Peter Askew

i ship onions i fill ranch jobs i can barely code i share expiring domain names (that you can buy) i was laid off a lot (years ago) so i became an entrepreneur i'm not supposed to be an entrepreneur i'm glad i am this is me in a vidalia onion packing shed

@CaptLowry Hunley Museum in Charleston in excellent

GEORGE E. DIXON a COIN, and SHILOH George Dixon was a steamboat Engineer living in Mobile, Alabama when the War came. He was already a member of a pre War militia Company that became part of the 21st Alabama Infantry. His sweetheart, Queenie Bennett, gave him a twenty dollar gold piece, double eagle coin, for good luck, as a token of her affection, and to help get him out of any problem that might come up. The 21st Alabama was sent to Corinth, Mississippi in March of 1862, to help stop the Union troops who had landed at Pittsburg Landing, about three miles from a little Church named Shiloh. Dixon was of course with the Regiment, with his good luck coin in his left front pocket. Confederate Commander Albert S. Johnston had only one chance to save Corinth and the Memphis-Charleston Railroad. He had to surprise attack Grant's Army before Union Commander Buell was able to march over from Nashville and unite with Grant. Johnston and the whole Confederate army marched toward Pittsburg Landing. The 21st Alabama fought early on the morning of April 6, in Spain field, at the Battle of Shiloh. Dixon was shot there, in the coin. The bullet glanced off the coin and went through his hip, and out the back. From Shiloh, Dixon went back to Corinth to a hospital. From there he went home to Mobile on wounded furlough. There at home in Mobile, Dixon got interested in a new Confederate weapon called a Submarine. Dixon transferred to the crew, and he became the Commander of the sub when it was shipped to Charleston to try to break the Union blockade of that port. In February of 1864, the Hunley Submarine went out one night, and it became the first successful Submarine ever. They sank the Union ship the Housatonic. The only problem was, the Hunley never returned from that mission. When the Hunley was finally recovered, there were two pressing questions. How did the crew die, and did Dixon have that gold coin on him. It is thought now that the crew was so badly affected by the concussion of their own blast, that their hearts stopped, and/or their lungs were affected. They were all found in their seats, and not struggling to get out. They died very quickly. George E. Dixon DID have a bent, twenty dollar gold piece, in what was left of his left pants pocket. It held a surprise. When he went back to Mobile after Shiloh, he must have taken it to a jeweler to have it engraved. The jeweler sanded part of one side of the coin smooth, and he engraved what Dixon told him to: Shiloh April 6th 1862 My life preserver G.E.D. After the recovery of the Hunley, the crew's remains received a hero's burial there in Charleston in 2004. You too can have an exact copy of this coin, like I do. Go look on the Hunley site online. They sell for about $18. If you go to Shiloh with me, I will probably take you down to Spain field, and there, I will tell you this story. Then I will show you a picture of Queenie, several pictures of the coin, and then I will hand you my copy of Dixon's coin.

@Decafquest I heard he was there selling his niche tea x.com/searchbound/st…

yesterday i cracked a nietzschean joke at a conference in silicon valley, uber founder was in the crowd.

@SahilPanhotra @dvassallo it's so good : ) Louis CK later admitted that *he* was the guy on the airplane who got upset when the internet went out after 5 secs 😅 youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q…

@searchbound @dvassallo ohh sorry i rarely watch comedy shows

"You’re sitting in a chair — IN THE SKY" Everything is amazing and nobody's happy

@SahilPanhotra @dvassallo he's referring to an excellent standup comedy bit by Louis CK : )

@dvassallo "You’re sitting in a chair — IN THE SKY" is this the new kind of AI slop?

@Shpigford 😍🧅🙏🧅🙏

just released dither, a vector dithering tool! dither.neato.fun it's open source and has an illustrator plugin! github.com/Shpigford/dith…

@justinacton interesting idea, although I'm always leery on adding more extensions to my browser...

@searchbound I’ve thought about something similar from a corporate job perspective. Thought is to do a chrome extension with a dashboard of sorts that shows as default for every new tab opened. I’m guessing it would get better performance than a home page. Thoughts?

an old marketing exercise I don't see utilized much these days: ➡️ encouraging users to set your website/app as their browser homepage we used this tactic HEAVILY in the late 90's / early startup world (and it worked) I'm looking into ways to use this for RanchWork the game is to present unique / helpful info on each refresh/reload. RanchWork can do this with new job listings just thinking out loud.

@hrishio done this as well 😅

@searchbound Still loving going to apple store and leaving my website open in the browser 😀

@Shpigford app'solutely not : )

think a .app domain is ever worth $2000?

@chasedownleads boss - I passed this billboard today and thought of you:

Me when it comes to clogging toilets within 3 miles of my plumbing business

visited Fort Pulaski here in SAV today. neat history: structure took 18 yrs to complete; w/ 25M bricks; completed in 1847 walls up to eleven feet thick of solid brick considered "as strong as the Rocky Mountains" (at the time) utilized by the South during USA Civil War built to withstand cannonballs from smoothbore cannons [img left] the North used (new tech) rifled cannon artillery [img right] & easily breached the walls in 1862 40,000 LBS of gunpowder was held in its powder magazine the acting confederate Colonel feared his 385 men would "be blown to perdition by our own powder", so he surrendered the fort. there are still shots lodged & exposed in the brick exterior wall

a fort

@cyber_molecule it's .com or nothing for me.

@searchbound go for .io, you can get a short easy to pronounce, i got mapster .io

I just want to make my domain absurdly easy to remember, so when a customer glances at it, it's auto-stored in their skull with little to no effort needed. Then repeat visits go brrr.

@Britannica your hero, @chasedownleads

How did a publicist help end one of the most famous crimes in history?

@TheSoloCTO if you keep calling yourself a peasant, it's likely you'll become a peasant.

@searchbound just checked. solocto.com is available for $1695. I guess ill remain on my gumroad subdomain like a peasant

@TheSoloCTO they're lots cheaper when you buy them from expired domain auctions : )

@searchbound this is why every good .com is either taken or costs more than most peoples first product will ever make

@TonyLStewart just an important as before... LLMs drive me traffic (just like search, social, email, etc).. I prefer that traffic glance at my domain, commit to memory, and then visit me direct next time (in a perfect world)

@searchbound What are your thoughts on domain names with uprising usage of LLMs ?

@nickgraynews @msg take these valuations with grain of salt though, as this is more art than science.

@nickgraynews @msg see if these 2 tools help: saw.com/appraisals atom.com/domain-apprais…

@searchbound can you point my friend @msg to get a price estimate on a domain he owns? He just needs some sort of valuation on a cool AI-related domain to use for a new business incorporation