update on bitcoin

so, obviously, im not giving financial advice, and you would be very foolish to listen to me if i were, but if you went out after reading my post yesterday and put $100 "us dollars" into bitcoins when they were around $13 per, and sold them now when i post this follow up when they are $18.99 per, then you would be +$46.08 (minus fees for various exchanges)

obviously, past performance is no guarantee of future gains, but theres that.

i accept donations in bitcoin
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a follow up

an article at smartmoney.com about bitcoins

bitcoin

ok, welcome to the next thing thats completely awesome that I wish I had picked up on 6 months ago.  its bitcoin, open source money.  

if you want to send me any, please feel free.  I accept any fraction of a full coin, with my thanks.

send to 15Q4A2b8iRFXfFpvMGzJhe7tiTzFkyJknJ

fyi, 1 bitcoin was worth <$1 usd in April, is now trading on one exchange for >$13usd per bitcoin

memo to myself, if i have a seizure at a national monument, make sure i dont have headphones on

Theme song for today: 'Masters of War' by bob dylan

All I'm saying is. . .

On pawn stars when the forensic handwriting expert determines the signature originated from an auto pen, the value drops to zero quite quickly. The value-add of the signature drops to zero that is. If somebody auto penned a famous name onto a bar of sunken treasure gold, you still get the value of the gold, just the fact that its signed by Shakespeare becomes irrelevant. So you're left I guess asking yourself what the value of the signed item is intrinsically. So there's that. Which civilization is credited with the concept of zero, can we reference that?

So. . .

Does that mean if I'm incarcerated because of violations to the Patriot Act extension I can have my xbox live avatar serve the prison time?

Life lessons from Indiana

No food at Menards.

Some thoughts for central Kentucky

If you want to scratch "the south will rise again" somewhere, maybe look a little harder and don't settle so fast on the top of the toilet paper dispenser in the rest area.

Grimsvotn rises!

I wish English had more flair and drama, and wasn't just the stuff left on the side of the pot of everything that passes through it.

I'm officially laying claim to this idea, before I search to see if its already out there. Its mine.

Two words. Alliterative even. Its going to be huge . Camouflage clamdiggers.

You ever . . .?

Run up against one of those movies that when you read the review, the review is so bad its really funny and it makes you want to watch the movie just for the comedy gold? Well, take my advice, its better just to read the review and laugh and mock from afar than to try to watch it. Thank you SyFy, for teaching me something again.

If you were going to make a mix tape for your wife for your 15 year anniversary from 1996-2011, this is one suggestion of what it might look like

1996 Peter Gabriel  :  In Your Eyes
1996 They Might Be Giants  :  Ana Ng
1996 Weezer  :  The World Has Turned
1996 Oasis  :  Wonderwall
1997 Foo Fighters  :  Everlong
1997 Blur  :  Song 2
1997 Primitive Radio Gods  :  Standing Outside. . .
1997 Squirrel Nut Zippers  :  Hell
1997 Len  :  Steal My Sunshine
1997 The Verve  :  Bittersweet Symphony
1997 Green Day  :  Good Riddance
1998 Eve 6  :  Inside Out
1998 Fuel  :  Shimmer
1999 Third Eye Blind  :  Jumper
2000 Blink 182  :  All The Small Things
2000 Lenny Kravitz  :  Are You Gonna Go My Way
2001 Coldplay  :  Yellow
2001 Fuel :  Hemorrhage
2001 Jimmy Eat World  :  Bleed American
2002 Dirty Vegas  :  Days Go By
2002 Foo Fighters  :  All My Life
2003 Dido  :  White Flag
2003 White Stripes  :  Fell In Love With A Girl
2004 Yellowcard  :  Ocean Avenue
2004 Jet  :  Are You Gonna Be My Girl
2004 Franz Ferdinand  :  Take Me Out
2004 Three Doors Down  :  Kryptonite
2005 Coldplay  :  Speed of Sound
2005 Killers  :  Mr. Brightside
2005 Foo Fighters  :  Best of You
2006 Snow Patrol  :  Chasing Cars
2007 Weird Al  :  White and Nerdy
2007 Weird Al  :  Trapped in the Drive-Thru
2008 Radiohead  :  Reckoner
2008 They Might Be Giants  :  Seven Days of the Week
2009 Weezer  :  The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
2009 The Beatles  :  Across The Universe
2009 Johnny Cash  :  Sunday Morning Coming Down
2010 Arcade Fire  :  We Used To Wait
2010 Presidents OTUS  :  Peaches
2010 Mountain Goats  :  Going to Georgia
2011 Arcade Fire  :  The Suburbs

How the states got their shapes on history channel

Just let me know that 'Transylvania' is latin for 'after the woods' and the area once earmarked in VA to be called that got turned into Kentucky.

Watching 'La jetée' on Netflix

since we all know how effective the court systems are.

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html

"(The court is saying) we would rather opt on the side of saying if the police act wrongfully in entering your house your remedy is under law, to bring a civil action against the officer."

by the way, any idea how much hassle it would be to do that, when you're not the one who acted illegally in the first place?  estimates?

Its funny cause it's true.

Thank you the smoking gun worlds dumbest criminals

"If step two of your plan is running away from your crime in a Darth Vader mask, your step one was terrrrrible"

Oooooh yeah. Except for ketchup.