Después de una buena noche de sueño, mi cabeza se siente mucho mejor (aunque no del todo como debería). Creo que dos de las vértebras de mi cuello se han trabado, como sucede a veces. Tendré que programar una cita con el fisioterapeuta que veo para solucionarlo, pero no puedo permitírmelo a menos que gane $32.50 adicionales este mes. Oh, bueno, supongo que será mejor que me ponga a trabajar... Al menos tengo los $2.00 que necesito para recargar mi cuenta bancaria y pagar mis…
Right. It's time for a quick breakfast of muesli (oats, raisins, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds) with yogurt before I start the daily grind, working on people's Websites.
I kept wondering why the #BCH 💰 I transferred earlier this morning wasn't showing up in my wallet, despite receiving a notification that it had arrived. Then I realised that I hadn't connected my phone to the WiFi. D'oh! 🤦🏻♂️ As soon as I connected, the update reflected and I sold it for fiat, which is now on its way to my bank account and should arrive within three days (hopefully less).
Greetings, fellow Noisers. I had a look at MyLot earlier this morning, to see if it was worth signing up. Having looked through the "FAQ" pages (because there's no "About" page or it's difficult to find, a worrying sign), I see a number of problems with it: 1. It pays out in fiat (USD) to PayPal, a company/service with which I am not happy (especially because linking my personal account to an unknown third party will reveal my identity). Plus, PayPal charges me $2.00 as a…
Half the day has gone by already. I'm still trying to sort out my finances, get my money out of Paypal and find an alternate online payment system for clients who pay in fiat. I thought that the Request Network might be a viable option, so went to investigate. However, on reading the "Getting Started" documentation, I see that it runs on Ethereum. Well, I'm not going that route, then. Fookadoodle-doo, but does everything have to be so complicated and difficult?…
I got into cryptocurrencies because I was looking for a way to solve my financial problems. However, all it has done is compound them or given me new ones. Supposedly, this is progress, but I have my doubts. Have I earned interest on what I staked? Certainly. Have I earned it in passive income? Yes, but not in amounts large enough to justify the time I've spent (and continue to spend) on making passive income.
I've claimed my GoodDollars (G$) for the day. It's still a long time until I've reached the point where I'm claiming 5 700+ a day. I don't know if I'll get there, but I'm going to do my best. Now, though, it is time to get back to work to keep my clients happy (and, hopefully, get paid). 508.48 G$ = ~0.0893 USDC, according to voltage.finance . It's barely anything, but it's not absolutely nothing, either. Still a long way from 1.00 USDC, though ...
Having looked at the BCH chart, it is brutal (almost at ATL, ~$10.00 below where it is now). I don't know how to mine BCH (or if it's viable to do so), but I suggest that if ever there was/is an opportune time to mine or buy, it is now, while the market is bearish. Image: Screenshot from CMC
Here's a sentence. Here's another one of them, but unrelated to the first. This is how people post random thoughts on Noise.
> "BTW, am I going to be nut again?" Source: https://noise.cash/post/lgkpzk92 #whatTheHeck (#wth) do you mean by that, exactly? For all I know, you already are a nut. If it helps, William Shakespeare once wrote, "I could be bounded in a nutshell, if it weren't that I had bad dreams". IDK if that helps. #nut #shakespeare #literature
Today looks like another flipping slow day on Noise, definitely not a good one for trying to earn any BCH. Mining Raptoreum (RTM) doesn't seem to be going well, either, even though I am just 3.4 RTM away from a payout. That's a shame, really, but at least I've got work to do that should keep me off the site and focused for a few days while I wait for the rest of my money to become available.
Debugger: Something that helps to remove bugs from programs. Programmer: Something that puts bugs into programs. #joke #sadbuttrue
TIL: A "white elephant" is some sort of rare/precious gift or item that is very expensive to maintain (in contrast to its usefulness), to the point of causing the receiver financial ruin. Source: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/white-elephant The term originates from Southeast Asia, including Burma and Siam (now Thailand), where courtiers who were not in favour were given literal white elephants to maintain. Since white elephants were sacred, they could not be put to work,…
#whatTheHeck (#wth) is with people who post pictures of minors on the Web?! Do you not know that it's full of creeps? If you do that, you get an insta-block from me. Yikes on a trike, people! What good parents, aunts and uncles you are ...
"Put some photos of the cattery in the gallery; people want to see it", they said. "Sure, fine, whatever. Please send me the photos", I said. Thirty-two cattery pictures later, the galley is rather cat-heavy. It's a cattery and kennels; we need more dog pictures, too, to balance it out. (I think my facial expression is a bit like the dog's, now.)
I have become so good at trolling people that I can literally do it without even trying, without making any effort to. It's the funniest thing I've done all week: Ask people to do some introspection, retreat to deal with problems in my life and come back to find they've been losing their shit while I remained blissfully unaware. Some of them, in their haste to block me, forgot that they already had, unblocked me and then went into a frothy that they couldn't block me again…
#whatTheHeck, fellow members of this channel? I feel like this has become my personal echo chamber, since I seem to be the only one here who consistently finds and shares the weirdness posted on Noise. Here's another one, with which I don't even know where to begin (other than the "Block" button to save myself future confusion): https://noise.cash/post/l76ggggw #wth #BenHur
"Your brain constructs your reality based on that to which you pay attention. When you learn to direct and manage your focus, you have the power to improve nearly every aspect of your life." — Ruben Chavez; Author of "Think, Grow, Prosper"
If I'm not upsetting as many people as I am delighting by telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (so help me, FSM), I'm probably going soft and losing my touch.
Another day, another workload with its set of challenges. It doesn't help that I didn't get much sleep this morning, working late for North Americans and the dogs started barking early. There's nothing I can do about that now; I just have to carry on and manifest some sort of commitment and determination for the day.
Frigging Ethereum transaction costs ... #alphabear2 #ab2
The true self of man is hidden in a central core of stillness, a central vacuum of silence. This core, this vacuum, occupies only a pinpoint in dimension(s). All around it, there is a ring of desires and thoughts constituting the imagined self, the ego. This ring is constantly bustling and fermenting with fresh thoughts, constantly changing with fresh desires. It is alternately bubbling with joy or heaving with grief. Whereas the centre is forever at rest, the wide ring…
Well, I decided to join MyLot today, despite my reservations. I figured that any way I can maximise my passive income stream(s), I must take. The site wouldn't let me use special characters or uppercase for my username, so I used one of my aliases to create a fake profile. Here's the link: https://www.mylot.com/pbashton Right. That's enough time spent on the Web until lunch time. I must get on with work. I wish you all a pleasant day and many tips.
Here's a thing I want to do: Learn ML and Image Recognition/OpenCV development and build a Genitals Pic Detector. I'll trawl through antisocial media and online dating sites, looking for pictures thereof, to train it (not a task I anticipate doing, but I've got to feed it data if I want it to work) and make it available as a service.
It looks like BCH is bouncing back and heading upwards, but who knows what time will bring. Last week, it looked like it was on the up again as well, but then it dipped. Here's hoping we see a recovery (instead of another false start or sideways movement).
I tried mining Ravencoin (RVN) on my old laptop, but it looks like the graphics card (which only supports nVidia CUDA v9) is too old to support the KawPOW miner and that algo in z-enemy. I don't think I'll have any success with T-Rex. Since I've got ~258 Raptoreum (RTM), which wasn't profitable to mine (and mining anything more going forward isn't going to be), I'm going to lay off mining until I can afford a laptop with a Ryzen 9 CPU. Besides, there's supposed to be a…
I got a decent amount of work done this afternoon, despite the killer heat, so I'm feeling somewhat pleased with myself about that. I took advantage of the scheduled power cut to do things that didn't need electricity: Housework, lunch and some reading. Now that it is back on, I should get back to work. What I really feel like doing, though, is taking a nap and waiting until the heat has gone out of the day. February might be the last month of Summer in the Southern…
Since signing up on MyLot and commenting, I've made a fraction of a cent. I thought Noise Cash tips that pay less than a cent were meager and stingy, but that sight takes it to another level, paying a tenth as much. I suspect whomever it was who wrote a comment to me stating that people leave here in the hope of making more there probably didn't do any research.
PayPal has only now just made available to me the money my client payed a week ago. It's still going to take another three days for my bank to process the transaction. If that had been crypto going through luno, it would have taken hours to a day at most.
I made a whole six cents ($0.06) on MyLot last night. On the other hand, I made eighty-five cents ($0.85) on Noise, more than 10x. Better earnings on MyLot, my left foot.
Putting the finishing touches on my client's Website has taken a lot longer than I expected (2x-3x as long as I estimated), but the site is finally taking shape and looking how I want it to. The attached images are some screenshots of the gallery (overview and then an individual page that's a subsection thereof)
Uh, why is my second screen not registering on my laptop? ^Checks the connections and wiggles the cables a bit.^ Oh, that's better ... I really should replace the damn thing or glue the power cable in place.
I've been so busy with work today that I almost forgot to claim my GoodDollars. I contemplated setting an alarm to remind me, but decided against it as ridiculous that I'd forget to grab free crypto. I'm starting to think that it's not such a bad idea, after all ...
#whatTheHeck is going on with the world's climate, geography and plate tectonics? A Briyani State, a giant crack in Kenya, a typhoon off the coast of South Africa and now Indo-Asia is in the tropics ... Source: https://noise.cash/post/lw838rk4
In lieu of wisdom, predictive text: Dick is a viable exercise for letting us know there is no good company. This is what I got in response to a challenge to complete the sentence "Dick is ..." Another fun one is "Would you let me put ...?"
It turns out that I somehow have an extra day in my week. Today is Friday, not Saturday, so no exercising pooches in the rain for me. That suits me fine, gives me time to wrap up a project that's looking really slick and get it to my customer.
Some misogynistic dudebro fool just challenged me to donate 98% of my next paycheck to someone's Patreon, which I accepted, since he's promised to match my contribution. Plus, the woman in question writes well and I think she deserves compensation for it (which she's not getting on at least one of the platforms on which she posts). What he doesn't realise is that I'm not going to take what comes in and send it straight away. Instead, I'm going to take anything left over from…
Not paying attention to what I was doing because I was thinking about submitting an application for a copyediting position for/with my local newspaper, I started typing my phone's pin into the microwave keypad. My sandwich would have been a smoldering wreck if it hadn't beeped at me in error. Fortunately, there are only sixty minutes in an hour. 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
If you can't hit the dudebros in their entitlement, Patriarchy, privilege or pride, hit them in their wallets.
Just one more gallery page to complete and the changes to my client's website are ready to be uploaded. Then I can move on to the project for the creepy German dude. Woot!
Is it me, or has Noise undergone a (much-needed) theme change since last I was on? It's looking much better, certainly, but still behind the, erm, curve, with it's rounded borders (which I last saw on a site in 2019). Anyway, I've just finished backing up my client's Website. I'm not going to push the changes up until I've eaten, just in case there's a problem, but I've checked everything and it all seems to be working beautifully. This is fantastic; I'll be glad to close…
Yesterday, we had one loaf of bread. This afternoon, three. Tonight, we have four loaves, all because my housemates can't communicate properly. #whatTheHeck? #wth #firstworldproblems
"Everything in your life should have purpose. The possessions you own, the people with whom you share space and your daily actions should all have intentional efforts behind them." — Sylvester McNutt III
At the rate at which I block the accounts of people who can't spell nor punctuate, I might have to learn Tagalog just so I have something to read on Noise (other than the trials and tribulations of a certain Mr. @cryptorah and his family).
It's been raining all day (and is likely to carry on over the weekend). Having been sleeping most of the day, some of us got the zoomies.
The gallery changes for my client's Website are now live, but I see that I have to shrink the images for the mobile version. Le sigh. I thought I'd be finished and sending a request for payment by now. As it is, I quoted them for about a third of what the work ended up being worth. Oh, well, I guess I'll not make that mistake again ...
The more time I spend on Fratlife's Website, the more I realise the balance in "kinky Facebook" is biased towards the "Facebook" side of it (except that FB deplatforms abusers, Neo-Nazis and sexual predators).
I've just redesigned and updated my banner, to make it look a little sleeker/more professional. It will appear on my business Website (which is currently in development).
I've been setting up Google Analytics for my client's IGG campaign. Even with following the instructions in the documentation provided by both IGG and Google, it's damn confusing. It took me an hour and at least two attempts to get right. Surely there are better and simpler ways of doing things?
Housemate 1: What are your plans for the afternoon? Housemate 2: I don't have any. I'll see how it goes. Me: I need to get some code to a client. It'll take me about an hour, then I'll mow the lawn. Housemate 2 [After about an hour, as I'm putting on my shoes]: Starts mowing the lawn. IDK why we even bother to discuss these things, since he just takes over every time someone sets out to do something. As much as I appreciate not having to do the lawn, it's annoying to gear…
"Would leveraging goats across all platforms be as feasible a concept as leveraging synergies across all platforms, or would it be a red-tape nightmare, stuck in development, new technologies, or process and implementation? Would people show up for training?" Source: https://everything2.com/title/leverage+goats+across+all+platforms
So much technology to learn, so little time and money. If the desire alone was sufficient, I'd be an expert in so many things.
You can't change people who're not interested in changing, no matter how hard you try. Change has to come from within.
After all these years, I should have learned not to operate technology while tired, because I do stupid things. But no, I still repeat the same mistakes. Tonight's episode: Logging out of noise instead of closing my browser, then promptly forgetting my password. 🤦🏻♂️ On that note, I'm going to bed.
Right. I've invoiced my client for the gallery pages. Now to carry on with my own Website and add the German's project ... Hopefully, I'll get paid before the end of the week, because I need that money in order to purchase a domain on which to host it. I wanted to go the .crypto route, but I don't know what my server options are with Unstoppable Domains. Seeing as I haven't used all the domain slots available to me with my current provider (and they're cheaper than UD), it…
The more I interact with people, the less I understand them.
I'm one quarter of the way to my next payout from Noise, which means I'm one eighth of the way to purchasing a ".crypto' domain from Unstoppable Domains. Woot! 🤓 If I continue at this rate, I should have about $20 in #BCH by the end of the month. I think that'll do just fine, since it might take me that long to finish building my Website with the German project on it. How long it'll take me to learn Blockchain and Web 3.0 technologies, I don't know. Anyway, I have more…
Things I got done today: 1. Download and burn live DVDs for Debian 7 (Wheezy) and Lubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus 2. Install Lubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus (x86_64) on my old laptop. (It's not compatible with later versions.) 3. Install the Apache 2 HTTPd server and get it running on port 82 4. Install the NginX HTTPd server, with PHP-FPM and Lua, and get it running on port 81 5. Check my email 6. Get the contact details of a whole bunch of recruitment agencies and send out my CV…
Last night was another restless, sleepless night for me, with no relief nor respite. Yet again, I was bothered by mosquitos. I'm going to bail into bed early tonight, in the hope of getting a good night's sleep and an early start tomorrow. Au revoir, fellow noise-makers. Snark out!
Things I got done today: 1. Reinstalled Lubuntu on my laptop and upgraded it to 18.04, because trying to get VeraCrypt on 16.04 messed it up due to an incompatible version of libc6. 2. Set up Apache2 yet again 3. Got Mono Develop and Unity installed. (They are not available by default; I had to add source lists and install the versions for 16.04.) 4. Played a lot of AlphaBear 2 while waiting for software to download, install and/or compile. 5. Phoned my boss and managed to…
FreeOS (which is built on top of the Proton network, IIRC) has announced that the Airdrop Claim start date is set for the fourteenth (14th) of February and will end on the seventh (7th) of August. If I understand correctly, participants can each claim once per week during that time. Here's the Medium article for details: https://medium.com/freedao/freeos-airclaim-launch-date-55450caf901f #freeos #proton #airdrop
"If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence — that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime. By closing the eyes and slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and…
I went to the bank today to deposit some cash from my weekend job, but their systems were offline. Instead, I went and bought some needles and thread so I can repair the holes in my jeans.
"After seeing the success of a friend, if there is violence without pride, then understand that you are a small person." #whattheheck (#wth) does any of that mean? Source: https://noise.cash/post/ln970zz8 I swear that sometimes people just use a random sentence generator and post whatever it spits out.
I've been trying to set aside time to write and edit a post titled "John the Revelator and his Bad Jangle of Dirty Silver", but it's just not happening. My time seems to be consumed by work (specifically, setting up a development environment), which is taking longer than it should.
Last night, an unscheduled and unanticipated power outage started at about 18:30 (supper time). It carried on until somewhere between 11:00 and 11:30 this morning. Since I couldn't use electricity during that time, I took the opportunity to mend a hole in my jeans (there are still four more to repair), change my sheets and give myself a haircut. Now, though, I must get back to work finishing the German's project/Website. So much to do, so little time in which to do it ...
The problem with eating a chili whole is that, at some point, one is going to end up with a chili hole.
About an hour ago, someone from my local newspaper phoned me. She'd reviewed my application in response to their advertisement for an editor. I have a job interview on Monday afternoon. Woot! I don't think it's going to be a high-powered job (but that's fine; I don't necessarily want one) or high-paying, but it's a paying gig and could be the position that starts me off on my writing career, which I've been trying to bring about for a while. I can always supplement it with…
I finally watched the episode of The Witcher where Yennefer undergoes her metamorphosis (S01E03/4). Is it just me, or does Anya Chalotra remind anyone else of Romy Rain in that ballroom scene? "Hello Boys" or what, right?
I really love the Noise community; so full of encouragement, positivity and la joie de vivre. If I post here, I get kindness and encouragement in response. If I post to FB or other social media sites, I get either ignored or some asshat comes along, uninvited, to piss on my parade.
~33% of the way to my next payout from Noise, ~16% of the way to an Unstoppable Domain on which I host an invitation-only blockchain-backed Web 3.0 site for my friends in the kink community, if I manage to raise the funds to develop it. (I've yet to work out exactly how much I require.)
Watching people react to Henry Cavill is one of the funniest things ever, especially since he seems largely oblivious to the effect he has.
"The busker hoped that the people passing by would throw money, but they threw tomatoes instead, so he exchanged his hat for a juicer. He was surprised that his immense laziness was inspirational to others. It didn't make sense unless you had the power to eat colors." Now, here's the question: Is this something I saw posted on Noise, or did I pull it from a random sentence generator?
The elephant didn't want to talk about the person in the room.
If I spent as much time sleeping as I do feeling tired, I'd probably spend half my day in bed. Ah, the joys of insomnia and irregular sleep cycles.
That moment when I check out someone's profile, see that they mostly post about food and think, "Damn, woman, that food looks delicious, but you look even tastier ..." #hungryLiketheWolf
"An undisciplined mind is wild. A disciplined mind is wholesome and it brings happiness." — Siddhārtha Gautama, the Buddha #buddha #happiness #discipline
Just another $2.25 worth of FARM on Pub0x and I can withdraw it out to my MetaMask wallet and exchange what I have for ETH. Of course, it will probably be wiser to wait until I have a total of $10.00 in FARM before I do that. However, I think it will take a while to get there, even if I didn't have writer's block over a particular piece I'm struggling to get finished. Now, though, it's time for a quick lunch break (more uninspiring PB & J sandwiches) before I get back to…
This morning (2022-02-13), my balance in PRE was sitting at just under 166. Progress is slow, since I don't perform thirty searches a day. Still, it is better than not getting paid for them.
Another day, another claim from Good Dollar. Today, I got approximately fifty-one (~51 G$) of them, which brings my total up to just under one thousand of them (~980 G$/~0.001 FUSE/~0.18 USDC). Here's hoping that's the new baseline on which my daily percentage increase is based. It's still going to take a long time to reach 5 600 of them, but it's not bad for simply signing in and clicking a button once a day. https://wallet.gooddollar.org/?inviteCode=ekdLE7tTXM #goodDollar…
Mientras escribo esto, estoy en el cuarenta y seis por ciento (~46 %) del mes de febrero y en el cuarenta y seis por ciento (~40 %) para recibir mi próximo pago de Noise. Si puedo ganar lo suficiente para superar el ligero retraso, las posibilidades de obtener ese pago a fin de mes son buenas. Desafortunadamente, 2022 no es un año bisiesto.
It looks like I've picked up ten new followers since last I checked. This is awesome and brings my total up to seventy-five (75). Woot! Thank you, fellow Noisers, for your ongoing support.
Is anybody interested in an extensive month-to-month Computer Science (CS) and Electrical Engineering (EE) course, for ~$25 a month? I'm thinking of setting up one on Patreon/BMC, but that depends on if I get enough support to fund it, because I need to earn an income while I'm teaching myself and preparing the material. https://www.mylot.com/post/3496958/those-who-cant-do-teach
The problem with looking at the Website of a newspaper publisher for information about the company prior to my interview is that the only thing on their site is news articles.
I've got to love the Internet, despite all the complications it adds to my life. I can just as easily flirt shamelessly with someone in the Philippines as I can someone in Canada, Malta, Scotland or the USA (without any reasonable/realistic expectation of meeting my online paramours).
Trying to explain crypto to the Boomer generation is a difficult (and mostly futile) task at best. Trying to do so one hour before the witching hour is downright foolish.
Ah, Microsloth Windoze, how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways ...
Hello, fellow Noise-makers. Just a quick reminder that the FreeOS airdrop/airclaim started today and runs until the seventh of August (2022-08-07). In order to claim, you need a Proton wallet with some USDC in it. It also supports BCH, so you can transfer your BCH to it and exchange it to USDC through Alcor.exchange. https://app.freeos.io/ | https://proton.alcor.exchange/
I think I've spent too much time on Fratlife recently. I keep seeing Valentine's Day balloons and thinking of breasts. I blame it on my association with well-endowed women friends ... #valentinesday #balloons #chesticles
As I type this, I have just come home from a job interview. I don't think it went well, but then I always think that about job interviews. I thought the company was looking for an editor (as advertised), but they were actually looking for a journalist. Right off the bat, that threw me, so my preparation (to the extent I did any) likely didn't stand me in good stead. Anyway, we'll see how it goes, once my nerves calm down. Worst case scenario, I don't get the job and I have…
#whattheheck ?! "That's no plane." It's not Superman, either. #wth #superman #boat #captcha
Right now, I would like one fish biscuit and a bottle of chips.
Another day, another 51G$ claimed, bringing my balance up to over 1 000 G$ (~0.175 USDC). For some reason, I had difficulty accessing the site on my phone tonight, but managed with Brave. I've also used Voltage.finance to swap that amount for USDC and put it into MetaMask. It's not much, but I thought it best to try with a small amount first, to confirm that the process works. Anybody who uses my invite link/code to sign up will receive an extra 50 G$ bonus in addition to…
Some days I envy Geralt of Rivea: Slay monsters, bed beautiful women, give no fucks about anything (or at least give that appearance). I am grumpy, sad, tired and going to bed. Au revoir, fellow Noisers.
Just 1.5 PRE to go and I will have 169. Yeah, I know, stupid and puerile old joke, but that's more than I've received on Valentine's day for a while.
Another hot afternoon, another weekly battle with the lawnmower and its overheating, temperamental capacitor. As I type this, it's sitting in the shade (hopefully cooling down), since it refuses to work at the moment. I've managed to get a third of the back lawn cut and will not be charmed if I am unable to continue to do so in the next five to ten minutes. I don't want to spend the whole of tomorrow finishing the job; I've got constructive work to do and I can't afford to…
I have just successfully unstaked my Ontology (ONT), exchanged it for Solana (SOL) and begun the process of staking it for the next year (twelve months). Whatever's there at the end of the year will get converted to USDC, put through Luno and sent to the Patreon account of a writer who's currently not getting rewarded for her efforts on a platform on which a misogynistic dudebro idiot challenged me to donate 98% of my monthly salary to her. In the mean time, I best start…
Hello, Anxiety, my old friend You've come to fuck my life again. As the panic attacks are in-creeping, Woke me with a start When I was sleeping. And the words of Richard Siken Are scriven in my brain: "You will be alone always And then you will die." #richardSiken #anxiety #litany
I've just had a look at the one year, six months and three months charts for Cosmos (ATOM). They are just awash with red. When I started unstaking, nearly a month ago, what I had was worth about $400. However, it's now worth about $230. That's an almost 50% drop. This is so not cool, since I need that money, but now is not a good time to pull out. (It never is, right ladies?) Crap on a stick!
Is "killing undead hordes" an oxymoron? If so, what does that imply about Godel's incompleteness theorem? TBH, I've not really considered the existential/mathematical/philosophical ramifications of virtually pumping hot lead into paranormal pixilations in an effort to quell my rage-induced states after a frustrating day or five. As far as I have thought about it, taking my frustrations out in such a manner provides some level of emotional validation and is probably healthier…
I have many fatal flaws. Being unsuitable for life under Capitalism and wanting what I cannot have (yet still pursuing it while being acutely aware of how futile it is to do so) are but two of them. For all the privilege cards I carry, being a mediocre white man is not an easy role to play.
Right. Both the front and back lawns are now mowed. My laundry is washed and dried. Paths have been swept. About five thousand steps have been taken and some more Sweatcoin earned. A storm is incoming and I have a small, trembling dog pawing at my legs. The verge/pavement still needs to be trimmed, but that can wait until tomorrow morning, since I'm not going to do that during a thunderstorm. ⛈⚡ Besides, I can't spend too much time on things that waste it and don't earn me…
Men fear that we will lose the people that we love, because we forget or deny one simple truth: In the end, we will lose everything, no matter how much we fight and struggle to hold on, because nothing ever really was ours and nor will it ever be. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Image: Photo by cottonbro from/on Pexels
Yesterday, I met a bloke. We chatted a bit, about nothing in particular. Straight off the bat, he wanted to be friends. I'm not sure how I feel about that; seems a little too forward for me. He seems decent enough and I need all the friends I can get, but I don't yet know him well enough to decide if he's a safe person to let into my circle (especially since my circle contains people who're far from the madding crowd and I feel that I have a responsibility to vet/vouch for…
I always seem to be working like a mad thing but falling significantly short. I need to catch a break, but it never seems to come. I honestly don't know what to do. It seems like the only thing I can do is work harder for longer, but that's not going to be enough. To add yet more insult to many existing injuries, my parents' business has failed, they're $2 660 in debt and have nobody to turn to but me (since, for some reason I can't discern, I've always been the Great White…
For a while, I've been struggling to figure out why, despite working so incredibly hard for such long hours, I wasn't making enough money to see me through to the end of the month. Tonight, I sat down and did some calculating (all while experiencing a raging headache, no less). Starting with how much I need to make each month and then working back to how much I need to charge per day and per hour, it turns out that I was charging half of what I should have. D'oh! I feel like…
"There are nowadays professors of Philosophy, but not Philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess, because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle [or profound] thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to love wisdom is to live according to its dictates; a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust [in something more than oneself]. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically." —…
Push the button, don't push the button. Change the channel, change the station! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdDwxdqLyGg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHb-zD09qLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrSpuWKlLCg
Presearch have changed their interface so that clicking on the amount of PRE one has no longer gives one direct access to the page showing how many searches one has performed and how much has been earned per search (https://presearch.org/account/tokens/rewards?page=1). Instead, it now shows a dialog with a summary of earnings (as per the image).
"It isn't easy being snarky, smug, condescending, arrogant, narcissistic, and totally oblivious to reality, but somebody's gotta do it." — Evil Count Erudite on Twitter https://twitter.com/FrozenPeas23 #twitter #snark #oblivious #reality
^In Jack Nicholson's Voice:^ Another day, another ~50 G$ (~$0.01). #gooddollar #basicIncome #ubi
Given that Pub0x has recently added another shitcoin ($STA) on another crappy network (Fantom, which supports CBDCs), I'm thinking it's time to move back to Read Cash. I don't want anything to do with those projects. Being bearish about Ethereum and ERC20s is one thing, but this is a whole other kettle of fish. #pub0x #ethereum #erc20 #fantom #read.cash
Another day at the kennels, another round of silly and sweet pooches, another $10 deposited into my bank account (now that the ATM is working again). The first two photos are of Lulu and Teddy, who belong to my bosses' daughter. The third photo is of Peanut and Raisin (who move about at speed, hence the blurriness). The JR in the fourth photo has very pretty eyes, although the photo doesn't do them justice. The JR in the last picture was quite small, but very sweet.
Does anyone know of a good exchange where I can either buy BAN or exchange it for something else, like NANO or BCH?
It's official: Publish0x is dropping support for tipping in shtty ERC20s in preference for ... yet another shtcoin called Statera ($STA), this time on the Fantom (FTM) network, which supports CBDCs. Well, I'm having no part in that, so will no longer be publishing content there. Read Cash, here I come (again) ...
Grandparents not only bring food, but are it, apparently. #wth? I thought cannibalism was illegal (or at least taboo) in most parts of the world. Source: https://noise.cash/post/l85vz24k
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." — Deepak Chopra Equanimity is about finding a way to be alright, even when nothing else is, allowing us to experience peace in stressful situations. Meditation gives us the tools to reach this state of balance. When we practice detachment, we gain perspective. Perspective gives us distance and allows us to act with intention rather than react out of impulse — a crucial skill for all times, especially trying…
My German client's English is not great (and my German is non-existent). He doesn't understand my explanation. I do not know how to rephrase it. All that I can think is "cheese sticks to you, mate", which isn't helpful. #cheese #German #mistranslated
Today in senseless conversations: I must stop spending time on things that make me some (but barely any) money in order to spend more time on things that earn me none. Apparently, that's how I'm going to solve my financial troubles. This comes from a man whose business has folded, nog al. Apparently, wasting time on social media sites that don't pay me for my content and efforts is part of that. I build Websites. It's how I make my money. I have straight up been told that…
In two days, I have collected 21 BAN from faucets. It's definitely not a lot, but since all I have to do is enter my BAN address, solve a CAPTCHA and click a button for each, it's pretty easy passive income. It's also a faster way of earning BAN than going the F@H route.
"Tucker Carlson looks like a dog trying to figure out how a bicycle works." No; I have no idea what that's about, but I like it, as descriptions go.
Another day, another unscheduled power outage (this one going on for fourteen hours and counting). Yet again, my window for working and earning money is restricted by circumstances beyond my control. This is frustrating.
How do you live on $26.50 a month (>$1 a day)? This article originally appeared in the Pietermaritzburg Sun (one of my local newspapers) on 2022-02-18. It caught my attention since, for a time, I was living off that amount and spending $3.30 to get to work and back. I have changed the figures to dollar amounts in order to make it easier for a wider audience to comprehend the amounts. If you've never lived on a diet consisting mainly of bread, peanut butter, yogurt and…
In about two hours, it will be time for me to claim my daily Good Dollars (G$) and then some Banano (BAN) from a few to several faucets. First, though, a quick lunch, American style: PB&J sandwiches #banano #lunch #cryptofaucet
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." — Joseph Joubert Found in the IFLScience group on FB #argument #discussion #progress #iflscience #quote
Studying politics is apparently a bit like sitting at a table and eating butter. #wth does that mean? https://noise.cash/post/lvqxgrg6
I would like to get to a point in my life where I'm not almost constantly hungry, where I actually earn enough money to keep myself not just adequately fed, but well fed. Working on a nearly empty stomach is horrible. On that bombshell, I best get back to work to ensure I have money for food next month. #hunger #food #money #income
"Hi friends. Here's a [random] photo." How is this a post worthy of tipping? How are you not a block-worthy idiot? #wth?!
The daily G$ has been claimed (although the amount is dwindling again), as has the daily Banano (BAN). Today has been quiet and there's no rest for the wicked, so I'm going back to the big pile of work I have to do this coming week. That is (probably) all for now. Snark out!
Mmm, cock and testicle fritters, how appetising ... #wth is with some people's cooking? Source: https://noise.cash/post/1rg3gwjj
Why is the last 10% of a project always the hardest part to complete? I literally have a few lines of code to add and check before I can close off the issue list for a Website and bill my customer, yet here I am, faffing around online.
There's a certain type of lazy, misogynistic a**ehat who refers to his significant other as "the wife" or "wifey", but never by name (in much the same way as people refer to "the help"). It's definitely not a good look.
At time of writing, there's just a week to go until the end of the month (including today). I would like to have a payout from Noise by then, but it'll require quite a push. I'm not going to hold my breath hoping. Today, I've got to do boring admin work: mainly invoices and receipts. I'm not looking forward to that, but needs must. Being a one-man band has its drawbacks.
I was hoping to get my washing done today, but that's not going to happen because the weather is cloudy and overcast, with mist. The rest of the week is going to be the same. This is a problem, since I'm going to run out of things to wear unless I tumble-dry my clothes. Anyway, after a quick shower and quick breakfast, it's time to get back to work and bring in some money before next month.
People ask, "What is the use of this philosophy in practical life?" The answer is as follows: Ignorance of Adwaita means involvement without any chance of escape. It sometimes gives pleasure, sometimes pain, and they come in turn. It creates worries and worries reduce the chances of future freedom from attachment. If Adwaita is accepted, involvement ceases. One watches everything as it it. The mind is not preoccupied with worries. One is free to change a situation without…
The changes to my client's Website are done. I just need to test them before committing them to the main branch and putting them live. Why is the last 10% of the project (the final tweaks and improvements) always the hardest, most tedious part to get done?
Ladies, gentlemen and folks of other genders, I present to you Sir Richard Banson! #banano #ban #meme #imageManipulation
The changes to my client's site are live and the invoice has been sent. I should get about $60 from them for that. My American client has also been invoiced, to the tune of $150. All going well, I might be able to afford eating properly next month. https://www.dargledalekennels.co.za/ Tomorrow, I can give my undivided attention to the German's project, once I've finished my own site and made some promotional material for antisocial media.
I've claimed my daily allocation of Good Dollars (G$), although the amount continues to go down. I've got an hour and twenty minutes to wait until I can again claim Banano (BAN) from the faucets. I might as well work on my Website and some adverts for antisocial media while I wait.
American: "I'm proud to be a merkin!" Me: Really, why? WTF have you got of which to be so proud; Baby Killers International, backwoods ways, teaching Creationism, stymied race relations, shitty and nutrition-devoid "food", polluting the environment with your SUVs and military-industrial complex? Je ne comprends pas. "[Pretend] Patriotism is the last refuge of a [self-interested] scoundrel." — Dr. Samuel Johnson (1775)
The electricity went off at 06:00 this morning. Apparently, it will only come back on at 20:00 tonight. The parastatal company is apparently doing much-needed maintenance/upgrades to the supply grid (which they should have done at least twenty years ago). While I'm pleased the work's being done, I'm not thrilled that it limits the amount of time I have for getting my work done. I've got maybe four hours in which to make maximum use of my laptop. Today is definitely going to…
In looking for Banano Faucets, I've just found jungletv.live and have earned more Banano (BAN) from it in the last half an hour than from all the faucets I've hit in the last four days. I think I've finally found a decent passive earner.
I've been quite quiet when it comes to posting on Noise this week, which obviously isn't good for my #BCH earnings. That's partly because I've had to contend with long power cuts, partly because I've been getting #freelance #work done and partly because I've been watching #JungleTV. I must admit I'm enjoying the latter, even with the weird and Ultra-Nationalist Alt Wrong content that I've seen. It might not be the easiest crypto I've ever earned passively, but it's certainly…
Things fall apart. The centralised cannot HODL.
I've just received 10 Banano (BAN) from Jungle TV, in addition to amounts from the various faucets. Not bad for a day's being online, but definitely a far cry from being profitable/viable in the long term. I almost forgot to claim the daily GoodDollar (G$) amount, too.
When last did you update your Website? Have you considered what it looks like on a mobile device, such as a smart phone or tablet? Is it responsive? My most recent client certainly did, hiring me to modernise their site with a clean and simple look, for a reasonable price. They were thrilled with the result.
"Do not be guided and influenced by public opinion. March boldly and cheerfully in the path of Truth [and Freedom], consulting your inner conscience and hearing the inner, small, sweet voice of the soul." — Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)
"Do you know how far this has gone? Just how damaged have I become? When I think I can overcome, It runs even deeper; Everything that matters is gone. All the hands of hope have withdrawn." https://www.youtu.be/mIrfGWo7fME
Captive/semi-domesticated monkeys shouldn't eat cultivated/domesticated bananas, because they are unhealthy, containing too much sugar. "Animal nutritionists at Paignton Zoo in Devon say giving bananas to the primates is like humans eating too much cake and chocolate." "Compared to the food they would eat in the wild, bananas are much more energy-dense - they have lots of calories - and contain much more sugar that's bad for their teeth and can lead to diabetes and similar…
The #paradox of finding permanent #employment is that in order to get it, one must already have it.
Another day, another claim from the Banano and GoodDollar faucets. I've got ~20 BAN, so still a long way to go. At least I'm also mining it with XMRig, but that's not exactly lucrative. I had hoped to be earning at least a dollar's worth a day, but that isn't happening.
Opinion poll: Does the beard on the cartoon that is my profile picture make it look evil? Some of my friends seem to think so. What do you think? https://read.cash/@GreatWhiteSnark/opinion-poll-do-beards-make-men-look-evil-26e1e20b #opinion #poll #beard #cartoon
I know myself well enough to know I'm inclined to be both #fixer and #protector of my flock (which is pretty rich, since I can't fix my own shit or protect myself, never mind do the same for anyone else). I have, however, learned not to leap for that course of action, since it's not always required or welcome. What I wonder (and have for a long time) is what exactly it is about us (the broken and bruised, the damaged, the sick and the scarred) that we seek each other out,…
I got a message from my American client early this morning. He's still making excuses as to why he's not paying me. This time, it's health issues. What's next, his grandma's funeral? Come on, dude; this sh|t is already old. Pony up and pay me already! You've had nearly a month to do so. I really should add interest with each month that passes. #shirker #nonpayment #annoying #excuses
It's always disappointing when I find out that someone I respected and with whom I thought I clicked turns out to be a gross creep. "I thought we got along. I guess I got it wrong." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irMlMBEAjMk
You're not reading this by accident. This is your confirmation that everything is going to be OK. You're going to make it through just fine, no matter what life looks like right now. The universe is going to unfold exactly as it should. As long as you keep moving and making the effort, change will come your way. Hold on, be strong and do not quit, no matter the trials you face and the strength required. That is the way to reach your goals, no matter how distant or…
The front lawn is cut. It's time now for a quick lunch of stale bread and cheese, before making a start on the back lawn. I might as well take advantage of the sun while it's out, despite what the weather report showed. If I'd been smart about it, I would have got my laundry done too. Oh, well, I'll just have to see what Monday brings.
Private Pipsqueak went on Monkey Patrol shortly after lunch and had to be grounded, lest he over-exert himself in the heat. He is an annoying, yappy little git. I wish he'd shut up after the first ten minutes, but he goes on for at least an hour (often two) and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it, since we're out of CBD oil cookies and the supplier is out of stock.
Both the front and back lawns are done, just in time before the sun set and the rain started. I also had the presence of mind to have my pedometer app running. It recorded about seven thoudand (7 000) steps, but it felt like more. I might have given myself a slight freezer burn using an ice pack to keep my phone cool. It was a waste of a day, but at least that nonsense and time sink is out of the way. Tomorrow, I exercise pooches.
I almost have enough Banano (BAN) to enqueue a video in/on #JungleTV. I am very tempted to troll the right-wing gun nuts with Jim Jeffries talking about gun control, but I'm not going to waste my meagre earnings.
Exercising less than thirty dogs in the rain wasn't worth pitching up to work today. I got paid just enough to cover the price of my petrol for getting there and back. I might as well not have bothered. I could have stayed home and done some work on my Website, with JungleTV running in the background. #work #pay #income #wastedTime I really need to find better-paying work. I'll try to spend a few hours doing that this week, not that I think anything's going to change.
I went grocery shopping after work today, walked past a gorgeous young woman in black suede thigh-high boots and a miniskirt. I tried not to stare. Yummy.
Tonight, I wondered why I couldn't find my video on YT. Then I realised I hadn't yet uploaded it there. I'm not going to; I'd rather put it on 3Speak, provided I ever make enough to cover my monthly expenses and have enough left over to invest in Hive.
PSA for Men: The correct way to eat a woman's beaver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rEss9IFCEE The video is not what you think it is. #funny #pun
"I've heard that most #furries are too smart for #NFTs, too. Furries, as a subculture, are hugely into art and fan art of anthropomorphic characters and fursonas and so on. Like, huge. They're one of the few subcultures that will regularly pay decent chunks of money for commissioned original artwork. It's a whole thing. This includes digital artwork, and many furries are nerds or techies in other ways. In short, furries know from art, and are exactly the sort of people who…
I would really, desperately, like to get back to a point in my life where I earn enough each month to be able to both pay my bills and afford to eat properly. Going to bed on a nearly- empty stomach and not sleeping properly as a consequence is horrible. The knock-on effect of not having enough energy to get a full day's work done at full capacity (never mind having to contend with random, unscheduled twelve or more hour power-cuts limiting my available hours) is also far…
"We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope." — Romans 5:3-4
Today, the sun is shining (although I don't know for how long). I'm going to risk getting my laundry done while I can, then go job hunting (seeing as my client has still not payed me and going to bed hungry isn't any fun). #weather #chores #hunger
I got blocked from a group for pointing out to someone that they were spreading crypto FUD and that their argument was BS. LoL. People really do cling very strongly to their baseless beliefs, don't they? I suppose that's why Christianity is still a thing. https://endthefud.org/
I just tried to sign up with #CryptoMonKeys. It won't let me connect with MetaMask or the WAX wallet (doesn't work with Discord, Reddit or email). This is frustrating. It looks like there'll be no receiving NFTs from #JungleTV for me, just #banano (of which I have ~55 BAN). I finally managed to get in with Google, of all things (bletch!), but now it wants 5 #WAX or a promo #code, neither of which I have. That's just fantastic!
My client is now trying to use the invasion of the Ukraine and the fact that the financial markets have taken a knock as an #excuse not to #pay me. The sheer gall, creativity and shamelessness of this man is f@@king #unbelievable!
My poor old girl is not feeling well and is clearly in #pain. I don't know what's wrong with her. At first, the vet thought that she had arthritis, but now the symptoms don't seem to match. She's always had a sensitive stomach, but now it seems much worse. I'm really hoping she hasn't got cancer. At any rate, I need to find ~$85 to #pay for the appointment, blood tests and, possibly, X-rays. Otherwise, I won't be able to pay my other #bills or afford #food for myself. I have…
This is Aperham Lincoln, president of the Bananunion (Banano Union).
Fooking Hell, another power-cut! Today has been a complete disaster, in which I have got absolutely no work done. The flipping joys of living in a Third World country!
Here's a quick list of #Banano #Faucets: 1. BananoFaucet.cc: Pays between 0.5 and 42 Ban, depending on how active you are in the r/banano subreddit. (Requires a Reddit account, of course) 2. Faucet.prussia.dev: Claim once every 24 hours 3. faucet.bananotime.com: Based on the Prussia Dev faucet; claim once every 24 hours; guess the correct number for bonus BAN 4. Bananodrip.com: Claim 0.001 BAN every 24 hours (not worth the effort, IMO) 5. banano-faucet.herokuapp.com (TNV):…
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