A Good Morning! *** UPDATE: I've just been informed that the doctor sent Pagi home. She is not quite ready to deliver yet. Well phooey! The next few days are going to be interesting for all of us. *** **** UPDATE 2: Darn it! The friggin' water just went out! :-( **** **** UPDATE 3: Now the torrential rains are back. Good grief! But at least we still have good stuff to eat, I hope. **** After a shaky start, (our older kid was awake and out of bed at 4:30 am for some silly…
Current Status of the Chicken Slapping Debate Unless you've been living under a rock, (are you my neighbor?), you are certainly aware of the great YouTube chicken slapping debate. For those unfortunates who don't know what I am talking about, this is speculation over whether it is possible to convert the kinetic energy of a powerful slap, or a series of slaps, into thermal energy which will be sufficient to cook a chicken. Unlike trifling matters such as the legitimacy of…
Phipps Conservatory Last year, when we were still in the USA, we travelled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and visited the wonderful Phipps Conservatory, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phipps_Conservatory_and_Botanical_Gardens . I grew up in Pittsburgh, and Phipps was one of my favorite places to visit when I was a kid. We haven't lived in Pittsburgh in years, (three decades or more!), but I am pleased to say that the conservatory is still going strong, and in fact was expanded…
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Apparently I Just Tipped Myself? I've been wondering recently if tipping here on noise.cash is broken or something. Could the constant changes to the algorithms have finally wrecked the software within which they are implemented? I think I finally have my answer. Look at the attached pic. I was just able to tip myself! So, yes, tipping on noise.cash is insane, at least temporarily.
The Position of F*ck You This, believe it or not, is a post about a somewhat dry subject, namely, how to manage your finances, and ultimately how to tell those who oppress you to F*ck Off! I will be referring y'all to the webpages written by the insightful J L Collins. But first, let me introduce you to our hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eikbQPldhPY . Yes, this is a copy of the famous John Goodman clip, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI , modified to…
Atomic Wallet: Some Bugs, Much Cute I have my crypto "fortune" scattered across several wallets. One of the wallets I use is Atomic Wallet. It is a software wallet which I run on my Apple laptop computer. I got this wallet because it was supposed to be good for staking. I am currently staking Cosmos (ATOM) and Tron (TRX) on it. The staking is okay, but I find that it can be a little "buggy", particularly if you don't update your wallet with the latest software release.…
Hacking the Hackers While it is good news that some of the money Colonial Pipeline paid to the folks who hacked their network has been recovered, is anyone else concerned about a government taking Bitcoins from individuals? Sure, these hackers are a bunch of shitheads, and deserve to have the snot beaten out of them, (these would be long, severe beatings, since they all so full of snot!), but if governments acquire the will and means to steal bitcoins from our wallets, what…
A Crypto Miner Reacts to Elon's Latest Foolishness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm-mdZq1HyA The YouTube channel that hosts this video, VoskCoin, is run by a guy who has dedicated his time and money to mining cryptocurrency. This is what he does for a living, how he pays the bills, so needless to say he is not happy when some bozo like Elon comes along and threatens his livelihood. I feel the poor guy's frustration when he has to mince words when discussing how crazy Doge,…
Best Ways to Earn Free Crypto Coin Bureau released a new video a few days ago on ways to earn free crypto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ppvbTxHDFw . The video covers crypto faucets, (cointiply.com is cited as the best), airdrops, coinbase "earn", publish0x, (neither read.cash nor noise.cash are mentioned), blockchain games, (anyone play Town Star or Lost Relics?), reddit posts on r/cryptocurrency, and binance. While some of these only pay out meagre sums, one of the…
Growing Maize in Asia / Wealth and Poverty Although we are currently in Asia, and thus have rice with every meal, ("powered by rice!"), where we live is unsuited to growing rice. So the grain folks grow around here is maize, or as we Americans refer to it, corn. You can see a shared corn field in the first two pics. My wife's mama gets half the harvest from this field. The other half goes to the guy who plowed, planted, and fertilized the corn. (We paid for the fertilizer.)…
Shirley Caesar Sings a Sermon Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llF_6eUoZK0 . Give it a listen or two. I realize that Ms. Caesar doesn't necessarily speak standard English, so if English isn't your first language, you may have to listen carefully to this more than once to understand it. But IMHO it is worth it! It's a great little parable about worldly success, and what really constitutes a "good" life. Shirley Caesar hails from Durham, NC. (…
The 102 Year Old Lightbulb If you look at the first pic, you will see an incandescent lightbulb that has been shining for 102 years. While it can't be said to be shining brightly, (it is rather dim), that fact that it has been giving off light for more than a century is quite a feat. Or is it? Have you ever heard of the Phoebus Cartel? Did you know that they were a group of lightbulb manufacturers who got together in late 1924 and conspired to make the average life span of…
Mint.Bitcoin.Com is Being Replaced? (Affects BCH SLP Tokens) Just a quick note here - it seems mint.bitcoin.com is gonna be replaced. I have no idea what Pitco 2.0 is, or when it will arrive, but once it does, I hope to be able to FINALLY send folks those GOB token I had promised to send weeks, (months?), ago. Until then, I question the usability of BCH SLP tokens. Has anyone found another way to create them?
Passing on Penakbet I haven't annoyed or insulted anyone in quite a while, so I figured it was time to rectify this lack of ambition on my part. And today is quite a good day to do it, as the power went out last night, and I woke up hot and sweaty. Why did I wake up hot and sweaty? Because my cold weather craving Filipina wife insists on cranking the A/C down to a ridiculous 20 degrees when we go to bed. This means that in order to be comfortable, I need to sleep under a…
More Croatian Music Maybe it's because of Snjeguljica's post about 2Cellos, ( https://noise.cash/post/lw0xzq5k ), or maybe it's because someone else possibly posted about this CD already, and I've just forgotten about it, (cut me a break - I'm old, and like Prez Biden my brain is getting kinda squishy), but for some odd reason Croatian musicians keep popping up on my computer. This album by ...... oh heck, I haven't a clue who they are, just that they're from Croatia, and…
Updated List of Five Top Free Wallets - Coin Bureau The Coin Bureau YouTube channel has just released an updated list of the five top free software wallets. You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN8A3YzT8JI . This video replaces an earlier version of the top five free wallets. What changed? Gone is the Jaxx wallet, replaced by Metamask. (If you're curious, the older version of the video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTH8wGxLOnY .)…
Atomic Wallet And BCH Don't Play Well Together? **** EDIT: The recovery process described at https://noise.cash/post/lv2898ww works wonderfully! **** Since I've been on noise.cash, I've been sending my bits and pieces of BCH earned here to my Atomic Wallet. To date, I've managed to accumulate a nice amount, about $90 USD worth of BCH. Rather than have that $90 just sitting idle in my wallet, I decided to put it to use. Atomic Wallet supports staking for several tokens, so it…
Anyone Able To Send BCH To Coins.PH? **** EDIT: My BCH finally showed up in my Coins.PH wallet. Apparently having the prefix on the address works okay. **** Well this sucks! After having issues with BCH on my Atomic Wallet, (which apparently were caused by the micro payments I received when I first joined this site?), I switched my "pay out" wallet to be coins.ph. I was curious to see if this wallet would work better, so after a LONG time waiting to reach my cash out level,…
Where The Arthropods Rule I have learned an important lesson about life in the Philippines: don't go outside! Why? Because you won't won't last two minutes without some darn creepy crawly thing biting or stinging you! This is truly the realm of the insects and their kin, and we humans are the interlopers. For example, every surface seems home to some type of ant. Big brown ants, tiny black ants, and all kinds of ants in between scuttle about looking for something to eat, or…
Handheld Internet Devices: Good or Bad? I was having a "discussion" with another user on noise.cash, ( https://noise.cash/u/AnnieMarie ), about smartphones and other such internet friendly devices, and we wondered whether these things were a benefit to our lives, or a detriment. Now before y'all call me a luddite who is too old to appreciate the newest technology, take a look at the attached pic. That is my wife and two sons first thing in the morning. All three are already…
Internet Free Mondays I'm back! Did anyone miss me? (Anybody? Hello?) I did NOT log onto noise.cash yesterday. In fact, I did not even log onto the internet. Why? Because my wife and I have decided that from now on, Mondays will be an "Internet Free" day. The idea for this came from discussions I had with noise.cash/u/AnnieMarie . She mentioned how she limited her daughter to watching YouTube after dinner. Our older son had no such restrictions on internet usage. In fact, he…
How I Use Three Different BCH Wallets With all the BCH I am "earning" here on noise.cash, I've had the opportunity to divide my "wealth" up amongst three different wallets. Each wallet is used for a different purpose. 1. Coins.PH (app.coins.ph). This wallet is super convenient for using BCH as cash, or converting it to fiat. I can exchange my BCH for Philippine Pesos, then cash out these Philippine Pesos and send them to a tiny M Lhuillier branch in a nearby small village,…
Rating Users I just did something I had promised I would never do. I rated two users, https://noise.cash/u/AnnieMarie and https://noise.cash/u/Monalisa4328 . What rating did I give them? Why EXCELLENT, of course! Why bother to rate somebody if you aren't going to give them the best rating? (That's my thoughts on it, anyway.) Why these two users? They were brought to my attention as users whom the auto-mod rating procedure had unfairly slammed for some vague transgression, or…
Dried Fish in the Morning Maybe it's because I'm old, but first thing in the morning I am usually not my normal pleasant, sweet self. Getting out of bed can be a chore, and it seems that every friggin' part of my body that is capable of sensation just has to send an "ouch" signal to my brain. It must be some form of daily bodily maintenance, I guess. I'm quite grumpy when I first get up. So you can imagine my considerable lack of delight when, as I was moving about the…
Is a Backlash Against All Vaccines Starting to Form? Has the inability to get unfiltered information about Covid and the gene therapy "vaccine" used to treat it left you with a general distrust of our medical establishment? Are you now wondering about the safety of ALL vaccines, and maybe even willing to consider joining up with other "anti-vax" folks to protest against mandatory vaccinations? Before I go any further into this fun topic, let me state where I stand on these…
Why The Philippines is So Poor / Why Covid Lockdowns Will Continue Yesterday we went to the beach. By "we", I mean 18 of us! News spread quickly that a beach expedition was being planned, so besides our immediate family, neighbors and friends asked to come along. So we had two vans full of folks chugging along to the beach. Because we had to cross a provincial boundary to get to the beach my wife selected, (it was actually a resort; more on that later, if I feel up to it),…
The Insanity Known as Driving in the Philippines, Part Two I've written about the nuttiness that passes for driving behavior here in the Philippines before. (Check out https://noise.cash/post/1vv8z3r0 if you're curious.) But today we encountered something that made we wonder if you Filipinos just enjoy the "thrill" of narrowly missed collisions. This "something" wasn't the small cluster of goats that wandered onto a major four lane road, bringing traffic to a stop. (The…
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