I have just experimented with spending $20SBD on promoting a post that had previously quickly reached over $100SBD through organic voting. I looked on STEEMVIZ - the app that shows how much is needing

Wrote this some time around October/November '16, but felt it was too personal and awkward to share. However, it is part of the explanation for the hiatus, so here you are. So it happened again. Although

I had a lot of "jobs" in my life. Made websites before it was cool to download free templates. Served in a hospital, tending to the sick and helping the nurses. For years worked as a cashier

Ahoy, liebe Freunde und Follower! Die Gründe für die Pause werde ich in einem anderen Beitrag darlegen, soviel schulde ich Euch. Letzte Woche diskutierten zwei Mitschüler über Bitcoin. Der eine hatte gerade

Ahoy, dear friends, followers and newbie Steemians! I will explain the reasons for the hiatus in a different post, I owe you that much. Last week, a discussion broke out between two of my schoolmates about

One of the many books I devoured as a kid was Erwin Glonnegger's Das Spiele-Buch: Brett- und Legespiele aus aller Welt. Herkunft, Regeln und Geschichte (The Book of Games: Board and tile-based Games from

On January 14th, 1975, Major Peter Makowicka, 33, is on a training mission with his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21 SPS „849“. During approach on the military airbase Cottbus, German Democratic Republic (Eastern

It has been opined that, through the application of the scientific method, sound reasoning, logical argument and a little love, our world can become a better place for this and the following generations

you'll need loudspeakers and an amp I got what originally was the foot of a computer monitor with built-in speakers for one or two Euros at a garage sale. It expects 9 Volts, runs fine at 6 Volts too,

first step Always have your old breadbox ready for battle, connected to a TV, with both Competition Pro joysticks in clear view. Don't lock it away in the basement "in case you feel the urge to unbox

some more SorgenFreu tunes with German lyrics - enjoy anyway, whatever your language! :) Disclaimer: this is recycled content. Wie gesagt, SorgenFreu halt, diesmal mit Gameboy, Gitarre, Computerorchester.

yo this is some Spectrum ZX Beeper 1-Bit Engine rhythm and poetry in German, enjoy whatever your language! :) Es ist schon alles gesagt, nur noch nicht von allen. ~ Karl Valentin ...und nich auf Steemit.

In last week's What's your Steemit Mental Model?, @razvanelulmarin rightfully asked how to make a model, a picture of Steemit, how to grasp it. No matter how often, to explain my utter lack of disappointment,

A long time ago, in the age of the Occupy (Wall Street NY) and Blockupy (ECB Frankfurt) movements, Facebook and Blogs erupted with wonderful ideas of decentralization, anarchy, (liquid) democracy, swarm

In Ten facts everyone needs to know about Care Homes (Before They All Close Down!)., @lloydy calls for a fight against the closing of care homes in the UK. I wanted to comment, but got into rambling and

a long, long, long time ago, I considered and identified myself a Feminist, an Anarchist, a Pacifist, an Utopist and Atheist (all before it was cool), but then the day came that I was accused of Antisemitism

If you're still stuck with the riddle from the last post, here comes the solution. But first the riddle again: View 1 Earthrise, Apollo 8, Dec. 24, 1968. nasa.gov . LM approaches CSM for docking / earthrise

personal note I have tried, for the 16 years of using this pseudonym, to build a reputation of consistency: of being consistently random and unpredictable, advocating opinions I don't have, of trolling

Conspiracy theories are BS, we all know that. tinfoil hat with style Only gullible fools and emotionally unhinged attention-seekers could believe that public opinion on the internet would be astroturfed,

Laypeople and experts of Steemit: WELCOME! The category #towerchallenge shall henceforth be dedicated to civil, scientific, objective and agnostic debate and discussion about one question: How to build