Ian Vaughan

It was a glorious day for climbing hills and waterfalls in Wales today.

Dear UK, shut up already about democratic due process or it not being in a party manifesto anyone voted on and just be grateful for this free digital id that’s kindly been arranged for you - It’ll fix everything, pinky promise! Tony Blair’s son’s already built it, it’s going to be great, you’ll love it! The automated lottery war conscription function is a total peach. Enjoy your servitude you ingrates.

In recent weeks, I’ve returned to learning some guitar pieces that I learned (some incompletely) over 20 years ago. It’s amazing to experience how the brain slowly remembers something that it previously knew - the magic of muscle memory as it recovers the ability to play passages I’d thought completely forgotten and to string the movements together. But it’s also made me think a lot about the passing of time and the past. I’ve found my mind serving me up memories of people and places from around that time that I hadn’t thought about for years, I guess the brain keeps it all stored together? I remembered a line from a Vonnegut book I read around then too ‘Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time’.

I’ve been trying out

and that is a really great NOSTR messaging app and already much more. It’s exciting to see where this goes.

Only found out about

today and am trying it out, looks promising.

My new guitar body has arrived, it was a real bargain. Time to start to build a classic Telecaster. I’m really looking forward to this project.

This was a really good episode, very enjoyable chat. I’ve been listening to the show for a few months and wondering what the hell the Meshtadel was that you keep talking about, it always sounds amazing. I was thinking ‘maybe these guys are doing something really cool with meshtastic nodes or some real, resilient off grid comms kind of stuff?’ But the wonderful irony of Max saying that the Meshtadel is in fact ‘just a Telegram group’ about 2 minutes after calling most bitcoiners LARPers, was too good not to pass comment on.

https://fountain.fm/episode/xVgogW64mi1ILPxGDOpd

Yesterday I heard

on

. It was a very interesting episode, so I went back and listened to the first two that I hadn’t heard either - all really great chats. I want to buy some of that timber! Also, can you CNC and is that a service you’ll offer? I’m keen to make a guitar this year and would really like to see it cut all the way from being a plank of wood this time.

Nice song, great vocal and guitar work, Nathan.

https://fountain.fm/track/UV67RkTZiQLV7ASRKqXU

Happy New Year all. Here’s to 2025 and to regular people rediscovering their own agency and taking control of their lives.

Merry Christmas all. A Christmas wish - no more AI shite music. If Bitcoin is going to be at the root of a renaissance, I hope it helps support a revival of the music studio, with pools of talented people being paid for working with bands to make truly great records again. Music for the future generations of humanity.

Nearly Halloween and the timeline is full of spooks being spooky.

hi Joe, it was me that wrote the V4V pdf you were sent. Sorry I’ve been quiet for a while. If we can get this Liverpool music festival to fly next summer, you are definitely invited, all the best!

I’m really enjoying this book - still a chunk to read yet though. Should I be worried by the 666 in the ISBN code

?

I made some bread this morning and it turned out well. Might try my hand at rebranding and ruining a social network next.. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/3d07b20b1ea61dc920fe78f29b37d7af0c2dcabaaf501cebed571db050d3f700.jpg

Fantastic visit today to Beeston Castle in the sunshine, with a view for 40 miles all around. Thousands of years of human history at that site. It’s always been adversarial. Builders always have and always will build.

Taking a break from repetitive, overlong and dull Bitcoin podcasts and listening to a Dostoyevsky audio book instead. What a welcome upgrade in density and quality it’s bringing me.

I finally made the time to go back and complete the Bitcoin for Developers course on the Saylor Academy. It’s a great course. Useful module summary videos now too from #[0]​. Thanks to all involved in putting it together.