Recent content by uncgriff

Thanks. I will share my single most prized possession. This is the silver battle of the Nile medal. After Napoleon invaded Egypt (where the Rosseta stone was incidently found) Admiral Nelson and his fleet found and destroyed the French fleet moored at Akibar bay at the mouth of the Nile. This...

For the last 15 years I have tried to get into Wilson library to see this. UNC has one of a handful of early copies of Napoleon's death mask on display in the North Carolina collection. For some reason every time I go the library has been closed (likely because its always for games at night or...

I think it's a bit comical when people try to dance around cryptocurrency and bitcoin and say they aren't really intended to be currency when that's literally their name. The issue is their actual initial use case was solved by venmo, PayPal etc without disrupting the underlying banking system...

If that is the case then why do you have to change Bitcoins to dollars to buy anything aside from a minute amount of internal Bitcoin transactions many if not most of which are illegal, scams, money laundering, tax evasion or other nefarious purposes. If Bitcoin were a true currency and not a...

The Guardian view on crypto’s latest crash: it reveals who pays the price for a failing economy | Editorial | The Guardian The Guardian view on crypto’s latest crash: it reveals who pays the price for a failing economy | Editorial The key to understanding crypto is that it has no “value” in...

Bitcoin crashes below $90k. I have a couple of friends who are banking their retirement on this ponzi scheme. I fully admit I don't understand it but I don't understand it. If it's really going to be worth over $1 million a coin as they have earnestly told me why is it not worth that now...

Everyone is focused on the governor and mayor races but this appears to me to be the real bell weather from last night and it should really spook the non insane members of the GOP. Hopefully this will force some movement on the shutdown.

Adding that the only people that seem to care anymore are the fools who think they will get rich quick with sports betting. I just shake my head at every fan dual advertisment but the reality is THAT is the new target audience. Not the loyal fans who consistently tailgated and put their butts...

College sports has been ruined beyond repair. Lifelong passionate fans like myself no longer give 2 shits. I will watch when convenient but will no longer work my life events around the UNC basketball schedule. And when I watch it is with a clinical detachment which is very odd to me and...

Never been. Flying out today. 15 days Tokyo, kyoto, Osaka. First big trip I have ever gone on where I did not have anything on my personal agenda. We are doing a Mt Fuji day trip, Hiroshima and omakase sushi Anything else I should definitely not miss?

Yeah. Disney currently makes money from people with YTTV who never watch their channels at all. Hard to believe they would walk away from that

I viscerally hate the fact that is the ACC. It took my quite awhile to figure out pitts logo

these are mostly Egyptian artifacts and a lot of scarabs and cylinder scrolls/seals. very common and we used to mark pots and other clay items to tell what was in them or who owned them. I have a very close friend who actually collected most everything I have shown here and he sold them to...