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Alberta outdoorsman, family man, BTC educator and tree guy. Free Speech. Free Markets. Free Humanity.

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2024-09-17 08:23:36

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Awesome. That’s a sweet setup. Remember, look up and live. And always give yourself two clear routes out of the fall zone.

2024-09-17 03:36:10

Getting a little light show tonight. GN everyone. https://image.nostr.build/6e99f37d6fcf8f7d2bc1bc3850409bc31a3a6445b6584757c5bb838aee1ed1b2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/11bc00a0f41e5ddcdc816280c3bc2339283965fe8b2482184e13eaef9334eb88.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bc24a76c60c28fc6c616370542e1c43aceccb87b8e9013457b5dbc41ddb2261e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3a6ea0f412c878f3ef6f3deecfda43d8df07a6973acd9d00584bf3fdfaffbd54.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5088709c7bb4ef19a897618a09d7b7ab81c5378ab034b2dbeafc7f10866715e9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/abd3e5f0c13d5a349b65855cfdac3f2ce9ce1361a8fc2732810aef7828c30fe4.jpg

2024-09-16 15:26:25

GM degens. Have a blessed day 🤙🏽 https://image.nostr.build/da0d3b73d1570c2021f64fe702d32ffeb19f68dd9afa396ee093b5534febc59a.jpg

2024-09-15 18:44:21

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It’s funny when the kids used to bug us about what was on the menu for dinner, we used to always answer”Liver and onions.” Lol. It’s good stuff. Beats paying 70 bucks for a handful of organ meat capsules that have less than a gram in them.
#carnivore

2024-09-13 15:50:01

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Yes it’s funny I bought it first with this nice looking hammered finish powdercoat and within a week it was peeling. So I got the black one and it rusts very easily. Apparently it’s a known issue with Remington the last few years.

2024-09-13 15:47:25

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Alessandra Ambrosio is so hot.

2024-09-13 15:44:46

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All I dream about is a Benelli M4. But it’s way out of my budget so my Remington 870 with the substandard finish Remington is turning out these days will have to do. The thing rusts if you even look at it.

2024-09-13 01:38:38

Hi all. Just wanted to say how awesome the guys at @npub126n…e9ll are and what a great experience it has been setting up and maintaining nodes and other sovereign computing services with their OS. Great team, great support and a beautiful product!
https://start9.com/

2024-09-11 15:32:37

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GM Jay!

2024-09-11 15:31:16

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“Pull it.”

2024-09-10 03:42:30

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I have not. When I was on the department we just used a charged 1 1/2” line and a long piece of chain. It usually made a pretty good mess in peoples living rooms though. That was a long time ago.

2024-09-10 02:47:24

Finally done. I’ll tarp this before the snow comes, but we are pretty solid for emergency heat between this, an 8x8 shed stacked to the ceiling and a Mr. Heater Little Buddy with four 25lb propane tanks and a 100lb propane tank. https://image.nostr.build/2317d4befbfe44c72349a15e4f7b86c4be9df968799b47ffd73329f8c2f1bc58.jpg https://image.nostr.build/331b4522e0f1e83ace1c6b465b85b2b50c48bc28c3b9ad55357f21f51160c6f6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b98daf916261840e40c4615a59b8a710611ae0a3f3604f64dc90a797e4a7688f.jpg

2024-09-09 10:48:41

@npub1yxl…e68r congrats guys

2024-09-09 00:47:19

Nice day in the bush. I just took a few shots with the .270 at the pit near our usual deer camp, to make sure the rifle was still sighted in. Not a stellar pattern, but the first shots of the season were all good enough for solid vital hits. The first one was in the 3” spot, and the pattern was about 3”. I have it zeroed at 200 yd so it’s supposed to be 2” high at this 100 yd distance. Another couple sessions before game day and I should be dialed again.
Then we went to the lake and old original campsite a few miles away to splash around with the dog and catch some rays with a few bevvies. Ended up buck assed naked hoping no one would drive into the camp before the afternoon was done lol. May have traumatized the dog. It was a good day. https://image.nostr.build/1d7b549bedfdd00043150236d069d1b49b89918f54fa449628efb9b756d8df2e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/15f6b2b75569a63fc32386e02c138af589834184b4d8bf4995df60fa7f1cf893.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d82794294ecfb559b67fe9a527f91aed6734872743cf120b2404a107916de51c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f26742737fcbeb7fb3207a07911793d78fcf61f30bd82f497c9abd3ad5c4878d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/35e4351cfb17c82802b8716e5ccc1f5d9466f05952c643134d09ee5d8e2a10e2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e3f3f63bc8cc10351efeacf360966f32e4d2a93f711e24ce26925485796531dd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0c962fd85d1b8b81e33109516e9809633f4748aea965b7277213e6707400dca7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3315a63dc3652bac6e6c6cec9b8133208825937a9439d7a40c6f48fe843722d1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5ac581902e90c32321fb6c6f8c8aa6e378b3bff890e1dc3e81d5afc30a4a3eca.jpg https://image.nostr.build/abeff9a70901ec0eb7c21372f28cc11dc68172f4b3f1e103aa07365857c886d0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/68d1f75b065fef75dd914a4abe9408ac5c576fe6771427fdf71203710757b631.jpg

2024-09-08 02:38:08

I will never pay capital gains on BTC that was purchased with taxed employment income.

2024-09-07 21:53:20

Finally done for the year after a mega session today. About 8 hours of swinging between last night and this afternoon. I’m not going to be able to move tomorrow lol. It’s hard to believe this is all from one tree, and there’s still another truckload of it up near deer camp waiting for us to get there mid October. https://image.nostr.build/3e78736e4d264f0955081710a66eeeeba50199e3f5abfa7555fdd80a0046aeb7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9af8f9bd5f9462db55498ecdbda750316f3819d96f4a7e4e527510fa0037f66a.jpg

2024-09-07 13:20:06

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I think the only thing that is going to get the parasite class off our backs is if a critical mass of people prep some provisions ahead of time and just decide to stop going to work for a handful of months and just spend their days gathering the essentials as their “job”. The unfortunate thing is that prepping takes money, and the rate that people can get ready for such an action is woefully slow when most of us have like $20 left over by noon on payday once bills are paid. Man I hope the next bull run rips faces off. It’s my best hope at a few years of a sovereign living before my soul shuffles off this rock.

2024-09-07 04:01:30

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I used to supervise trades on new builds and that would pass A++

2024-09-07 03:55:17

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Beautiful job. You rock

2024-09-06 15:15:00

Lacto fermenting San Marzano tomatoes, and some cukes. https://image.nostr.build/27a8a545c421a51972fd20c369b85d8bda109ce018684a7192a9e07716a9e788.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3d361e706d136b191297d646e4b1311e40168b58c350819a303eeae81846bf58.jpg

2024-09-05 09:13:38

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Brilliant. You can go one better and depending on how many voicemail messages your cell phone plan permits storage of, call yourself that many times and leave X number of short voicemails to jam up that inbox too.

2024-09-03 03:15:08

gn nostriches. The long weekend is coming to a close. Have a good week 🤙🏽 https://image.nostr.build/b510e43b97a97fb7c77e0bb0b7cd947575e7025e480bcf310a392e6ce3f8e57d.jpg

2024-09-02 22:17:53

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Pretty much the most important concept one can teach their kids.

2024-09-02 17:38:42

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I need to get one for sure! This year was a pressure canner, vac sealer, and a dehydrator.

2024-09-02 16:32:39

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GM! https://image.nostr.build/e951b74a5de6d7cea53f76da7c8771b0e982936c704928ab446f4ebe8f19eeeb.jpg

2024-09-01 18:28:19

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Great, so the government can start taxing people based on the number of cubic metres of CO2 they exhale.

2024-09-01 09:01:09

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I haven’t installed the software for this UPS yet and explored it, but based on the ports and snmp slot in the back, it looks like it has some advanced signalling functions.

2024-09-01 05:59:38

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You have gone deeper than I have on this. Please tell me more. It’s uncanny how close to today’s reality his words have become. I just finished the book a short time ago.

2024-09-01 05:53:10

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I have often wondered the same thing. I think it was just prophetic.

2024-09-01 05:45:03

I got a UPS to back up the power to my fiberoptic modem, router, pc, gaming console and my bitcoin node. It was pretty cool walking up to the wall outlet and yanking the power cord to the UPS and seeing everything still running off battery in less than a tenth of a 60hz cycle. I’ve got three hours of pc usage and wifi in a grid down situation. https://image.nostr.build/b4c09ff963455651f086d2e9c5bd48b92fe51985e86612c10ac6eca01624fb5f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/19e0eca64dd23ec03e7edd138a762cd2d30f510d54660fef69f0ddc0c4eb910f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/df60aaa476125553c41c1d886a80a3f0f73ec57107f8d444b9b3864a930158ed.jpg

2024-09-01 05:35:43

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Last time I checked, primal was making users set up a wallet that they own. I love the combination of Damus plus Alby.

2024-09-01 05:23:16

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I want to hear a candidate talk about ending the Bank of Canada.

2024-09-01 05:17:57

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I love Damus. @npub1xts…kk5s
Just use a script like zap zap zap or zap.army to enable zaps and get past Apple’s restrictions on sending sats to fellow plebs

2024-09-01 04:37:42

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Daily vitamin D, Zinc and Quercetin. It’ll never happen again. Prayers 🙏🏽 I hope you sleep

2024-09-01 02:49:53

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Yes based on what I learned about squash this year, that’s a great idea. I could end up with hundreds of pounds of food in the front yard. I would likely just dig a dozen 3 gallon holes and fill them with sunshine mix growing medium. Cool

2024-09-01 01:26:29

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Yes I could really up the ante if I turned the whole front yard into growing space. It’s a balance between socking away some provisions right now and keeping up the curb appeal so we can gtfo of here onto a country lot soon. And everything I build right now has to be moved. It’s a deterrent to progress.

2024-09-01 01:07:02

This year’s beets. Vac sealed and ready for the freezer. Not too bad for a 4x4 raised bed. 5 meals of sides in a pinch. I am looking forward to having more garden space but this is good while we are still in a half acre lot in town. https://image.nostr.build/b4349cc1251dccf78990620ee851ad0ae449327da16ac31391e3e71fafdbe65c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5c7e4ba19bb3c2e98cb57753679d33be2bbad3a07900afc86315c85f80bc46e4.jpg

2024-08-31 04:27:17

Little bonus tonight courtesy of energized atmospheric particles. https://image.nostr.build/e5723ff860bd66a6a367af8b724dad741857b377eee1c0e84414b85991ddfaa0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/344270ae7bf80633c9e05f65a022df5d0500ad442d7e8d59e8c5ddf5df5235c9.jpg

2024-08-31 04:11:54

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I’m talking about his hellspawn Trudeau

2024-08-31 02:56:39

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As long as Castro is dead.

2024-08-30 22:35:20

God damn I can’t zap from @Damus on iPhone since the 25th I just learned.

2024-08-30 04:44:02

Half a cup each of apple cider vinegar, sugar, water, and a tablespoon of dish soap helped empty out a portion of the population of a wasp nest in the yard we couldn’t get to. Two dishes like this absolutely filled in 5 hours. The wasps have been super aggressive as it gets colder here again already. A guy on one of our tree crews got nailed 12 times the other day. https://image.nostr.build/bf434c592603a17ead55580b416f9a9ae103429a257acf2b1c0c96744431f52c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/43d56f2b9c926e41fa7974286d945a1e1f8675385b2d5cf92f3158e9b1c6d656.jpg

2024-08-29 18:10:13

New Stihl 500i for the crew. Yep, I’ll definitely be borrowing that. https://image.nostr.build/8b2c579bfdef6676fd4355dd6a4235e540a811b29895dbbc8206a359ecc18db8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6c18997cdc28f5c257f6f442e5939e6df3350b36ef234c6b4b7dad762de4c2c0.jpg

2024-08-29 16:47:12

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GM 🤙🏽

2024-08-28 18:14:43

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As a former farm kid, just be sure to square them away on rollover risks, restraining belts, augers and PTO’s. My Dad had me all over the county on a 1950’s era Massey as soon as I was old enough, and I was fine. But I did lose a cousin to a rollover. He got thrown from the seat when he ran a tire up over some pallets and his head ended up between the roll bar and the driveway.

2024-08-26 05:09:06

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Have a good safe shift man

2024-08-23 00:33:39

I’m so glad that I’ve learned enough about bitcoin and been in it long enough to recognize this upcoming Babylon staking scheme for what it is: a mini FTX style rug in the making.

2024-08-22 02:25:54

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Hey can you tell me what the bright yellow long ones are in the middle? Thx

2024-08-22 00:24:05

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It was so awesome when ghetto blasters started coming out with two cassette decks so you could do mixtapes without any commercials or missing the beginning or end of the song. Maybe just a little dj dialogue

2024-08-21 04:30:30

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It’s pretty cool when you can see all of the crater impacts, particularly on the edge.

2024-08-21 03:10:07

I’ve got the house to myself for the week. Time to learn about FEDI. Beginning at my usual starting point lol. If anyone has any pointers, even better. I hope it’s a little easier than straight lightning node and channel setup. That took me a while to get. Hopefully it’ll take a few nights and give my liver a break from this week of batching it. 🥃 🤣
#btcsessions #fedi #fedimints https://image.nostr.build/3a23e260831ff155ea9067be8d65f1cd0b66b23add43c42337d98886f410faba.jpg

2024-08-21 02:34:11

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名誉

2024-08-21 02:08:33

Thought I’d try smoking and spicing a couple lb’s of ground beef before using it in a dish. I ended up with what I can only call “smoked beef poached eggs”. The smoke worked pretty well. https://image.nostr.build/a31f7f7d647e6e2f5f915c63d576091e5eba85bb2134c8fe6573a1d1ed3b5aff.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cf530c43ebbe52ca3ae298153608c64d4108878d3242cc46489696cb358dd2c7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/10c24b4c8cc820e18bdcbe81db8d136ed509a7570d851c3f5ed6d1b1ff2ba5d8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d20d70c230850ecda86061d8dd43c1b63d0e92d571cc191db1937f65a889b9fd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d18f7ab42380df3b4b0ac8d74cc4699555afbda3d9a97e4220dce9b5da5d0a9d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7c25cdf1261af12e0aa24c6b9887bd94e79742cefcc6288e830e0fc0319950f4.jpg

2024-08-21 02:01:18

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The edge effect at work. Nice 👍🏽

2024-08-21 01:58:44

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Damn. That’s a little slice of Heaven right there.

2024-08-21 01:30:49

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Much like life’s other traps, young men and women usually sign up before they fully understood what the purpose of the military is nowadays, and how far we have strayed from national security into nation building and raping natural resources. And of course the recruiters don’t tell them that they will have to fight tooth and nail for their veterans benefits if they get injured.

2024-08-20 14:48:42

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https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBuns9Evn1w-T2RwqMhUnTZbTTe-M-g42

2024-08-20 14:12:26

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Awesome homestead

2024-08-20 04:11:19

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Obsessively study monetary mechanics, sound money, anarchism, preparedness and agorism. And how I can escape the matrix while I still have some health and vitality left.

2024-08-20 04:05:53

gn . yes, that’s the moon believe it or not https://image.nostr.build/72d5ed47bb6e05f291c3990466733eb2a36deed61d208f16c04fcbac1c5ea86e.jpg

2024-08-19 20:41:50

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It literally wrecks everything.

2024-08-19 19:08:18

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Chanelling some Jim Cramer hahaha

2024-08-19 16:44:53

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I took the outer membrane off the last deer liver that I had and threw the pieces in the dehydrator. Ended up with a nice little Ziploc bag of liver treats. The dog absolutely loves them.

2024-08-19 16:40:47

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My wife and the kids drove through there yesterday on their way to BC. Nice Elk. He’s losing his velvet

2024-08-19 16:26:43

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Yep, this winter’s is in the shed. Trying to stay a year ahead of the game.

2024-08-19 11:22:23

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Chev. Er I mean GM

2024-08-19 10:58:29

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The original Crysis has some nice beaches

2024-08-19 03:14:50

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Story of my life.

2024-08-19 03:10:38

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gn man

2024-08-19 03:02:39

Damn fine dinner tonight. Way overpriced and cheated on carbs for once, but a man’s gotta enjoy life a bit. Batching it for 10 days. https://image.nostr.build/c2c6127c0e71e9613a003f6bc7da4c917c495622c60f8141a2a7f499466cfa04.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9bee62e7af3c46f7b2b24be4d3f4e2a9a96def4c4274e98a70d13a85074ab6e2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/75a01b51e2e31df5f79e8af404d11825cd03c47c7ed498cc3c2e2c658b72a620.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f03548e7b2a08d9b13f34db49f46d20dad9598025da5416179136f4e454c6a9a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4c2c0e41495c70cdf5a38c19d64f4956f70b11d49f4c761319eb589ed106d3ce.jpg https://image.nostr.build/975121639f47773655ac589be46b6af019d679586f5a67a8250a9938704e25e4.jpg

2024-08-19 02:05:01

If governance was capable of delivering freedom, it would have happened already. Next….
#anarchism #agorism

2024-08-18 18:49:19

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https://open.spotify.com/show/36vdJHyb7mwriWvrf2eaMz?si=7Stwoo7QSHC1qeRv3uA0RA

2024-08-18 14:36:48

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/5BvG8O6mdUEEQaiUiql3SC?si=nNbwOTAiQSOw21qpe2-ilw&t=13

2024-08-18 14:27:04

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2024-08-18 13:40:44

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We are so early

2024-08-18 13:40:00

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gn. likely gm by now.
And defund the network effects you don’t. I just witnessed a dirty YouTube link to a TikTok screen cap on my feed. I understand peoples’ desire to monetize their content, but we have to stop supporting big tech.
#grownostr

2024-08-18 13:32:48

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I laughed entirely too hard at this clip. Humans are awesome.

2024-08-18 13:30:30

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You guys really have it dialed. Wouldn’t it be cool if if a Bitcoiner stayed at your place and bought some eggs and homemade soap from the cabin by scanning a QR sticker on the carton one day?

2024-08-18 13:24:26

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With a cordless driver and a set of wood handled tree loppers you could have rid the entire street of light pollution for the two weeks it took the utility company to figure out the problem. Not speaking from experience. https://image.nostr.build/b412248b6b0bfeb6c656b13a5a5622a04f3b19931ff1656615bea33f8f12a32b.jpg

2024-08-18 06:27:04

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Not buying it. What’s the point? Is there any doubt that it would be at least this destructive? I’d say Hiroshima and Nagasaki were proof enough. And that part about the car is lame. It’s called film exposure. You seriously trying to make me believe with this TikTok bullshit that the car just appears? Ugh

2024-08-18 03:43:47

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Classic

2024-08-18 00:00:06

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Here’s my most listened song of 2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oYNIBkL3n5SRR99kfGV5Z?si=KLfF13RdRbyW2VXBsqXUjg

2024-08-17 23:43:26

https://image.nostr.build/f57f5a4d86812f7e0453de71aae6dfe31f07c5d4cd740ed42b714ed9cc6a941b.jpg

2024-08-17 23:28:30

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Good tune. I’ve been freaking out on this tune from Parkway Drive’s “Reverence” album this week:
https://open.spotify.com/track/3PBO2IOcxzIdDbpDwygejB?si=Mv0D5BfBTFCAb0ST1E9zvg&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A7oXJPu722geVtYyuwmtKjH
Love this band. #metal

2024-08-17 21:32:34

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Vast swaths of BC and Alberta are bug killed. It’s a big part of the cycle that has led to the huge fires in western Canada for the last several years. But this has been happening as a natural cycle for hundreds of thousands of years. The only difference now is we have these dumb creatures building their infrastructure in the midst of it. And putting out fires/allowing fuel loads to increase. Literally everything that regulation touches has the opposite of the intended effect.

2024-08-17 21:24:51

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This pic from last night reminds me of the mempool. Tick Tok Next Block…. https://image.nostr.build/e94df60f351fa4a5e813edbe4d44a846c3c31dccf63a0a63f57bb8223a159a5f.jpg

2024-08-17 21:20:58

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Good supply

2024-08-17 20:23:40

Finally done hand splitting this load. I’ll see if I can get another one before winter but life is about to get pretty busy with pulling the garden, preserving, big projects at work and hunting season. I likely won’t be able to move tomorrow. I’m beat. Some of the last half dozen blocks I did today were knotty as hell. https://image.nostr.build/3f55a57db14592c68ab743368ed1bef1e4ce60abbe8d959e0e7d091fa2a16072.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e1ddf9b596c5a84715149308395384e0deae19ccf782989c2ba3cca82ad72697.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1f4732bfa9f402965f286ca1376391b54e03ca4c8657d55b5aaf902f4e1c078c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cba96998338a55a56aaa6b7c98a1bd8a1f65b7a1367aa96c23beb09de51dd7d9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/95f7468ce79b758285b012d7f4ed56830773b6056b658c77fc3ab11f93a19ce1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6fd993b4a59c2475e515b6b6fb79c0674149760c035b030e2c1025cb1085d566.jpg

2024-08-17 18:45:23

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Walker for POTUS.

2024-08-17 17:51:34

If I can get to the next conference, this will be my name tag https://image.nostr.build/4448e3bbc0f90c45ec09e409317c2d213f2983020132729976de710abbf1fb4d.jpg

2024-08-17 17:45:10

Here’s a cool poll:
Where is your locus of control? ie your sense that your decisions dictate your outcomes. Is it internal? Is it external? If it’s external, how many feet away do you envision it?
Based on my current experience, I see it about 5 feet from me. When I was younger, I felt it was miles away. I felt like life was a big whiffle bat and I was the ball, just waiting for the next hit. Things are better now.

2024-08-17 17:08:58

It feels like Sunday today. Not Saturday

2024-08-17 17:07:29

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She likely said “If you take this picture we can go for ice cream and I can get out of cleaning up after your Mom.”

2024-08-17 16:44:59

Here we go again….. https://image.nostr.build/2a8d3d9df2967e7ea8d1ca1d45ee14a1f60477ca633ff836a803a441115f3b78.jpg

2024-08-17 15:55:43

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GM!

2024-08-17 15:48:21

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GM!

2024-08-17 15:47:03

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Nice. Sporting the XR series.

2024-08-17 14:53:25

I’ll never forget the sense of wonder the first time I ever got my hands on a PC and used it to connect to another computer over a phone line.
It was 1992 and my first wife and I had just moved back to BC after a short 8 month stint in Ontario. We both planned to go back to school at the local college, so my in-laws let us turn half of their detached garage into a suite and live there while we did a year of upgrading.
Shortly after we moved in, I noticed that my father in law had a PC in the home office and I was ecstatic because we never had one at home in the 80’s. I had major FOMO after only getting to mess around on a friend’s Commodore 64 a few times in grade 8 and 9 up till that point.
The computer was a 386 PC running DOS 5 and my brother in law had a copy of iD Software’s first (and pretty much the first ever widely distributed) first person shooter, Wolfenstein 3D. We played that game for days. I just thought it was really cool because it was the first time I had ever seen an actual execution of a first person shooter similar to the dungeon style game I did a hand drawn/handwritten story board and concept for in the early days of Intellivision’s Dungeons and Dragons.
So anyway, weeks went on and we pretty much just gamed. We played Wolf3D and a really basic golf game mostly.
One of the kids in my physics class told me about BBS’s and how he was getting games from other users by connecting to them over his parents’ phone line. He gave me a list of local phone numbers that worked.
I looked on the back panel of the computer we had, and sure enough there was a phone jack to a 14.4 modem. It had never been used. I asked my father in law if he had any manuals and disks that came with the computer, and he said he thought there was a box in the crawl space with all of that stuff. I went digging and ended up finding a few disks and a big fat DOS manual. To do the command line stuff I needed to do to get the modem working, I ended up reading most of it. I had to learn how to install drivers and make folders and move files instead of just gaming.
I was obsessed. After a couple of weeks of reading and staying up late learning how to interact with the machine, I finally had a dial tone.
I will never forget how thrilled I was when I dialled that first number on the piece of paper my friend had given me, heard the annoying modem handshake sound, and boom, there’s a crude menu on the screen that said Okanagan BBS, with a bunch of folder names on it.
It was like a whole new world opened up to me. Books, games, articles, and pixelated girly pics lol.
Only a matter of weeks after I got my introduction to PC connectivity, I found out that my wife had a couple affairs, including a current one with my boss (who was also my best man at our wedding) that stretched back a full year before we even got married. I moved out.
It ended up being another 4 years before life brought me to a place where I could buy my first PC. I promptly corrupted a file in Windows 95 and was down for a month while I learned what I needed to learn to reinstall the operating system. All of the techs at the local computer store were treating computing like some sort of dark art, and they were hesitant to answer my questions. I guess to them, I was a potential repair customer. I said fuck that and was up and running again and designing Quake levels and doing some other fun stuff.
Work took me in directions other than ones related to computing and it was another couple years yet before I learned how to register a domain and build my first website. And that was just prior to yet another major life implosion that left me adrift for a few years without much money and a stable place of residence.
I often wonder what I would have done with computing, web design and coding if life had been a little more stable.
I guess it’s never too late to find out. I did a few company websites for friends over the years, but never had the time to really capitalize on it as a business. I’ve intentionally avoided starting a tech support business in the intervening years because I got remarried and we had kids, and I’ve had to stick with other skills that I could capitalize on faster. I’ve got some skills and have been the resident IT guy at every company I’ve ever worked for. But I just can’t handle fixing dumb shit that people do to their systems. I just don’t get any satisfaction out of that work. My loss I guess lol.
I’m just glad I learned about the Federal Reserve system, Austrian economics, and sound money in 2003, and eventually found Bitcoin. https://image.nostr.build/2ec246ac71be0975e9ff344bb03740e61e8e20c4e261e4acdeb09fb4b175511c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/de637f8fb771992555357e82b22f8f259225b24f9e947c41f68f37905d609b05.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d7920c23bc0f264232620f702fae93293e87f8c68328fb8917bc58291d30fca2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/aefd166b55dd942663fc1405bab1a6abee3362379ee1def18e59b2d6e27034b6.jpg

2024-08-17 07:02:54

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2024-08-17 03:54:02

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Welcome!