I know there's plenty of orange and red, but I had to share the dusk view from my porch.

PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE. WHY? For fun! I've got my system in place, and I'll interpret what the blockchain of randomized causality spits back. Feel free to shuffle your own and draw, spout off the top of

Bye-bye, Blockchain Jung! I've made the personal decision to keep my tarot cards my own, and instead of delving deep into the psyche publicly, I will zero-down on the day to day off the minor arcana--page

Local Flavor! This is the beautiful interior of Seed Savers, but we'll get to that. Please peruse on ... First: Pinter's. My parents visited this weekend from Kentucky, and short of driving multiple hours

What am I doing here? What are you doing here? Let's talk about what we talk about. I don't want to speak for all minnows, but in a decently active 2 months I've had like 2 and a half good ideas for topics

Following Instructions! So you got a tarot deck. Big deal. Who doesn't have a tarot deck these days? Wakka wakka. So magic is concatenizing with the Cyber. Big deal. Seriously though: This whole dang platform

Norway in an Asteroid Crater Hey, hey, hey, Steemians. Now you'll get a good glimpse of my town. Thursday 27/7 was the opening of the 51st Annual Nordicfest, the celebration of the deep Norwegian heritage

Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa I had never heard of this until I moved here. Somehow Iowa takes cycling very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that the local patriarchs of this town of

"Okay, Marcus, be careful. Remember what the sign said," said John. His son was a dutiful eight years old. Polite kid, and he followed rules well, but the urge to explore is always strong in

I think we can agree that it takes the most hardcore classical liberal or anarchist to walk around and feel enslaved by the Man or the System or what have you every waking moment. Or does it!? Let's break

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The beginning sucks. When you're not an artist, freehanding the steemy S's is unnecessarily hard. Dangit. Even my eraser isn't helping. Okay, not terrible. A big sharpie line helped a little. The brainstorming

Let's start at the top. We're all (mostly) using pseudonyms on here, in that hacker-y way of selecting your Matrix name. But plenty of us have already etched something probably identifiable into the

"These differences are superficial," he argued. "It's true. We're all one species," she agreed. "This farce that there are meaningful differences only extend to very specialized

Pardon my frankness, but holy shit do I have a reading list for you! First let's tune in for my inspiratory stream-of-consciousness riffraffery. All good? Then HERE WE GO: Let's begin by accepting that

Obligatory thumbnail. I've recently added two separate sets of full link series, including the dreaded post-payouts, in my posts in two general swaths, futurist invocations/rants and

Ready for a big, heaping slice of Americana? Walking there through my neighborhood. That was quick! Decorah is not large, nestled in our little crater, and the fairgrounds are right at the edge of town.

First Thoughts. Source: Futurism.com If greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution, it is all but certain that the human species will be extinct in very short order.

My posts will be amazing if I win this thing

Another Vignette from the Road Here is the very small town of river rats known as Lansing. This is the place I mentioned before where you can see so many bald eagles. I spotted two on the way out, but