Burned 1,000 calories and checked Nordic skiing off the bucket list!

With BTC's exchange rate ending 2025 down 6%, the 4 year cycle of 3 up years followed by 1 down year is officially broken. On the bright side, Bitcoin has never seen 2 down years in a row. Let's just hope that pattern isn't broken in 2026!

At the beginning of 2025 I predicted an all-time high for wrench attacks. Unfortunately, that prediction came true.

I'm just trying to read a Coinbase blog post. Enshittification intensifies!

Realized today that one of the reasons Pluribus is a fascinating mystery is the same reason Luke Dashjr is a fascinating character. You see, neither the Pluribus nor Luke are capable of lying. Or at least, that's what they claim... But when you delve deeper, you realize that they both perpetrate an incredible amount of deception, and they do so via what any normal person would call a "lie of omission." As such, Pluribus is a captivating mystery show because you're constantly trying to figure out how the hive mind is being deceptive while still answering all of the questions from the protagonists honestly.

How it feels to decrease your tax bill by donating low cost basis BTC to charities that further advance the development of Bitcoin:

If body positivity was really a thing, shouldn't we be seeing more ozempic shaming?

If you're looking for a game that forces your kids to cooperate with each other, check out Split Fiction!

Split Fiction for Nintendo Switch 2 - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Split Fiction and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

The greatest Christmas movie of all time is Trading Places.

Alas, my powerball ticket didn't win. Oh well, Merry Christmas!

This is pretty neat: Dynamic Foveated Rendering is a significant algorithmic performance boost for rendering VR apps that uses eye tracking to only bother rendering the area of the scene that your eyes are focused upon.

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Now available: Dynamic Foveated Rendering with Bigscreen Beyond 2e

Bigscreen Beyond 2e now has DFR for major performance improvements in VR games like iRacing, DCS World, and Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Who do I need to bribe to get a long term visa to hop around Europe for more than 3 months? None of the available options seem to fit my bill. Even the digital nomad visas seem to want a rental or lease agreement...

My biggest takeaway from experimenting with peptides that stimulate testosterone production is that I'm already enough of an asshole when my testosterone levels are on the low end of the range.

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