At Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin for Coldplay: Music of the Spheres! 🎶
Family selfie on Paoli.
Walking around Paoli, Wisconsin. Photos take with Project Indigo and processed in Lightroom on iPhone.
My cousin @quinntchrest is speed-running the @POAPChallenge today! 🤩
Giant flower.
Milk jugs.
Tammy’s has declared Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream the best — specifically This $&@! Just Got Serious®! We visited the Monroe Street location in Madison to have some direct from the source.
Gold Rush at Escape in Time
We solved the Gold Rush room at Escape in Time in Madison today. The room is rated hard and we definitely hit a couple of spots where we needed a clue and felt pretty stumped. But even with that, we solved the room with 13m 15s remaining on the clock. We thought the location was great and loved that the entrance is a Candy Shop puzzle room that you need to get through to check in for your game! Room 73!
We had a fun afternoon with Madison Adventure Tours exploring a 9-mile loop around town and hearing the history of various locations. The e-bikes were great and made the tour just fun and comfortable.
Emerged from water
Saw this prompt and wanted to give it a try.
A black and white close-up portrait with visible water droplets and small bubbles on the face like the subject just emerged from water. The mood should feel intense and cinematic, with a dark, minimal background.
Looks really intense to me. I’m not so sure it looks like me, but it does look a lot like my Grandpa to me. Oh wait, maybe I’m just old!? 😬
See my cousin Quinn’s.
A brand new AI startup with great pedigree and a $12 billion valuation.
Thinking Machines Lab, a buzzy AI startup founded by Mira Murati, raised $2bn in new capital, valuing the firm at $12bn. Ms Murati has recruited an impressive roster of researchers from OpenAI, where she was previously chief technology officer. That helped to persuade Nvidia and AMD, two giant chipmakers, to invest, even though the firm currently lacks much of a strategy (or revenue). — Economist, World in Brief, July 16, 2025
These numbers make the “dot com” bubble look like nothing.
I’ve been getting great responses from Claude lately and using it even more than ChatGPT. I’m wondering if ChatGPT’s memory feature doesn’t make it a little “over fit” to the user. Claude seems to have an easier time coming up with fresh ideas. So interesting.
Delicious smashburgers tonight. Everything else as dialed in and just right! 🍔🍔🍔
Look up. 🌳
It makes me super nostalgic that digg is back on the web — my profile. I felt compelled to order a shirt in celebration. 🎉
I submitted POAP2RSS to the POAP Directory of apps that extend the POAP ecosystem. 🤞
Absolutely incredible valuation — first to $4,000,000,000,000.
Nvidia became the first company to reach a market capitalisation of more than $4trn. The chipmaker has prospered despite concerns about Mr Trump’s tariffs and the rise of Chinese artificial-intelligence firms. Shares in the American company soared by almost 3% on Wednesday before falling slightly. Nvidia’s rise has been rapid. It only hit a valuation of $1trn in 2023. — The Economist, World in Brief, July 10th 2025
And I thought NVDA was overvalued 2 years ago. Wow.
Dark Clouds. Go United! ⚽️
With the help of POAP2RSS combined with rssrssrssrss.com and a new micro.blog account at @POAPChallenge I’ve completely revamped how activity is shared for this fun summer scavenger hunt I created called 612 POAP Challenge. Check it out, particularly if you are near Minneapolis! 🤩