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Rick Janowski

President .Milwaukee Computer Society

are no shortages of choice.
Bitcoin exploded recently
Greetings all, when Elon Musk said he
would sell cars using the
I’ve mentioned podcasts before in this column as a way
virtual currency and this
to stay informed without reading dozens of other articles
week the market fell when he said he would no longer
or surfing the web. Although I would recommend it to
continue due to environmental concerns. The IRS has
anyone, I find that its not something I do much at home
been trolling for cryptocurrency for the last couple of
but would like to do more.
years and governments around the world troubled by the
Today, for those of you potential devaluing of their own currencies.
that prefer to listen as op-
That said, PayPal has en-
posed to read, I’d like to
tered the game recently by
share an app that I ran
offering a way for you to
across in a Facebook ad.
purchase fractional shares
Everyone has heard of Au-
of four different currencies
dible, the monthly audio
including, I believe, the new
book club that’s been
and popular Dogecoin. So if
owned by Amazon for a while now but have you heard of
you like playing the lottery
Chirp?
and want to spend your hard earned money for some
Chirp is an audio bookstore only. You can’t buy a paper virtual play money, I’d start with PayPal.
book on this site nor download a digital version. Addi-
Moving along, I’d like to put in a plug
tionally, it's not a monthly subscription club either. I had
for Apple TV+. I’m pretty sure you can
my buddy who is an avid book reader (mostly digital
download the app on any smart de-
these days) to check it out for me. He was very im-
vice like Roku or Google TV for a rela-
pressed. He downloaded the app and found a cheap, yet
tively inexpensive monthly fee or
recent book that he was looking to read and instead
possibly a free trial. I am a fan of Ted Lasso whose second
bought the audio book.
season is coming mid-July or so. I recommend it.
While I have rarely listened to audio books, it's my un-
I can’t recall if I’ve mentioned
derstanding that whoever has been chosen to read the
this previously but if you are
book to you is arguably the most important aspect of
into the superhero genre of
audio books.
movies, HBO has plenty. DC
The selection appears to be excellent and the deals to be comic book movies are owned
had are equally impressive and the book is yours to keep. by them and the Zack Snyder’s
Obviously you’ll need an account and the app but then it remake of Justice League is one of the best I’ve seen.
should be smooth sailing (or listening if you prefer). Take
Ok, that’s all I got for now so we’ll talk more on Saturday.
a look and see what you think here.
Take care,
Well, if ever you were interested in cryptocurrency, there

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