Having a fun day at Epcot with our family, my Mom, my Sister and her family! Photo in Italy after finishing some delicious pizza at Via Napoli.
Not going to let a bit of a downpour stop our fun at Epcot. 🌧️
Disney World Log Day 2
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 17,354
- Take bus to Animal Kingdom
- Go to Bugs Life
- Most restaurants not open but found breakfast at carts
- Go on Safari Ride
- Train to Rafiki’s Island
- Lunch at Tiffen
- Garrett and Dylan return to hotel
- River Rapids ride
- Mom and Alona shopping
- Mazie rides Everest solo
- Go to bird show
- Met back up for Navis River ride
- Go to Lion King performance
- Ice Creams
- Bus back to Pop Century
- Cold evening swim
- Dinner at Pop Century
Disney World Log Day 1
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 19,381
- Skyliner to Epcot
- Ratatouille ride
- Breakfast at Patisseries
- Explored countries thru Italy
- Lunch at Via Napoli
- Tried to take boat in Mexico,not working
- Ride Guardians of the Galaxy 😬
- Lefse at Bakeri in Norway
- Ride Frozen in Norway
- China and movie in China
- Dinner in Germany: Caramel Corn, Sweets, Beer, Pretzel, Bratwurst
- Boat to Hollywood Studios
- Met up with Sister and her family, Mom
- Ride Minnie & Mickey train
- Explored Galaxy’s Edge at night
- Ride Toy Story Blaster Ride which Dad won
- Rode Skyliner back to hotel
First day that my Gnosis Chain validators have earned over 0.5 mGNO. Also had 8 proposals, although missed one.
Boarded DL2221 to Orlando to visit Disney World! Going to see Disney Classics with the family and then jump into Star Wars and visit Galaxy’s Edge. 🤩
First snowfall of 2022 on October 14th. It will all melt, but it is still a fun sight. Minneapolis, MN. ❄️
At today’s MnTech board meeting we heard presentations from the 2022 ACE Leadership participants as they finished the program. Wonderful group of gifted leaders bringing innovative ideas forward.
Celebrating the Minnesota United victory — with a photobomber! 🎉⚽️
Watching the irrigation techs during halftime at Allianz Field is one of my favorites. Don’t know why. 💦
Minnesota United v Vancouver Whitecaps starting 2nd half. United leading 1-0, and playoff bound? ⚽️
Project “Float the Boat” is successful! Dock crew attached cables to the pontoons and pulled it back into the water with the winch. Once it was moving the front SeaLegs came free. Smart that the SeaLegs fold up towards the front of the boat. 🎉
Got our Halloween pumpkins at Little Hill Berry Farm by Northfield this morning. 🎃 They also had a delicious Blueberry Pancake breakfast. 🥞🫐☕️
S’mores. 🔥
Cats Will Eat You created “Eleven Virtual Faces” collection and I liked all of them. I decided to get Virtual Face XI to add to my collection from him. He does these paintings in VR, and the look is incredible.
Fall is upon us. 🍂
Project “Float the Boat” has gotten harder. Cannon Lake is down another couple inches. The rear SeaLeg is up, but the front is stuck in the muck. Spent 30 mins trying to clear it with no luck. Tomorrow the dock guy comes. Hoping for a breakthrough. 🤞
Beautiful night for a campfire with a nearly full moon.
State of Blockchain 2022 Event
MN Blockchain hosted their annual State of Blockchain event this evening at Fueled Collective in Downtown Minneapolis. This was the first event of theirs that I have gone to and it was a good evening.
There was an hour for networking and food with a handful of people displaying projects or work they had done. I got to meet Cats Will Eat You, one of the local artists that I have been following for a while. I own Ring, Rang, Rung from him. I also got to check out Inside the Robot and Nuclear Nerds.
For the panels and presenters it started out with storage and the blockchain and a session with Filecoin and StorJ. They are each solving the problem from a different angle with Filecoin more focused on long-term archival and StorJ on distribution and CDN functions. They’ll both cross over into each other space.
Disclosure: I am a small investor in a Filecoin provider and hold Filecoin tokens.
It was really cool to see UMN Blockchain club there. The club has over 300 people engaged and an active community. They won the Columbia University hackathon for crypto.
Another highlight for me was the presentation on using NFTs for campaign fund raising. Not that I’m excited about raising money for campaigns, but I think it is a model of creating community and collective action. The highlight was that the average fund raise from the NFT was $5, but then follow-on donations from those individuals was another $250.
I noted that there wasn’t very much overlap between the technology events I typically go to and this one. On the plus side, this event was significantly more diverse on every metric than any tech events I’ve been to. I loved that. At the same time, I think it is a miss to not get more passionate technologists at these events to stir the creativity and have interesting outcomes.
I worked with the organizers to make a POAP for the event, but it was last minute and the distribution was not thought out well enough. More thoughts to come on using POAPs at events. It was also the first time I distributed a “You’ve met me” POAP, which was fun to do.
