Call me old fashioned, but I still think 3d printing is cool
Gm 
Hold me closer, Tony Danza
I was just browsing old Daniel Krawisz blog posts last night. They are great.
The secret spot down the hill and under the bridge that only Tom and Huck know about 
Some big media account on Twitter asked people what they think the best music album ever was, front to back.
While some albums are more iconic than others, the fascinating thing about the question is how it tends to be a sign of what era someone came of age in (i.e. which decade they grew up as a teenager), and what cultural part of that era they were more in line with. Sure, some people go back and find older iconic music and appreciate it the most, the absolute greats of the past, but the more typical outcome is that someone finds music from their coming-of-age years to be what somehow sticks out.
For me it was rock in the 2000s, and my mental answer to the question of "best album?" was Meteora by Linkin Park.
While it was a very popular album and also well-remembered, it doesn't generally go down on the ageless list of greats. In other words, it's always kind of a top two or three genre item. I could argue why other more iconic albums are better, and why they "should" be my answer. For example I could go a little bit before my time, but still close enough, and say Nirvana's Nevermind was better. That would poll better.
But basically, as a product of my time, Meteora is just the one that struck the right chords at the right time when I was a teenager. It's the one that spoke to me. I would listen to it casually, and then also listen to certain songs in it before martial arts tournaments to get myself in the combat zone. Even as my musical tastes changed over time, that's the album I listened to the most of all time, and so when I hear it in the present day, I still appreciate it a ton.
The fact that they crossed genres appealed to me a lot. Their main vocalist, Bennington, struck their melodic and emotional aspect. The other vocalist, Shinoda, was their hip-hop guy, with a rougher or more practical aspect. Mr. Hahn brought an electronic aspect, and Delson brought the rock guitar aspect. Some of their stylization was anime-aligned, and I was into anime at the time. Basically whatever vibes I might be feeling as a teenager at the time, there was something in Linkin Park that spoke to it, with Meteora being among their best and which came out at the right time when I was 15. It's like Bennington would speak to my emo aspect and help me acknowledge it, while Shinoda and the others would pump me back up, and tell me to not fuck around and get back out there, and boost my confidence. Yin and Yang.
Another reason I thought of this is that here in 2023, Linkin Park released a 20th anniversary edition of Meteora, which included a couple songs like "Lost" that didn't make it into the original. It all hits a bit harder for us fans based on the fact that the lead singer, Chester Bennington, is no longer with us. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NK_JOkuSVY&ab_channel=LinkinPark
Anyway, I’m doing a series of “real thoughts” uniquely on Nostr, and this is the second one.
Conclusion: Sometimes what hits harder subjectively is worth appreciating, rather than just whatever can be argued to be the best objective answer. Somewhere on that border between "objectively good" and "came out at the right time and hit the spot for you and imprinted itself" is your answer that is worth exploring and sharing.
What's your answer?
My version of this is Ryan Adams Demolition. Not considered an all time great, but it was for me, and if you know, you know.
Just another list of words and phrases to combat newspeak:
- Concubine
- Fornication
- Shacking up
- Mistress
- Kept woman
- Common law wife
- Sodomy
- Sodomites
- Whores
- Whoremongers
- eunuchs
- transvestites
- cuckold
- sodomite
- heretic
- Harlot
Have a great day!
Starting The Odyssey for the 3rd time (never finished), inspired by nostr:npub1paxyej8f8fh57ny0fr5w2mzp9can9nkcmeu5jaerv68mhrah7t8s795ky6
Twitter post scheduled for an hour’s time but the good people of Nostr obviously get to see my new pricing model first!
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https://medium.com/@allenfarrington/modeling-bitcoin-value-with-vibes-99eca0997c5f
Thank you for quantifying wibbly wobbliness
I was a Financial Advisor skeptic until I gradually, then suddenly, turned into a bitcoin believer, thanks to some books that converted me.
Here are 6 pivotal books I read on my way to bitcoin maximalism:
The Church and the Market - A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy - Thomas E Woods
"..the monetary system is best which observes the most basic moral rules: do not steal and do not commit fraud."
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius - Joel Greenblatt
"..when Bob chooses his favorite stocks and is on pick number twenty, thirty, or eighty, he is pursuing a strategy imposed on him by the dollar size of his portfolio, legal issues, and fiduciary considerations, not because he feels his last picks are as good as his first or because he needs to own all those stocks for optimum portfolio diversification. In short, poor Bob has to come up with scores of great stock ideas, choose from a limited universe of the most widely followed stocks, buy and sell large amounts of individual stocks without affecting their share prices, and perform in a fish bowl where his returns are judged quarterly and even monthly."
The Driver - Garet Garrett
"Economists write about it as the struggle for sound money (gold), against unsound money (silver), and that leaves it where it was. Money is not a thing either true or untrue. It is merely a token of other things which are useful or enjoyable."
The Bitcoin Standard -
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"It is no wonder that eight years after its invention, blockchain technology has not yet managed to break through in a successful, ready-for-market commercial application other than the one for which it was specifically designed: Bitcoin"
The Ethics of Money Production - Guido Hülsmann
"In the old days, saving was typically done in the form of hoarding gold and silver coins. It is true that such hoards did not provide any revenue—the metal was "barren"—and that they therefore did not lend themselves to the lifestyle of rentiers. But in all other respects money hoards were a reliable and effective form of saving. Their purchasing power did not just evaporate in a few decades, and in times of economic growth they even gained some purchasing power."
Bitcoin is Venice - Allen Farmington, Sacha Meyers
"What do we stand to gain? As these parasitic, rent seeking intermediaries whittle away, should institutions want to save, be they pension funds, charities, endowments, corporate treasurers, insurance floats (or what is left after securitized DLCs are done with them), they need not engage in leveraged speculation. They need never engage in the scourge of “passive investment,” nor accidentally pool the leverage of governance that is legally and fiduciarily due to their beneficiaries into a glaring political attack vector for degenerate fiat activists to infiltrate and co-opt. They need only stack sats — something they can do with no bankers, brokers, or asset managers, and that will be commonplace among teenagers, if not even younger children."
Books That Turned Me From Financial Advisor Skeptic to Bitcoin Advocate, The Reformed Financial Advisor podcast:
I went to the funeral today of a good man who died well.
The bitcoin families I have met with, where the couple is aligned, are usually adopting some version of traditional marriage roles. He’s orange pilled. She’s mildly into it, but mostly trusts her husband to be a good steward of their money.
This bitcoiner right here 🙋 will be choosing a different name for his parish center
http://theleaven.org/overland-park-parish-breaks-ground-on-fiat-center/
#bitcoin #grownostr
They really didn’t read the room did they?
Hello to all my nostr faithful.
Our waitress unprompted brought out multiple backup paper straws for my kids “in case they get too soggy” recently
Once in a century or so, a group conspires to overtake one. Trump and the republicans. To a lesser extent the Mises Caucus and libertarians.