 times higher. Previous infection or a two-dose vaccine regimen offer no more than 20% protection against symptomatic cases of Omicron—but a booster from an mRNA jab can push this figure up to 55-80%. Omicron is quickly supplanting other strains: it now dominates in England, accounting for 54% of cases. Public-health agencies logged record infections on Friday—in Britain, New York state and — The Economist Espresso, Morning Briefing, December 18, 2021
Quantum Mirror at REM5VR
Tammy got us tickets to see the Quantum Mirror exhibit at REM5VR. We’ve been to REM5VR many times for VR games, but this Quantum Mirror is a “transcendent immersive art experience”. It was created by Adrian Stein. We weren’t real sure what to expect at all, and I was very curious.
The exhibit is limited to 6 visitors at a time, and is experienced in two settings. The first is a gallery space with digital art on the walls, and six chairs. After a moment you take a seat and take a VR experience to “upload yourself”. The VR experience was pretty cool. You didn’t walk around, more like you were on a train going through these experiences tied to the art.
Upon completion of the VR experience you then enter the Quantum Mirror. This is a room covered on all sides by mirrors, and at a variety of angles. In the center of the room are three portrait displays playing about a 10 minute loop with audio. There is no interactivity, but the reflections are very engaging. I captured a 30-second segment of the video which shows it best.
It is with a bit of surprise that I have to admit I haven’t explored digital art with any seriousness. Surprising because we have a good amount of art and appreciate it, and I’m obviously into technology, but the two haven’t intersected. This experience was cool and made me want to see more like it.
At the end of the experience you could type a message to yourself in the metaverse. This was a neat touch but lacked clarity on where it went or what happened with it. It would have been cool for that to be somewhere on the web or folded back into the experience for others to see.
Quantum Mirror had a couple of nods to crypto tech, most notably the premier digital art you could purchase also came with two NFTs. This would have been a brilliant use for a POAP token. I was really wishing I could have gotten a Quantum Mirror @ REM5VR POAP token.