Just like their digital counterpart, wooden bitcoin are not backed by any real world assets and their value is therefore largely speculative.
However, unlike their digital counterpart, in the event of a worldwide economic collapse, wooden bitcoin will still maintain some real world value as kindling for a cookfire.
I use different browsers for varying reasons. By default, the Brave browser shows full page ads on the home screen. Even though they pretty much universally don’o’t interest me, I don’t begrudge Brave the ads since they help pay for the company’s ongoing operating costs. And, according to Brave, they don’t trade in my personal data so I see little reason to turn them off.
Plus, some of the ads are downright entertaining. For example, a few months ago, this was the background image from an ad for Karate.com.
I have no idea what this is supposed to be about, but in my mind, the smirking bald guy on the left is clearly thinking “Daniel-san, you’ve watched ‘The Karate Kid’ waaaay too many times.”
And then a few moments later, the guy in the white gi is curled up on the floor, having just had his butt kicked.
This is the bird feeder in the front yard.
The squirrels won this round.
Today, I learned there is a YouTube channel for xkcd’s “What If” scenarios?
Also, I think we finally have an explanation for the events in the Space: 1999 episode, “Breakaway” in which a series of explosions blow the Moon into deep space.
Waking before the alarm means time for quiet contemplation before the day gets started.
It also means the house is chilly because the furnace hasn’t started yet! 🤪
We’ve had a female pileated visiting our yard the past several years. She’s not formally introduced herself, so we’ve taken to calling her Winona. There’s a male we call Woodrow, but we’ve not seen him lately.
This is an amazing story about an even more amazing prank. To be honest, I’m not quite sure how I stumbled across it. One of those “search for topic A and get sidetracked onto topic B” kind of deals.
So, the super short version is, Mehran’s Steak House is this super-amazing restaurant on New York’s Upper East Side. Except it isn’t. But then, for one night, it was.
Rather than me mangling it, go read the full story on SubStack.
I’d run across mention that Howard the Duck makes an appearance in the “Avengers Assemble” scene in Endgame. Tonight, I finally tracked it down to see for myself.
He’s visible for just a second, right after The Wasp makes her appearance and immediately before the camera cuts to Thor. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bSmAsswg0&t=92s
And then, since I was already headed down the rabbit hole, I went and watched the movie. Lea Thompson was as cute as I remember, but … yeah, this wasn’t one of Marvel’s best movies.
I’m not saying I forgot about these, but …. oh yeah, I have BatMan stamps.
That’ll surprise folks when I send out Christmas cards.
Spotted this ad recently and was left scratching my head. I have no idea what a “Sunsquabi Doomflamingo” is, but all I can think of is that it must be some sort of Flamingo Goth Band.
Based on a Google Search, it seems this was a music event and those are the names of two bands.
No doubt they’re a lovely couple of bands, but I can’t get rid of the “Goth Flamigno” mental image.
Photo Credit: Cover image generated by Google’s Gemini in response to the prompt “Goth Flamingos.” Here’s the un-cropped image.
