Entrepreneurs Aren’t The Bad Guys

There are a lot of (rightful) criticisms about billionaire entrepreneurs, but I’m forever grateful to people like Bezos and the people who work for them who make our lives significantly better. Amazon gave me (a working class tech-guy) an affordable, usable, personal assistance and personal shopper. While my wife was…
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AI Photo Editing

Remember that photo from the #tripledemic where I was barely clean and happy to be breathing better? Out of curiosity, I ran it through an AI photo editor that I’ve been playing with. The prompt was something like, “attractive brunette man in flannel shirt” and it returned a fun anime…
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Capital Gains Taxes

Subject came up at work when we were talking about cryptocurrency. Garage sale money (or ebay/online sales) = NOT INCOME unless you’re selling an item that has improved in value. Anything that has appreciated is subject to capital gains tax on the profit. It’s our understanding the laws changed recently…
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Government protects you

The thing about the SEC “protecting your money [for your own good]” is PERFECT!
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Crypto Card

For months I’ve been wanting to post about about this crypto debit card, but it was a pilot program and I was under an NDA. Now that it’s live, I can introduce you to the UpholdInc Crypto Debit Card! It’s both an easy way to exit the crypto space and…
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Ignition Issue

Editors note: this was written in the future when I rediscovered the attached photo… Been having some weird issues with my white S-10. Runs fine majority of the time but just randomly misfires with no codes. I can definitely feel somethings wrong. I was driving to Ionia the other day…
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“What’s IT Like?”

Everything about this mirrors my experience, except that my users have been mostly great! And, uh, yeah… this… “I appreciate your confidence in me, but sometimes I put on different colored socks by accident, so let’s just dial it back a little.” Current Mood: 🙂happy
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Supercomputer in your pocket

It’s amazing to me that our modern smartphones have similar processing power to the supercomputers of 20 years ago, and they run ON BATTERIES for upwards of 30 hours at a time. Current Mood: 🙂grateful
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Programming Fail

Finally figured out why my workstation comes to a screeching halt on Monday morning. Turns out, I mistyped the backup command and had it set to run at every minute of the 11th hour of Sunday night. 60 backup jobs is about 59 too many! #programmingFail
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Dad Moment

The boy helping me build out a new server. Current Mood: proud
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