If anyone is interested in learning about our adventures and how we approached home schooling this year, check out this chat with Princey…

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Van Life - Leaving Fiat Behind And Taking the Kids Out Of School! Daz Bea. #578

Once Bitten! A Bitcoin Podcast. · Episode

Check out my score: 878! At https://spider.otherstuff.ai Check out more games daily this december at https://advent.otherstuff.ai/ @Other Stuff

Year 3 and Year 6 of school done and dusted. Homeschooling is way more accessible and easier than you think.

100+hrs in the water (I didn’t log every session) Went from foamie to a 7’6 mini mal. Went from a full kook to still-a-kook-just-not-quite-full-kook I don’t think there is anything in this world that comes close to surfing. Only 3 weeks left on this epic adventure before I have to head home to no surf, crocodiles and killer jellyfish.

From TheBitcoinAdviser @Daz B and @Seb Bunney have generously agreed to serialize their book, B is for Bitcoin, on The Bitcoin Adviser blog. Chapter 1 is live now: content.thebitcoinadviser.com/blog/b-is-for-… Subscribe to the blog and get every new chapter delivered straight to your inbox - completely free!

As my good friend @btcschellingpt is known for saying, the fuck-up-fairy paid me a visit and it nearly cost me some corn. Yes, this is embarrassing, yes I should have and do know better, but a moment of complacency nearly bit me hard, but the lesson is too important not to share.

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After 7.5months off exploring this amazing country it is back to the fiat mine for this guy. It’s been a helluva ride. Can’t wait until this becomes the norm. Bitcoin has given me that hope.’

Five years ago and still one of my favourite pics.

Not bad!!!! So many kms (over 35,000) and so much left to see

Excited for the day when this randomly connects to someone. I’m check every day.

Coming up to our 150th caravan site over 200+ nights living in the caravan… Over 32,000km travelled… We just made it back to QLD after spending majority of this time outside our beloved home state… What a ride…. A few more months in the van now but less moving around and no more big drives until December at least. God I love Bitcoin.

Not bad….not bad at all

I love AI. Honestly, I do. I use it every day—I’m even using it right now to help me write this post. It’s replaced my search engine, plans our travels, helps untangle thoughts, spot patterns between seemingly unrelated things, and yes—I’ve even benefited from a little vibe-coding (don’t judge me). But there’s one thing about AI that absolutely drives me nuts: its overconfidence. It’s cringe, in the same way a guy I used to work with—let’s call him Joel—was cringe. Joel was undeniably smart. He knew just enough about almost everything to sound convincing, which often gave people the (false) impression he was an expert. He was your classic Reddit warrior: hyper-argumentative, knew enough to be dangerous, but rarely had the depth to back it up. I’m admittedly a bit anally autistic—read: obsessive about accuracy—and on a handful of topics, I’d consider myself genuinely knowledgeable. So it became a sport: catching Joel confidently spouting half-truths on subjects he clearly didn’t fully grasp. He wasn’t dumb—just way too sure of himself. Not knowing something isn’t the problem. Pretending you do? That’s the problem. There’s real humility—and value—in saying, “I’m not sure, but I think it could be this.” That’s how real conversations, discoveries, and learning happen. But don’t cosplay as an expert unless you are one. And that, my friends, is my beef with AI. It’s Joel. It’s smart. It’s useful. But it’s also way too confident, even when it should really shut up. I’ve caught it out more times than I care to count, speaking with the swagger of certainty when it really should’ve said, “Look, I might be off here…” Tread with caution. AI might be useful, but like Joel at the Friday arvo smoko table, be prepared to call out: “Mate, no. Just no. You’re wrong. Stop being a douche”. Your AI will thank you for it, (legit it usually does).

Gotta respect the hustle

Righto… Now I’m Bloody Cold

We just audioread The Martian while crossing the nullabor. I made the realisation that as someone with engineering training, I’m going to have to fill some serious gaps in my chemistry-game before I can go to Mars. Solid book. Great part of the world to audioread it.

I have not posted on our adventures for quite a while. Sorry. Stony point / Mornington Phillip Island Torquay Great Ocean Road Warrnambool Mount Gambier Robe Victor Harbor Brighton/Glenelg (Adelaide) Then a big big drive from Adelaide to Esperance (WA) with overnight stops Whyalla, Ceduna, Border Village, Fraser Range Station. Now in Esperance and holy WOW. This place is one of the most beautifully spectacular places I have ever been to. We had wifey’s mum fly into Adelaide for a week which was nice for everyone feeling a bit home sick. Boys dropped their school work again for a couple of weeks and we caught them up in a couple of decent sessions. Both still going well with it all. Photo drops coming soon. For now… Esperance.

Good Friday: Hot Water System Pressure Relief Valve replacement…. What else would you rather be doing?