There's the good, the bad, and the ugly. I've heard it all about Blurt. It turns out that since my Steemit days, I had an account here with the rest of this beautiful community. So, here I am exploring your world. So far, I like what Blurt has to offer and I'd like to try and expand my crypto-blogging into this fine establishment.
Happy to be at Blurt
On Steemit, Hive, and now Blurt, I go by the username Scholaris. In the real world, my name is Felix Martinez. IRL, I work as a Engineer working in California. I'm currently moonlighting as a Senior Business Analyst. I decided to expand my skillset while I continue to work in this state to raise my employment options after the site I work at shuts down permanently.
Steemit
I started on Steemit blogging about STEM articles mostly. My career focused on power production so it was a no brainer for me to pursue the same topic. I learned about markdown, writing, and engagement while I developed my block on Steemit.
Tron
Some time after I wrote about 30'ish articles on STEM for Steemit, it appears an evil overlord named Justin Sun came to take over the platform.
Hive
A group of knowledgeable individuals broke from the Steemit blockchain to create Hive. I've been there ever since. I continued to write STEM articles there, but I also started venturing into the fantastic. Fiction became the name of the game and I've been experimenting with this area of writing.
I'll share with the group my most recent blogs related to story-telling before developing this craft further on Blurt and more.
Proof of Brain
I started writing fictional/factual pieces when I joined the #ProofofBrain community on Hive. On Hive, it is this community I find myself engagement with the most. I still dealt with Stem, but I starting going outside of my comfort zone with this group.
I started actively participating in their Word of the Week contest. I became a curator in this contest, as well as, assisting in the development of a rubric used to objectively grade about 30-40 articles per week. The contest goes on still today. The contest creator is on an extended hiatus and I'm managing in his place until his return.
Before Crypto
I served in the nuclear navy submarine program for just under 10 years. Five and a half years of my navy time was spent stationed on board the USS Albuquerque. It was a fast-attack submarine stationed at one of the US navy ports. It was a different world out there. My old ship is decommissioned now, so who knows where it's at.
Stay tuned to the end of this article and you'll be able to see some highlights of it in a special news reel.
In Conclusion
Thank you very much for following on with me during this introduction. I look forward to sharing and learning from everyone.
If you like this article, please consider upvoting, engaging, and following on with @scholaris!
Nuclear sub - few know that London has (had?) 2 nuclear reactors, both experimental but one was owned by the Royal Naval College - I assume decommissioned now as the premises bought by a univ.
welcome!
I would imagine it would have remained operational. It costs a pretty penny to decommission a nuclear reactor. And if it's used for testing purposes those puppies can run indefinitely with "affordable" upkeep. Thanks for the welcome!
Yes, which is why the reactor was still there. Long story but I had the cheek to investigate buying the place - not as a palatial home but for a museum of mathematics - there was also a lot of money in the UK at the time for new cultural centres. Anyway, I was only 2 years behind the curve (lmao) and the local university had already agreed to buy the Naval College. However... I knew it had a reactor and it probably cost as much to decommission as the premises.
https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/32/027/32027391.pdf
Was kinda funny that the people I spoke to thought this was some deep secret. My research at the time was in the history of science, which is full of secret research - some of which still hasn't gone public! :-)
Decommissioning can get quite expensive depending on the future use of the land. The technology exists to completely restore the land.
One area I worked at was a toxic waste dump back in the 50s and 60s. The US declared that area as a hazardous site back then and completely restored the area. It's a vast land of trees now. You'd NEVER know it was so polluted.
Decommissioning, though, takes a long time. For nuclear power plants, decommissioning will take decades and billions (USD) to restore to its original site.
Oh yeah, there's definitely a secret stigma to it all as well. Accessing the information isn't common at all even though a lot of it is public. However, like anything else in life, you almost have to be working in the industry to understand the information available.
Hey. Great to see you here on Blurt. You’re going to love it here. Very friendly group of bloggers .. creators, curators, investors and developers. Lots of experiments happen here. You can add the #helloblurt tag to your introduceyourself post to get an upvote from @helloblurt
Thanks. It's good to "see" a friendly face. Some pretty happy people here. I like the no DV atmosphere.
Welcome to Blurt, sorry about the image server issues we are having currently. I remember SteemSTEM fondly, I was business partners with Reggamuffin for a time, he and Suesa were involved with SteemSTEM also.
Hope you enjoy Blurt!
Server issues are like the weather. You never know what could happen. I'm enjoying Blurt, thank you.
Oh lala! What a great story. Receive the warmest welcome to this Blurt family, we will be delighted to read your adventures. I am also in many chains and the ones that are missing, we are happy to have you here. I hope you enjoy your stay with us as much as I do, and if you have any questions we are here to help you in the discord or with a comment. I send you good wishes and good vibes. :)
Thank you for the warm wishes. I look forward to sharing STEM and even fictional/non-fiction pieces with the community.
I would be happy to read your stories. Take this opportunity to invite you to meet @newvisionlife is an account that gathers content on topics about "living happily without thinking about age" if you like I'll wait for you there.
Good vibes.
Thank you very much. I look forward to it.
Well I'm new here too! Welcome to us! Hehe.
Yes, welcome to us! I'm looking forward to engaging with the community.
Awesome. Welcome aboard Sailor !
Thank you very much for the welcome.
Welcome to Blurt. ProofofBrain is also awesome. So far Blurt and ProofofBrain Brain are the best things to come out of the Graphene Blockchain Experiment. Splinterlands is pretty good too if you like to earn 70 % APR passive income.
Yeah, proof of brain is a pretty nice community. I'm enjoying their activities and contests. The creator wanted to make a place that was cool and where people enjoyed writing for the sake of it. I think he's succeeding in that endeavor.
Welcome to Blurt. Share your Original Photography with #blurtphoto tag for upvotes from the @blurtphoto Curation Project.
Thank you very much for the information. I'll remember and use it.
Welcome to Blurt. #blurtart
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Welcome to Blurt. Thanks @offgridlife for sharing his intro post.
Actually, it was offgridlife that prompted my emergence into this community.
He's such a great community builder!
Yeah, he snagged me. I had no hope, lol
I remember your username from Hive/Steem day. Good to see you here as well :)
Thank you kindly. I'm glad to be here.
Congratulations, your post has been curated by @r2cornell-curate. Also, find us on Discord
Felicitaciones, su publication ha sido votado por @r2cornell-curate. También, encuéntranos en Discord
Thank you. I appreciate the support.
Welcome @scholaris!!!
It is nice to see you here and I am happy you will enjoy your time here on Blurt.
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