Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Everything Must Go!

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Well, folks, I hate to go all Crazy Eddie on you, but I’ve got a neurotic fixation on selling the remaining few pieces from ticker.art. We’ve sold 90% of our creations but as of this writing there are seven items left in our First Edition, and I wanted to make you a special offer to goose you into getting one of these NFTs.

The offer is simple: buy one of these, and send me your receipt, and I’ll immediately send you back:

  1. Whatever gas fees you paid (up to $100), and
  2. 0.02 ETH

In other words, assuming you don’t pay more than $100 in gas, you’ll pay 0.05 flat for any of these items. I’ll honor this bargain until the end of Sunday, and I’d be delighted to be totally sold out. If not, no big deal; they’ll remain available at their normal price, and I’m sure every single one will eventually be added to someone’s collection.

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Abandoned Success Story

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There is an old saying: “Art is never finished. Only abandoned.”

And, thus, we are at the end of our ticker.art project. It was introduced on the 1st of this month, and here we are, 19 days later, and we’re totally finished. Pretty nice!

It has been, in my estimation, a terrific success, and the majority of the pieces have been snapped up already. There are 10 left, however, so I encourage you to check those out.

At this point, I shall let these beautiful creations live on as their own secondary market. Thank you, everyone!

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Pop Culture Required

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Something occurred to me today when I saw these adjacent stories:

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It seems assumed that every reader must know what the “red light/green light” reference is from Squid Game. And they know what Squid Game even is. Plus they understand the “Winter is Coming” reference, and they know it’s from Game of Thrones. Seriously, journalism seems to have become rather lazy, since it relies on all these pop culture memes are shorthand for any topic. C’mon, writers. Not ALL of us spend our waking hours watching this junk.

The Fantastic Four

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It’s hard to believe, but we’ve only got 8 tickers to complete for the ticker.art NFT project to be finished. That will wrap up the 60 of this “First Edition”, and then we’re going to turn our attention to a totally new NFT project.

Of the 52 symbols created so far, 48 are sold, and 4 remain, including – just completed – Apple. Below is an image of all four remaining tickers, and here are the specific links on OpenSea: WWE, WMT, AAPL, and GILD.

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Who Arted?

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For all the relentless teasing and snark good-natured ribbing I took for my creation of ticker.art, it’s been a marvelous success. I mean, it’s not going to shove CyberPunks aside, but I was worried I would sell precisely $0.00 of my own creations, when in fact out of 48 items so far, 46 have sold! Pretty shocking, I’ve got to say. Ticker.art is a hit!

One chap has become a complete ticker.art aficionado – this doesn’t even show all the items he’s acquired, and he’s the lucky duck who snapped up TSLA in the wee hours this morning when we finally finished it after literally sixteen iterations on the pieces (I’m quite exacting about this stuff).

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