Homemade Marshmallows
My brother-in-law Denny recently decided to make homemade marshmallows. I guess it makes sense that this is something you can make but I honestly had no idea that was even a thing you could do. He made some for this weekend and we decided to take them out to the fire pit and see how they were roasted. He had vanilla and chocolate flavors as well.
These were larger than regular marshmallows and I like the sharp cube shape of them. It reminds me of a fancy cocktail ice cube. They also have more weight than a normal marshmallow. I roasted the first one and tried it plain. I usually don’t care much for marshmallows without the necessary grahams and Hershey’s bars. But these marshmallows were a whole different thing!
The homemade marshmallows were so smooth and gooey. They were delightful with a slight crunch on the outside and the most gooey thing you can imagine inside. Honestly they don’t work well on S’mores — they are too gooey! A must try if you can get your hands on some.
Great mission chest rewards from Famous Fox Federation today. 0.25 SOL! 💰
Beautiful day out. Time to heat up the sauna.
Good morning!
Mason Jennings at the Dakota
Tonight we saw Mason Jennings play at the Dakota. It was a wonderful show with a wide selection of songs from his portfolio. Plus he always had fun stories to share about the songs. He still has such a unique voice. 🎶
Tina Schlieske Sextet at Berlin
We made our very first visit to Berlin tonight to see the Tina Schlieske Sextet play. On stage was Tina Schlieske (vocals), Cody McKinney (bass), Pete Hennig (drums), Bryan Nichols (piano), Zacc Harris (guitar), and Brandon Wozniak (saxophone).
Tina has been dipping into jazz and doing jazz focused shows and this show was all jazz in a great jazz venue. They did two one hour sets with a break in the middle. It was all great with the highlight for me being when they did some Frank Sinatra songs. Tina really nails those songs with tons of energy. Her other favorites are Nina Simone and Billie Holiday.
I think they hit every song on the recently released album “The Good Life”. If you like jazz you should give it a listen.
Replacing batteries in chirping smoke detectors at 2:30 am. 🪫😬
I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make a POAP to commemorate my first time ice fishing!
See list of POAPs.
MapQuest winning the Internet today with this name your own gulf site. 🤣
First Time Ice Fishing
I had a lot of fun out ice fishing for the first time tonight. Andy invited Liam, Mike, and I out to his ice house in Piersons Lake for the evening. Mike had also not been ice fishing and living in Texas it was all a new experience. To make sure we got the full experience Andy had us auger holes, just for fun though. I had no idea that ice fishing could involve all this gear. We were fishing by sonar watching our jig float in the water and seeing fish as they came by. Everyone caught some! 🎣🧊
Was fun to get to put a hole in 2 feet of ice.
Tyler and I took another try at the Elite Pokémon Gacha Machine tonight. We took a first pull and got a 2022 #239 Japanese Cynthia’s Ambition PSA 10. We weren’t excited about that card and accepted the buyback making $3.55 USDC. Then we went again and got a 2006 #047 Deoxys Holo PSA 10! 🥳
Tammy and I had brunch at Diane’s Place today. We have been making our way to new restaurants that we haven’t visited. We had the Thai Tea French Toast and the Spam & Nori Croissant. Yes it actually had Spam on it! Both were good but the French Toast was terrific.
A computer can never be held accountable
Simon Willison shared this excerpt from an IBM training manual on his blog recently.
Willison did some research on this and tracked it down to a training manual from 1979.
I’m reading this 46 years later and it hits very different in our modern age of AI. Does AI make this statement any more or less true? I don’t think so.
The thing it has me thinking about equally as much though is thinking about places where people may be attempting to make AI appear to be accountable.
If there is no way to hold AI accountable, is attempting to make it appear accountable a way of eschewing or sidestepping accountability?
Bitcoin Books and BTC Price
I saw this list of Bitcoin books with the price of BTC at time of release on Nostr, reshared from stacker.news. I turned it into proper text as a table and putting it here for reference.
| Date | BTC-USD | Book |
|---|---|---|
| 03/01/14 | $258 | Bitcoin: Beginner’s Guide |
| 06/14/14 | $604 | The Book of Satoshi |
| 07/01/14 | $640 | Mastering Bitcoin |
| 05/19/15 | $241 | Digital Gold |
| 01/01/16 | $432 | The Internet of Money |
| 03/23/18 | $4,046 | The Bitcoin Standard |
| 03/26/19 | $4,028 | Programming Bitcoin |
| 06/17/19 | $31,712 | Inventing Bitcoin |
| 07/07/19 | $11,231 | Bitcoin & Black America |
| 08/01/19 | $10,791 | The Little Bitcoin Book |
| 09/03/19 | $10,620 | Why Buy Bitcoin |
| 01/01/20 | $7,194 | The Price of Tomorrow |
| 01/06/20 | $7,725 | 21 Lessons |
| 11/23/20 | $18,690 | Thank God for Bitcoin |
| 01/18/21 | $36,934 | Layered Money |
| 01/31/21 | $34,140 | Cryptoeconomics |
| 03/14/21 | $55,805 | The Blocksize War |
| 06/21/21 | $31,712 | The 7th Property |
| 07/22/21 | $32,384 | L(earn) Bitcoin |
| 08/16/21 | $48,281 | The Bullish Case for Bitcoin |
| 12/25/21 | $50,774 | Bitcoin and the American Dream |
| 03/02/22 | $39,463 | Bitcoin is Venice |
| 03/09/22 | $38,904 | Check Your Financial Privilege |
| 06/13/22 | $28,374 | Bitcoin Evangelism |
| 03/24/23 | $27,621 | Softwar |
| 03/29/23 | $28,113 | The Bitcoin Handbook |
| 04/13/23 | $40,206 | A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin |
| 05/02/23 | $28,654 | Proof of Money |
| 08/14/23 | $28,754 | Cryptosovereignty |
| 08/14/23 | $28,754 | Fiat Ruins Everything |
| 08/20/23 | $26,450 | Broken Money |
| 12/01/23 | $37,810 | Gradually, then Suddenly |
| 12/05/23 | $43,270 | The Hidden Cost of Money |
| 01/01/24 | $42,221 | The Fiat Standard |
| 01/03/24 | $43,556 | The Genesis Book |
| 04/04/24 | $69,001 | The Conservative Case for Bitcoin |
| 06/14/24 | $66,700 | Resistance Money |
| 07/19/24 | $68,088 | National Security in the Digital.. |
| 11/10/24 | $88,637 | The Bushido of Bitcoin |
| 02/03/25 | $101,405 | The Big Print |
We went to Captain America: Brave New World tonight. This was a “gift” from Tammy and Tyler who don’t care for Super Hero movies at all. I think they can be a lot of fun. I thought it was a good movie — exactly what I was expecting. 🍿
Gus Gus Cheeseburgers
We have been wanting to have dinner at Gus Gus for a while and tonight we had a reservation and made our way to St. Paul to try what we had heard was an amazing cheeseburger. We all ordered it and loved it. For a gourmet burger it was fabulous. Tammy thought it may top the delicious burger at Lake and Irving. I thought it tied it. However the fries would clearly tip Gus Gus to the win — they were incredible. The bun was so airy and delightful. The cheese was ridiculously melty. No notes.
Instanbul Gambit at Enigma Adventure
Tyler, Tammy, and I had a lot of fun solving our way through The Istanbul Gambit at Enigma Adventures in Bloomington today. We finished the room with just 1m 39s remaining on the clock. This was our 64th escape room!
The room was very well done and we always felt like we were moving forward. There were multiple “a ha” moments and towards the end a super cool solve involving lasers. Also unique with this room was that you actually had three separate tasks to complete, with the final being to get out of the room. It even had an add-on mission to identify some additional information that you could tackle if you had time. We did that one as well!
Recommended room!
