*This is a post I’ve just written on DSCVR which is a Reddit like forum hosted in the Internet Computer ecosystem. NFTs are incredibly popular there which has fulled a party-like atmosphere where there is zero criticism but plenty of hype, FOMO and nonsense. I have just left a post offering a bit of criticism…… Continue reading A Voice of Reason in the NFT Space
Category: Internet
Posts about the internet, separate from my Computer category.
My Thoughts on the Value of NFTs
NFT was Collin’s Dictionary’s word of the year 2021. However, the truth is nobody knows what *is really going on* or where this technology will lead. The only ones who do have an inkling are those who spend more than a modest amount of time online and they fall into a couple of camps as…… Continue reading My Thoughts on the Value of NFTs
The NFT Space is Ridiculous: NFT Euphoria Distortedly Mirrors the .com Boom of the Late 90s.
Last October was the first time I started paying attention to this whole NFT business. It has taken some time to get any type of grasp as to what is going on in the NFT space but a quote I recently read sums up the experience: “Nobody knows what is going on but it is…… Continue reading The NFT Space is Ridiculous: NFT Euphoria Distortedly Mirrors the .com Boom of the Late 90s.
Lapham’s Quarterly – Technology
For the past two years I’ve not been very good about reading my Lapham’s Quarterly in a timely manner. With kids free time is at a premium and any reading time that does appear is often devoted to books on my reading list. I am trying to more time for this periodical for the same…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly – Technology
Mateo discovered NFTs.
I discovered NFTs in September. Yes, I had heard about them in the news but hearing about something and paying attention are two different things. A light when off in my head when my son said “people like to collect things.” Let’s back up and start with crypto. I had heard about it in the…… Continue reading Mateo discovered NFTs.
Journal Entry – Current affairs, cryptocurrency, blockchain
It is 6:26 AM on Sunday November 7th, 2021. Daylight savings time ends today. I had thought I’d woken up early and was glad since I would have plenty of morning peace time but then I realized my phone clock did not match up with the kitchen clocks. So we shall see how long the…… Continue reading Journal Entry – Current affairs, cryptocurrency, blockchain
Blog and computer updates
I haven’t written as many entries as I would have liked over the past couple of months due to some big projects in regards to this blog. After many months I finally finished yesterday evening. The project was to go through each post – all 1,825 of them- and do the following: 1. update all…… Continue reading Blog and computer updates
Two Reddit posts that made me physically laugh out loud
The first was in r/jokes: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/n3x0hc/can_we_ban_yo_momma_jokes_from_this_sub_theyre/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Yo Mama’s so ugly, when she plays Mortal Combat Scorpion says “Stay over there!”u/merio67 The second I found tonight and for only the second time this year, LOL’d https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/oh83gd/just_finished_decorating_my_cake_for_my_birthday/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Someone made a cake of Andúril and the comment was: In your stomach shall it be reforged”u/DraphicGesigner And The cake…… Continue reading Two Reddit posts that made me physically laugh out loud