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Shaine
@shainemata
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Roving nerd. Grazing the interwebs. Restless any other time.
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CineTV
2026-06-13 19:28
Star City, So Far
I started watching For All Mankind probably in its second season. The show was kind of like The Man in the High Castle, which explores what might have happe
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googleworkspace
2026-05-26 04:30
The Whole Tachometer: Why I’m Redesigning My Life With Google Workspace
There is a specific metaphor from motorcycle culture, championed by the team at Fortnine, that has been rattling around my head lately: "You paid for the whole tachometer, so use the whole
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health
2026-05-08 17:30
Coming Back To Life
Towards the end of 2025, I came down with something that left me a little dopey (even more than usual). It wasn’t exactly the flu or COVID, but whatever it was, my concentration and ability to deliver
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religion
2025-10-30 06:27
Seeing Christian Themes in the Bhagavad Gita
A few nights ago, I decided to look into the Bhagavad Gita. I had heard about it many years ago in university, but never got around to reading it. I watched a c
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love
2025-10-21 20:48
Proof of Love
I have been going over this blog post in my mind for a week. It's a story that I think should be told. But I can't quite figure out how to tell it. Rather than
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CineTV
2025-10-11 06:36
Worth: Movie Review
Last night, before bed, I watched Worth starring Michael Keaton as Kenneth Feinberg. The story follows Feinberg and his business partner Camille Biros as
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CineTV
2025-10-09 18:28
Catching Up on Movie Queue
Over the years I have added movies to my Netflix watch list. The list has grown longer and longer as I rarely sit down to watch any of them. Some of this is pro
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python
2025-10-05 21:21
Python Learning Day 3
I finished Module 3 of learning Python with the intention of using it with AI. Today's lesson included some steps we missed on floating numbers and tuples. The
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journal
2025-10-03 02:56
Accelerated Pace This Week
It's always a mystery to me how life can be hot or cold. Busy or boring. Things seem to swing from one extreme to the next. This week has kept me moving. I've m
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python
2025-10-01 01:16
Python Learning Day 2
I recently wrote that I finally decided to learn Python. I just finished the second d
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python
2025-09-29 07:03
Finally Decided To Learn Python
I finally decided to sit down and learn how to code in Python. I just finished up a learning module. I took other programming courses in college. I learned some
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CineTV
2025-09-26 18:34
Finished Watching FUBAR on Netflix
Last night I finished watching the second season of FUBAR, a Netflix series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's a campy show about CIA operatives trying to bal
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blog
2025-09-23 04:13
Linking To Hive Posts From Blogger.com
I have some blogs on Blogger.com that I have let lie dormant in recent years, since discovering [Steem](
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resilience
2025-08-18 13:35
Making Lemonade
A couple of days ago, I wrote a blog post about choosing a new direction and considering a change from what I was doing to find something that works better. It's funny how life finds a way to force your
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life
2025-08-16 01:43
My Next Direction
My Next Direction I'm writing this without getting into specifics because I'm in a transition of sorts. I'm currently in one place but am working toward being in another, which requires some changes on
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LeoFinance
2025-07-13 20:58
Stablecoins As a Backdoor Implementation of the Chicago Plan
The rise of stablecoins is undoubtedly a great development in our monetary system. The key benefits of stablecoins being fast, low-cost, and peer-to-peer value transfer. Stablecoins are pegged to any given
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opinion
2025-06-25 22:26
The Fight Against Self-Censorship
I am quite opinionated, particularly about politics. Yet, I have not been forthcoming with any such opinions in my blog posts. I have expressed some opinions in
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Hive Book Club
2025-06-09 06:49
Uneasy Money by P. G. Wodehouse
Uneasy Money is an entertaining love story by P. G. Wodehouse. By today's standards, it would be a romantic comedy. This book was first published in 1916. And one might thing that the writing of that time
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hodl
2025-06-02 01:05
The Hidden Tax on Your Bitcoin Gains: Why "HODLing" Might Not Make You as Rich as You Think
The Allure of Bitcoin Riches Bitcoin to the moon! Number go up. We're all excited about buying lambos and living the life of luxury simply by hodling our Bitcoin. After all, it's a scarce asset of only
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googleai
2025-05-29 09:25
Will Google Search's AI Mode Have Game-changing Effects for SEO?
I haven't really deep-dived into the technical parts of this. It seems to me that Google's new AI Search mode could dramatically change the SEO game. Having full contextual understanding of blog posts
