David Hurley (@hirohurl)
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HiveSuite Chess: Beer versus Bot ... Player versus Time!
https://play.3speak.tv/embed?v=hirohurl/6qxsxdsx I cracked open the last Kirin Ichiban Shibori of the evening and played a couple of 3-minute Blitz games against the HiveSuite "Master" Chess bot - ...
Playing Chess on HiveSuite and Sharing the Results on Snapie
https://play.3speak.tv/embed?v=hirohurl/2rpnmtue I've been spending a bit of time during August playing games on HiveSuite.app - I've played quite a bit of Ludo and Asteroids, as well as the tank g...
Satsman's Auto Army Builder Is About to Get Busy
https://play.3speak.tv/embed?v=hirohurl/7pao9jrv I made this video earlier today to take a closer look at one of the most talked-about benefits of becoming a Pro Max Founding Member of Satsman: the...
Using Satsman to Introduce My Audience to Snapie and Hive
https://play.3speak.tv/embed?v=hirohurl/2qvo3a55 In this video I explain how I’m using the Snapie.io microblogging platform alongside Satsman to earn a little extra crypto from something I’m alread...
The Blood-Boltered Herd Splinterlands Guild Now Has A Monster Library!
The Blood-Boltered Herd has been brawling other Splinterlands guilds for sixteen months now, but I, the gink who started the guild, have only just realized that the guild has a library! Or, more co...
On Reading the First English Translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
A couple of months ago I started reading an English translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, but I found it hard going. Perhaps it was the translation, but more likely it was jus...
My First 8 Months Earning Bitcoin As A Satsman "Pro Maxer"...
https://play.3speak.tv/embed?v=hirohurl/eshjg6w0 I joined Satsman towards the end of December 2025. Since then, I've earned a total of 346,000 sats on the platform. This isn't something that has re...
Is Satsman Pro Max Worth It? My Results After 7 Months...
https://play.3speak.tv/embed?v=hirohurl/p3vwlngf I've been earning satsoshi with Satsman as a Pro Max member for seven months now, so here's my latest video showing my own results and my thoughts o...
Today, I Gave Away My England Shirt
It's not what you might think... Yes, I got up at 3:50am here in Japan to watch England lose to Argentina in the World Cup semi-final, and a few hours later I gave away my England shirt, but NOT be...
The Mythic Patterns Hidden in Shakespeare's Plays, According to Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was an English poet with a deep sense of the "shamanic" power of myth. He believed he had uncovered a structural mythic pattern in fourteen or fifteen of Shakespeare's mature...
While teaching, I learn from my student
Two classes I teach at a vocational college in Hiroshima are English Literature and Public Speaking. Several students attend both classes and today I'll talk about one of those students and what sh...
Iroha Karuta 21: Adding Insult to Injury
The twenty-first syllable in the iroha hiragana sequence is na (な), represented in both of my two iroha karuta sets by the same proverb: > 泣き面に蜂 > Naki tsura ni hachi or, in fuller form: > 泣き面に蜂が刺す...
If I were Keir Starmer, this is what I'd do...
He he, this is the moment when I start to (kind of) "root for" one, the Right Honourable Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Prime Minister (of the U.K.), and offer him some rich Machiavellian advice. Actuall...
Fat Man at the Station: A Short Story by My 16-Year-Old Self
When I was sixteen I left school and spent two years commuting to a College of Further Education to study A levels. The college was in Tonbridge, a town in Kent, England. To get there I had to catc...
Iroha Karuta 20b: Of Cats and Coins
In my previous post about the Japanese Iroha Karuta I looked at the proverb the Angel™ deck uses for the twentieth syllable in the "iroha" sequence, which is "ne" (ね): 念には念を入れよ (nen ni wa nen o ire...