Inside Doug's Head

It is never too late to become wise.

Tonight, Christmas Eve, after rewatching A Christmas Carol for the 400th time, I learned a valuable lesson: you should ask the people you care about if they have any crippled children. Apparently, people sometimes have crippled children, and they don’t want anyone to find out, so they don’t voluntarily talk about them or let them go out in public. Forget trying to casually work the question into your conversation. You have to come straight out and ask them, “Do you have any crippled children?” If they say no, don’t offer to cripple one of their kids.

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Cryptocurrency and the collapse of FTX are all over the news lately. It would be stupid of me to not to try to cash in on the exploding non-fungible token market. The NFT market is metaphorically exploding; the tokens are not literally exploding, and they aren’t even literally tokens. They are just numbers, and numbers by themselves are morally unbiased and generally not amusing, notwithstanding the comical outliers of 69 and 420 that are popular among the elite crowd of big brains. Not me, though. Personally, I find all numbers equally defined on the number line. Am I being negative, or am I left of zero?

In 2011, I spent a few months mining Bitcoin and managed to make a tidy profit of $0.25 for my efforts, but I am not considering investing real spendable US dollars in a market that is powered by a random number generator backed by the hollow promises of paid celebrity endorsements. No, today I am going to do something completely different. Something that has never been done before.

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Typical on your side of the park but I think that’s what you want me when I do that it doesn’t matter what you want it is like a big deal and you can get a new phone and you don’t get to it but you don’t know where you want to go to Dallas you don’t have internet connection to get internet connection to internet connection internet connection to stop for internet connection.

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