Danielle Ponder started things off at Mothership Weekend. Her vocals were powerful. The songs were great. It was an impressive performance. She ended with a cover of Creep that was incredible.

We have arrived at Brandi Carlile’s Mothership Weekend!

Hello Miramar Beach! 🏖️

tourist

noun

  1. One who travels for pleasure.

  2. One who makes a tour; one who makes a journey for pleasure, stopping at a number of places for the purpose of seeing the sights, scenery, etc.

  3. One who makes a tour, or performs a journey, especially for pleasure.

Just switched thingelstad.com to the new Tiny Theme from Matt Langford. I love the focus on simplicity and speed. The layout is really clean. I also appreciate how much he is focusing on supporting the full feature set of Micro.blog, as well as popular plug-ins. 👏

Mothership Weekend

Very excited to be heading to Brandi Carlile’s Mothership Weekend today! 🎶

Friday: Brandi Carlile, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, and Danielle Ponder

Saturday: Hozier, Mavis Staples, The Milk Carton Kids, and Katie Pruitt

Sunday: Brandi Carlile, Emmylou Harris, Fancy Hagood

This is going to be an amazing weekend of music and fun in Miramar Beach!

Thinking about making a crypto themed Wicky Thing Candle that you can only purchase via a L2 crypto network: Bitcoin Lightning, Gnosis, Arbitrum, Optimism, or Polygon. 🤩🤣🤓

Created a nostr account to play and see how it works. Using Damus on iOS for client. My public key is npub19qj5v5hx54pm7gqtn5zallvrtc2pf4mudgvyj3x9y97ggtse8nmq0tas0s.

Finally figured out Bitcoin Lightning transactions. Ready to use Lightning at Bitcoin Miami. Want to try? Send some Sats to sinfuljam38@walletofsatoshi.com or jthingelstad@strike.army. ⚡️

I applaud the Gnosis Chain Weekly moving to Ghost from Substack. 👏

Crypto and web3 projects oddly decide to have this extreme reliance on the most centralized platforms the Internet has — Twitter and Substack. Meanwhile we have perfectly good, open, censorship resistance methods like email and RSS sitting unused.

RSS should be widely adopted in Web3.

The first attempt to keep the squirrels out of these snacks we leave at the door failed in a single day. 😬🐿️

I claimed my ENS 6th Anniversary POAP for: thingelstad.eth, weeklything.eth, 0xjjt.eth, and magicpines.eth. Unfortunately I don’t have avatar records set for all my ENS domains. Get yours at the ENS Anniversary site.

Learning is to your mind,

as moving is to your body.

Both are key to thriving.

Tyler got to perform as part of the MN Statewide Honors Choir today. It was a lot of work but he enjoyed being part of it and the perfermance was great.

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s Largest Software Development Firms in the Twin Cities ranked by software developers.

Ethereum gas prices have been very high and sustained for a week now. This seems like the highest since the merge and the crazy highs of 2020. 🤔 I would like to upgrade all my ENS domains to the v3 wrapper but not at 100+ gwei!

Thanks to an invite from Hector, I was able to join the Economic Club of Minnesota luncheon today with James Bullard, the President & CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in discussion with Neel Kashkari, President & CEO of the Minneapolis Fed.

Tammy and I had a fun evening at Constellation Fund Bright Night event at the Fillmore. Constellations data driven approach to philanthropy and working to reduce poverty in the Twin Cities is a mission and method that resonates with me.

I purchased nnxyz abstract #0000 which comes with all 50 of the abstract collection. This is the fourth nnxyz collection that I have now. 🤩

MnTech Tech Connect 2023

I had a good time learning new topics and connecting with other technology leaders at the MnTech Tech Connect event today.

My sessions:

  • Technological Disruption: A Futurist’s Perspective with Matt Versaggi
  • Exploring OpenAI: Practical Applications for Real-World Problem Solving with Nick Kwicien
  • The Art of Personalization wtih AI/ML: Optimizing Conversion by Showing Customers What They Want with Matt Yates and Max Lindquist
  • Empowering Our Future Through Science with Dr. Jayshree Seth
  • Cybersecurity State of the Union 2023 with Aaron Warner
  • The Future Fit Digital Organization: What Does the Data Say? with Charles Betz
  • Driving Business Success Through Innovation and Technology panel with Steve Arsenault, David Bingenheimer, David Black, Chris Chapman, and Julie Durham facilitated by Jeff Tollefson