It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees. -Mario Puzo

The law of big numbers is a classroom lesson I teach in reference to slot machine statistics (my casino background makes this mandatory), flowing into stars in the universe and grains of sand on earth. I use lessons like these as a good opportunity to mention Bitcoin security. Guessing someone's Bitcoin seed phrase would be as likely as finding one particular grain of sand on earth kind of stuff. It's difficult for my students to grasp numbers that big. I recently read an article comparing the number of stars in the universe with grains of sand on earth. The Winner?

There's no neutral ground anymore.

Sugar is mainlined in mass.

A young family stopped by the back yard for a visit.

The smoke from the Western slope fires make a beautiful sky over the Continental Divide.

The solo miner is the modern day panner.

That time you realized it was all corporate propaganda manufactured to promote lifelong debt servitude.

School starts soon. We'll look back at these times in the future and realize self-carry cell phones were a mistake. It will be looked at much like student cigarette smoking areas are today.

I miss a bunch of my old gamblers from the casino days. Some of the most resilient people you can meet.