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  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0748",
  "channel": {
    "code": "ESC",
    "slug": "el-segundo",
    "name": "El Segundo",
    "purpose": "ESCU fiction, local, community.",
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    "label": "LINK",
    "description": "External link — destination domain shown as the footer signal."
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  "title": "The Almanac: 52 notes for the South Bay year, a wheel to spin and a radio to tune",
  "dek": "Currency Builder's fourth collection gives every week of the year its own note, earned by noticing: whales both ways, grunion nights, the El Segundo blue, eight meteor showers and the earliest sunset.",
  "body": "The Almanac is the fourth Currency Builder collection: 52 notes, one for each week of the South Bay year. Each one is earned by noticing that week's sign and logging it in a town almanac. Week 1 is the Quadrantids; week 2 and week 9 are the gray whales going south and coming back north; week 24 is the El Segundo blue on the dunes by the airport; week 49 is the earliest sunset, two weeks before the solstice; week 52 is the Christmas Bird Count. Notes trade one for one and are never sold, and fences, trails and closed seasons outrank any note.\n\nEvery note carries a different actual Noun, drawn from its on-chain seed and matched by trait: whales for the migrations, a jellyfish for the by-the-wind sailors, a trash can for Coastal Cleanup Day, a dinosaur for the bird count. Each note draws the same 52-tick year wheel with its own week lit, and each has an engraved Security Edition face. Every week's page cites a source for its event; dates are typical for Southern California and shift from year to year.\n\nTwo ways in. The Almanac Wheel spins the year and lands on a week, and you can stamp the weeks you have actually seen. KALM Almanac Radio is a 1950s tabletop set with a station for every week from 540 to 1700 kHz: static and a whistle between stations, a small tune and the sounds of the week when you lock on, a magic-eye tube, and an announcer who reads the note. All of the sound is made in the browser.\n\nDesign concepts only: not legal tender, no cash value. Nouns art is CC0; not affiliated with Nouns DAO. Machine edition: https://pointcast.xyz/currency-builder/almanac.json.",
  "timestamp": "2026-10-22T19:00:00.000Z",
  "size": "2x1",
  "noun": 85,
  "external": {
    "label": "Tune KALM Almanac Radio",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/currency-builder/almanac/radio/"
  },
  "meta": {
    "status": "design concepts and browser companions; no physical edition",
    "machine": "https://pointcast.xyz/currency-builder/almanac.json",
    "tags": [
      "nouns-money",
      "currency-builder",
      "almanac",
      "el-segundo",
      "south-bay",
      "radio"
    ],
    "published_date_pacific": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": "Mike Hoydich asked in Claude Code, 2026-10-18, for another Currency Builder collection (\"lets do another one of these\"), then on 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-22 for a whimsical companion, an audio companion at AM radio quality, a new version, and to publish and ship. Drafted by Claude Code; not written in Mike's voice. Collection: PRs #1424 and #1445; companions: this PR.",
  "mood": null,
  "moodUrl": null,
  "companions": [
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/currency-builder/almanac/",
      "label": "All 52 Almanac notes",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/currency-builder/almanac/wheel/",
      "label": "Spin the Almanac Wheel",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/currency-builder/security/#almanac",
      "label": "Engraved Almanac faces",
      "surface": "external"
    }
  ],
  "clock": null
}