Category: General

I’ve got into the bad habit of eating out for lunch when I’m working. Eating out at lunch is pretty expensive. No big deal, until you have a new car payment to worry about. I’ve decided to break myself of the habit, now that I’m once again car poor. (Never like those payments.)

My first step was buying myself a thermal lunchbox and some of those thin freezer packs to keep frozen and cold lunches cold until lunchtime. Now the hard part.

What do I buy or make that keeps me from getting food fatigue? Cup-of-noodles is good for once every other week. Leftovers sounds like a good idea, unless you have a house full of teenagers. Then, you don’t have leftovers.

Food fatigue will **ALWAYS** result in a relapse into eating out for lunch. I need variety, and only have a passing interest in “healthy” lunches. It had better taste good, or I’ll opt for the milkshake and fries.

I tried googling lunch ideas for work lunches, but google thinks I have two hours to prep my lunch every day, so I can spend 10 minutes eating it. I need extremely simple ideas that I have time for.

So here are realistic ideas that I can pick from. I’ll add to it as I come up with more.

Sandwich and chips
* PB&J … mmmm, I like
* cold cuts with cheese and lettuce/tomato
* tuna … nice with pickle relish

TV Dinners & pot pies

Noodles

Pop-top canned soups with crackers

Hard boiled eggs w/ a sprinkling of pepper and salt

Frozen burritos or chimichangas

Make a fancy salad with eggs or chicken

Make a fancy meal on the weekend and reserve two lunches from it
* homemade chili with lots of cheese on top
* steak and potatoes
* potato bar
* homemade soup
* grilled chicken and rice
* some new recipe

Have some ideas, throw them my way in the comments section. If I use it for my own lunches, I’ll add it to my list.

Author’s Note: Lot’s has happened. Klaytn is now Kaia. It got renamed. All the links are old, but I’m going to keep this page around for historical info.

As the Klaytn blockchain community grows, it gets harder and harder for me to keep track of interesting Klaytn related links. I am putting a few in this post, just so I can remember to look at them later.

Klaytn Home Page

This is mostly marketing spin and doesn’t get updated much. I check it occasionally hoping for news and updates, but usually am disappointed.

Klaytnscope

Watch the Klaytn blockchain grow in real time. Also, search the Klaytn blockchain for block numbers, account addresses,  transaction hashes, token names, and token symbols.

Klaytn Wallet

A wallet for Klaytn with enough disclaimers to make me feel completely unsafe using it, so I don’t. Using on a testnet without any real money involved should be fine for development and testing purposes.

Klaytn IDE

IDEs are a developer thing. Klaytn uses the Solidity language, like Ethereum does, for developing Blockchain apps.

Klaytn Docs

Even though Klaytn comes from South Korea, they kindly provide an English version of their Klaytn devolopers documentation.

Klaytn Staking Guide

This is a YouTube video, and getting a bit old, so follow at your own risk.

Klaytn Videos on YouTube

Lots of news, opinions, info on Klaytn. Unfortunately, most of it is in Korean. Look around and you’ll find videos in English, though.

KLAY/USDT on Gate.io

Great place to check the current price of Klaytn.

Klaytn is a cryptocurrency and a staking-based blockchain. Klaytn has major corporate backing for development and marketing. Klaytn adopts the best of Ethereum and adds to it. Klaytn aims to one-up Ethereum in every way. Klaytn even adopted Ethereum’s Solidity language as its main blockchain development language.

The big difference between Ethereum and Klaytn is that Klaytn has massive consumer penetration in South Korea that Ethereum has not achieved anywhere on Earth. This is due to the internet giant, Kakao.

I have little interest in the price of the Klaytn cryptocurrency. I admit passing interest as Klaytn skyrockets from its debut price of $0.11 on Gate.io, but I am no financial consultant.

I am, however, a seasoned Software Engineer with several decades of experience including much experience with the Ethereum blockchain, so I find Klaytn as a technology very exciting. It appears that anything Ethereum’s blockchain can do, Klaytn can do.

Klaytn provides transparency and immutability, like any useful blockchain. Applications are written to incorporate this transparency and immutability as a feature, like an app might include email, chat, or databases as a feature. To use a cooking metaphor, you don’t eat cinnamon by itself, but it tastes great when combined with other ingredients in a recipe.

Use cases for Klaytn in applications include currency (duh), supply chain validation, authentication, trading, voting systems, certificates, diplomas, deeds to property, car titles, and crowd funding. Because the Klaytn blockchain is immutable and transparent, you can use it in any application that requires proof that no one has forged false documents or lied about past agreements.

How could this help modern society? Imagine using Klaytn for a national voting system that could be completely audited by anyone for fraud. Oh, there are going to be some people completely against that one 😉

A warning to new developers and CTOs looking to create blockchain apps: Test thoroughly! It is very easy to blow through $100,000 dollars worth of crypto in seconds if you write bad Solidity code. Explaining to your CEO where his entire budget went and that it can’t come back is not something you want to experience. Reddit is full of dev comments begging for their crypto to be returned when they screwed up.