i need to say this but can’t just put it anywhere
something i stumbled on few yrs back…
just got some data back from some research i’ve been doing since pre-covid
i discovered or invented (not sure which is used in this unique situation) a product to make the automated assembly industry perform 1.5-4x…. more/better/good(er)/best(est)
more efficient
by miles
imagine you make cars and to assemble a car costs you $500 per car
my product will make it so your spending $500 to assemble at least 2 cars but as many as 4 cars maybe more under stabilized conditions
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my brother hates when i tell this story. i kinda love it tho, only cuz i survived it.
the year: Late 1988 or Early 1989
the place: phoenix, az - my grandparents house
characters: me (6y) my brother (11y) grandpa (early 40's haha dont ask)
my grandpa was a character, to say the least. my grandma, still living on her own to this day, is a character too.
i say this because you must suspend all sense of what you have that is logical. you can't understand a story about my family if you're totally rooted in logic and facts. i love these people, and they should be documented.
young guns was a movie from 1988 that reached every millennial, whether they saw the film or not.
warren g's "regulate" borrows the famous starting line(s) of the song from that movie.
iconic was a good way to describe the movie at the time.
after the movie, my brother and I did what most kids did back then: wrestled, boxed, played sports in yards, and read a lot of comic books.
so after the movie ended, we were so pumped that we immediately started what i remember to be a version of cowboys and indians where no boundaries or rules are laid out and you just “play.”
the fight cloud we created moved throughout the unoccupied parts of the house, and eventually we found ourselves fighting in our grandparents bedroom.
my brother picks me up, suplexes me onto the bed, and in the aftermath he finds an orange gun under my grandpa's pillow
nbd, right 🤷♂️
i get to my feet to see my brother pointing the orange gun at my face from 2 feet away.
and ever so vividly, like it happened and my brain recorded it in HD to play for me on occasion, my brother lowers the gun to my feet and says, "Dance;" then pulls the trigger.
BANG!
a violent glowing fireball shot out of the barrel and hit the ground right in front of my feet and bounced into my chest before it bounced all over the room, leaving burn spots where ever it touched.
all that happened to me was, well, trauma, but other than that… nothin’, besides a few temporary blind spots anyway.
the house didn't burn down. that was nice.
but probably the craziest part of all of it is that not a single person questioned why my grandfather, a truck driver by trade and living in the desert, would have a flare gun meant for SOS on boats…. COCKED AND LOADED under his fuqn PILLOW.
my gramps passed away 2 days before my 18th bday and, as much as i understand life and loss, it pains me that i'm never going to be able to ask him any questions about any of these wild stories revolving around him. there were many.
i was just over there in az and saw the "evidence" left on some fabric my grandma had on the nightstand. haha had to take a pic.
chicken soup.
not sure i ever had a bad one.
tips on upgrading a regular batch of soup (2 versions: no budget & budget)
tip 1: use 2 chickens or 1 chicken w/ extra backs and wings you can get from the butcher
side note: (take the breast meat out earlier if you’re planning on eating it so it’s too dry, also do this if you want clean stock)
important: salt the water in the beginning but hold off on the seasonings til the end
stacking the soup to build the flavor: most soup veggies are fine but carrots & onions are a must, 1 lb per bird
onions are the foundation, carrots are the middle rung down to earth veg and
chicken is the depth.
tip 2: make your own noodles, raw is best for adding thickness
raw noodles (flour egg salt) add starch into the soup making it thicker
these tips (with or without the notes) will add a silkier soup broth
i’d like to explore with the broth but ngl it’s not cheap on cost or time so that ideas chilling on the shelf
post pics if you try this out yourself and show me what you got
last post before i take the boys to church (st john the baptist is the saint our day is dedicated to, other families may have have other saints on different days thru the year)
this right here is Burek. it’s delicious af!
sounds crazy but eat it with this drinkable yogurt that’s usually sold near by. danon reg is fine.
your life will have changed for the better, unless you measure that in cholesterol
you can find this if you live in a city or a truck stop, 🤷♂️, if your lucky.
pay no mind to the nonsense the the right, burek isn’t apples, it’s meat. (apple b****k is pita, long story)
next pic is of st. john
if youre greek you can stop reading here
about to get real about feta
you want the BEST feta? then get Bulgarian feta. i don’t know what they do in that country to make this so good, but my goodness UNESCO needs to drop everything they’re doing rn and preserve this cultural necessity.
i won’t talk about other fetas in public, but Bulgarian is the only feta you need
one of my favorite parts of the chaos is the quick satisfying meals. with all these ingredients around i made a killer spread
the fork and knives are used up, and sinks being used too
put all this stuff on a cutting board
gut an avocado
hard or soft boiled eggs
cornichons
green onion
hate mayo so i use greek yogurt
dill
og mustard seed, or dijon
salt n pepper
now chop cop.
spread it.
eat it.
now peel some potatoes.. 😬 😆
cookies.
this is a whole thing. like this is where my mom needs to be tested. she turns into fuqn she hulk if you try and steal these off a plate
my wifes been saving the “imperfections” for me 😊
now these look better than they are, imo - don’t kill me over
i like chocolate. i like ice cream.
everything here is filled with hazelnuts and jams which is kinda funny cuz they had no money to buy chocolate so they had stuff they could grow haha
nothing sexy about cabbage. but my goodness is it good when you cook it smoked ribs.
(quick story: the smartest person i know is my cousin, scientist & an all around jack of all trades. he loses a bet and has to eat nothing but cabbage for a month. it’s too early to confirm but i think he said he lost 30 lbs & keeps talking about having fixed his gut bacteria haha)
anyway, some people go half rice and half meat.
my mom always ditched the rice, i🙏 love that woman
i got three boys and they need protein, they get their rice with nigiri anyway.
Friday I came home from work.
Since then I've been prepping to cook today.
Cut over 100lbs of meat. Equal amounts of onions. 50 lbs of carrots.
So gald to have a break. Came to work to just have a normal workflow haha, partially jk
Tomorrow is my Slava. It's my favorite day of the year. A tradition that has been assigned to my family around 1000AD. Every year Jan 20 we get together and eat, drink, be merry.
We start prepping for in October by putting the cabbage to ferment, then smoke some pork loins and ribs in a smoker with some hardwood ( i like cherry wood )
My moms and wife start baking cookies right after the new year.
Truly a feast, but ngl im so busy that day i eat in fast and in hiding.
I'll do my best to share some pics. Things move so fast I don't ever think of pull the phone out.
Leaving work rn to head over the liquor store to buy some commodity booze and some special picks for the guests I know to pick their poison with verve.
If you know a serb you may have been to one.
Cheers Far Fam,
i use to self deprecate cuz i thought it was like polite or normal, but it’s not. your body hears the words that come out of your mouth, and not to mention - but i do - it makes normal people uncomfortable.
but know what, imma fuqn star bro
(burning like a sob, and if the universe comes together for me like it did for our sun, imma do some awesome stuff)
in my office rn and i just tossed a wad of paper at the far-trash-can and called it: “kobe” nothing but net.
spent all day making a website for the family company. turns out what was there prior had broken links and a defunct email address. it was just a giant heaping pile of elephant shit
showed my brother (love him but he hates me) & within a single minute he tried to pull me into an argument about the use of “family precision.” “it doesn’t make sense” says the guy that also said “i don’t know how to print from my computer” & “can you show me how to do percentages, i don’t know how to do it on this calculator”
i didn’t take the bait tho. Let him feel like he had input, & turns out the change is way better. so there, team work makes the dream work.
today i also reduced a shop-admin procedure from 2.5 - 3 hrs a day to 5 min. with no explanation. just as the procedure started i simply provided the answers so i dont have to do all the nonsense leg work. this is a game changer btw ha love it
and that’s how im going to take this company over and lead it into the future. using my experience, what my pops taught me, & pairing it with tech, it doesn’t matter if he understands it or not. he has the answers he needs to move on and let me get to work.
my issue before therapy was not knowing how to regulate my emotions of love, care, desire to succeed and support, my love for the team effort. now i feel like im calable, or dare i say, powerful! 💪
looking forward.
ps im building onchain in the background too 😏
watched weird science for the first time in a long time, it holds up and is a great movie
forgot how common nudity and making out were in 80s movies. made me reflect on how much things have changed and the vicissitudes of culture over time in regards yon being a man, father, patriarch.
i think it’s healthy to see this stuff outside of pornography, but if your a teenager today you’re definitely seeing it inappropriately. art matters a lot here.
aaaand THIS right here is why the next gen copper reserve will be BASED, no one is on xrp.
a little bit about the genesis reserve and xrpl
Genesis Reserve was launched using FirstLedger on XRPL.
xrpl is fast
it also is a vast wasteland of scammers and renegades.
having said that, there are some really great people I met on the network. some helped me at a time when i needed it and they even turned down an offer to compensate them. they're doing their part fighting the good fight. however, for the reserve; the network is too reliant on code. not enough builders on there. not enough of a structure.
i can see the push happening, but it's still really early on XRPL.
(if I can say how that its interesting that so many people my age and not on chain only know of BTC and XRP. "bro i dont get into crypto, but i got some ripple"
i don't know who is doing the marketing for them, but they are on a blockdag level marketing tier, kudos to them.)
the token was named SCRxrp. by launching it on firstledger i pretty much had no control over the token.
now the token are slowly being burned. 6570 tokens exit from the original 9296. now each token of SCRxrp is equal to 1.66 ounces of copper.
and like you see from the cast below, i cant even give it away.
so the NEXT GEN Copper Reserve is def BASED.
a little about the next gen reserve
the next gen reserve tho I want total control so that I can keep the integrity of the token. this isnt some decentralized play, it is centralized around a giant stack of copper, and I'm watching over it.
it will be a more sophisticated token that represents real copper. once i reach my benchmarks of getting listed I will want to reach out to real world businesses and incentivize them to use the token or at least accept it in commerce.
the goal: to make copper more accessible to consumers.
the solution: my NEXT GEN Copper Token
as for the SCRxrp token on XRPL... it will become a kind of utility token. the genesis reserve will alway be 682 lbs. it will NEVER go away.
well
i said it every year since week 3 in 2013
i’ll be a bears fan again but they need to win 1 playoff game
show me you care, then i’ll care again, but i’m not ruining most of my winter weekends anymore
so here we are 2026 and i just saw the bears win a palyoff game holy shit haha
bear down
i love chicago
