I went to the public library today to get a specific book. The fiction section has about 8 shelves, so, 16 rows. There is exactly one person in fiction, and, of course, she is standing in front of the book that I want. My book is belt level directly in front of her. The woman is scanning titles at eye level and up. My wife and I stop, each of us on one side of the woman, obviously there, obviously eyeballing a certain book directly ahead. Does she get a hint? Does she move? Of course not. She stands and scans. We are unacknowledged. I think about reaching into the breech and grabbing the book, no harm done, but don't. "Excuse me," my wife says. No response. "Excuse me," my wife repeats and reaches in to quickly fetch out the book. The woman never looked at us, replied, or anything. Maybe she was deaf, maybe mad at us for for being inbher space, possibly standing her ground as she was here first by golly!, maybe mentally challenged. Still, weird. And with 16 rows! Of course she's there!

Someone who has a little money in one of the bitcoin ETFs just texted me and asked if they should sell. The thought was it's gone up fast, a drawback is expected. I said I'd hold. (I actually did talk a bit about time preference...if on a long term plan, I'd definitely hold. Educashun is key.)

Obtainium is pretty slick. I tried it a year+ ago but couldn't figure it out (embarassing, but truel. Well, I got it figured out and seems much better than Play store. Now, if I could only figure out how to use Amber signing app.

The radial symmetry of looking straight down on a spruce. #nature

Bridging around I've been playing around with bridges to and from various places: (1) the Nostr protocol, (2) the Hive blockchain, and (3) Mastodon. And, I guess we could also throw in (4) the Hive-Engine layer 2 sidechain of Hive. It's intrigued me that these unrelated things can be linked up in an interactive manner. Here's ho... Bridged via Hostr at

Hostr

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Bridging around | PeakD

Playing around and tying things together with bridges.... by crrdlx

Fruits of hiking. #nature

My wife has been battling over her ebike with a bad battery or system or something. The bike shop is very meh about it. Been ongoing and we're both discouraged. But on the bright side, since we can't bike, we decided to go for a hike today. I'm kind of boyishly looking forward to it. #outdoors #nature

There used to be a Mastodon bridge, then there wasn't. I begged for someone to build a new one. No takers. So... I hacked together "Nostrdon". What you post on Nostr gets auto-bridged to Mastodon. It's basic, but working. See:

GitHub

GitHub - crrdlx/nostrdon: A Nostr-to-Mastodon bridge. What you post on Nostr is auto cross-posted to Mastodon.

A Nostr-to-Mastodon bridge. What you post on Nostr is auto cross-posted to Mastodon. - crrdlx/nostrdon

#nostr #mastodon

Never fails...you go to tap something and the instant before touching the screen, an image from above finishes loading, the entire screen scrolls down a bit, and you wind up accidentally tapping some forsaken clickbait link. There must be a word for this, or there should be.