I was intrigued by the interview on Pivot with Waze founder Noam Bardin on his new offering Post. He’s taking the community features that made Waze successful and applying them to social media with a focus on news. πŸ€” I’m on the waitlist.

Looking great today Minneapolis! πŸ™Œ

Government Plaza light rail station in downtown Minneapolis with skyscrapers and clear blue winter sky behind itDowntown Minneapolis skyline on a clear blue day with IDS Center tower rising prominently above surrounding skyscrapers and bare trees.

Just ordered 176 pounds of candle wax. πŸ•―οΈ

I love that This Week in POAP highlighted our Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser POAP in the Nov 15 edition! ❀️

“POAPs for good: a POAP at a family fundraiser.”

Got my picks with ETHsports for the World Cup! I won the Spain πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ entry via a raffle, and bought Germany πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ (our pick to win), Brazil πŸ‡§πŸ‡· (tournament favorite), and United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (home team) to have fun following along. ⚽️

Four soccer balls on grass, each painted with a national flag: United States, Brazil, Germany, and Spain, labeled ETHsports World Cup 2022

Ticket to Ride tonight. Tammy won by just 2 points. Mazie in 2nd. Then a big gap with me and Tyler bringing up the caboose.

Ticket to Ride board game near end of a 4-player game with red, yellow, green, and blue train pieces covering routes across the US map.

Mainnet Merge Lapse 12 "Thing"

The Mainnet Merge Paint Party was one of the fun events to celebrate the Ethereum Merge in September, and I put some pixels down and put “Thing” on that canvas to be memorialized forever. At the time there was a comment of being able to mint an NFT from the canvas, but it wasn’t ready yet. I recently stumbled onto the new and improved POAP Art website and saw that the mint feature was now live!

I minted the 12th lapse and now have my own NFT that is a animated zoom of just the area of the POAP Canvas that my name is in. You can see that I had to defend my pixels through the night.

Animated zoom into a pixel art canvas showing the word Thing spelled out in colorful pixels among a dense field of other contributors marks

If you look closely you’ll also see an “HF” in red. That is Hector’s pixels that he placed and then I defended, and eventually moved, to keep them in the final.

I also have my Mainnet Merge POAP.art Canvas Pixel Placer POAP token as well. 🀩

What a great way to remember such a historic event, and mark “I was here!”

I was reminded of The $1k Project for Ukraine today reading Fred Wilson’s blog. Connecting the dots with families in the Kherson region was the nudge I needed to move forward. Help is needed. If you are able please consider supporting a family. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ’™πŸ’›

Graphic with blue and yellow hearts and text reading I Directly Sponsored a Ukrainian Family, hashtag StandWithUkraine, and 1kproject.org