I began the process of editing 100 essays I read to people attending Bitcoin Brunch over the last few years. For the first time I have a pdf of all the essays together. If anyone is interested in reading them, I will be happy to share, though I will probably promote it more once I have edited the essays.

I could talk about this for days. Yachts are recreational vehicles, built with the comfort of the owner in mind. Boats are already rather expensive, but yachts generally aim for luxury. Even when a yacht is part of a cookie cutter construction methodology, and they pump out a few dozen a year, it still requires many many human labor hours to put it together. The hull and superstructure, the interior architecture, the interior design. They have to run a power production and distribution system, propulsion systems, plumbing systems, internet/satellite communications and entertainment, networking, proprietary electronics networks, the electronics. I'm forgetting so many things. Hours and hours. And "marine grade" equipment is often significantly more expensive than the land based equivalents. The whole time you have to pay for storage, and maintaining the vessel. Someone in the industry once told me "expect to spend 10% of the cost of the boat on maintenance every year," and that doesn't include the crew. Above a certain size insurance companies will require you to have a full-time captain and other crew. Do you have any specific questions? ^_^

My general interest in bitcoin is revolutionary, but acquisition of bitcoin does has a relationship to the dollar cost of some things, perhaps at least bitcoin. If the price of bitcoin dropped 80% and I knew about it I would definitely be compelled to acquire more bitcoin which would certainly be distracting...

I expect eventually we will do 0 trades of bitcoin for dollars because dollars will be worthless. I don't really understand your argument. If the bitcoin protocol breaks I don't even know that we could say it has a value of "0 dollars", and if the bitcoin protocol doesn't break, how could it possibly "go to 0" if there are psychopaths like myself happy to buy all 21 million at some stupidly low price

bitoin price is just a distraction. altcoins are also a distraction.

Another Sunday without Bitcoin Brunch. I don't know if I miss it or not.

After screwing around for a couple hours this morning I've finally got around to continuing a course I'm doing online, and maybe I'll spend several hours doing it, which I couldn't if I had to go do this meetup at 10am.

However, I still plan to start some new events this year to continue my efforts of community building.

I went to look for the snail and remembered that we hit 100k.

i definitely didn't understand the prompt.

the usa primarily uses centrally heated water. Hot water isn't necessary, but very pleasant in various circumstances, like washing dishes and hands. Thinking about it, given that the hot water has to run through pipes to get to the end user, I imagine centrally heated water must be less efficient. i wonder.

I hope everyone has a happy saturday. I plan to work on a project management course, and prepare for my weekly podcast!

Just checking in to let you all know I'm alive! Last Sunday I ended Bitcoin Brunch at #200, and also presented the last of my 100 essays!

I look forward to my first weekend off in four years.

Can we hear some of your music?!?

You don't know my politics, so you come off as a giant ass hole for shoving your bullshit into my notifications.

I wonder what he's going to say. One hopes he'll make some interesting revelation, but one fears he'll make an authoritarian pronouncement.

Where would I go?! hehe I've been keeping pretty busy lately, as I tend to. (Though watching an unjustifiable amount of video entertainment.)

i'm without a doubt a tool snob. I have no problem with harbor freight, but mostly don't want to deal with it. Icon is usually pretty nice though. Everything else I got from them was pretty subpar, and I returned a pipe wrench for being awful.

They make great tools, but I've heard mixed reviews about their warranty service due to their franchise model.

they make a great electric screwdriver, but otherwise I would probably stick to one of the much more affordable brands.

I hate buying powertools. I have mostly dewalt and milwaukee.