20 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): Leah and I go on a walking tour of the city. The tour guide, Juliana, is great. I was especially interested to learn that many of the original settlers were Marranos with ongoing traditions like symbolically scoring pork before eating it. Also, schools here apparently don’t teach their own country’s […]
Day 46
Hierarchical, Deterministic Bitcoin Keys Are Really Neat
These aren’t new, they’re just new to me, and I think they’re really neat. Like most non-revolutionary technology, they solve a problem that wouldn’t have existed without the larger scope of that very same technology. Here’s a look at how they might be applied to a usecase with which I’m very familiar: cloud-based, brick-and-mortar point […]
Day 45
19 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): Leah and I go for pizza tonight to a place highly recommended by a blogger named desktodirtbag. He sounds trustworthy, right? It was the best pizza I’ve had in months. hah hah hah — oh wait, except for a pie we had in Buenos Aires that was quite legit. It […]
Day 44
18 Feb 2018 (Medellin, Colombia): Since we’re pretending to be “real” people in Medellin for the next few weeks, we go grocery shopping. And this store has surprisingly comfortable chairs (and a coffee station blocked by Blue Shirt and Sorta Impatient) from which you may casually watch the butcher prepare your meat. Groceries and a […]
Day 43
17 Feb 2018 (Palomino, Colombia): The food at the place we stayed was really surprisingly great. I wish I could have eaten a lot more of it and would definitely recommend. Anyway, I’m a lot better but still a far cry from 100%. I have a 90-minute car ride, two short flights, and another 60-minute […]
Day 42
16 Feb 2018 (Palomino, Colombia): I woke up yesterday morning (the 15th) with the distinct impression that I should not have eaten so much lobster the previous evening (the 14th). And then, before allowing that situation to fully resolve itself, I took lots of dramomine for spending the entire day on the road. Last night […]