Author: Dave R (Admin)

Tl;Dr: Edwin P. Abbott Jr, furloughed park ranger. And the love child of Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons When I was in Junior Highschool my band instructor always had awesome halloween costumes – one memorable year he went as a Rock Lobster. He was great. He inspired me to make fun costumes, which I did…

Tl;Dr: Muscle burn isn’t caused by lactic acid, but it might be OK to think that anyway When you exercise hard your muscles feel like they’re burning. Most people think of this as ‘Lactic Acid’, annnnndd… that’s wrong. Here’s a very good article, backed by this scholarly research. The short version is: Lactic Acid is…

Tl;Dr: Data nerds want to check if they’re doing their plan. Todoist data should help. I’m a data nerd – always have been. Data is great to understand how systems are working, especially systems that have expectations associated with them. For example: I have 37 different ‘projects’ in ToDoist, and I expect to things on…

Tl;dr: What if we think of GenAI as an immature black box consciousness? Generative AI goes by lots of names these days: ChatGPT, LLM, AI, Chatbot. I’ll be using GenAI from here on out. The field overall contains a lot of interesting and distinct things (Machine Learning, advanced statistics, large and small language models). What’s…

Tl;Dr: A simple store is easy and cheap, making it real costs at least lots of time I setup a quick Printify Dropship shop called 3rdtime.printify.me to sell Impeachment related shirts to help spread the word, and to maybe benefit one of my Kids a little bit financially. The idea was: use our current situation…

My team took the Underground Seattle tour last week. When it was over I was a bit sad it was so short – a sign of a good time. The thing that’s amazing about the tour and Seattle history how quickly things changed. In 45 years the city was founded, burned down, regraded, and built…

I started drinking in college, and quit a few years ago. I used to think I was quite extroverted – I still think I am, but being dry’s changed my perspective quite a bit. One of the most common emotions I used to have was regret – after-action shame for dumb behavior. I got pretty…

Wimp-Lo is an antagonist in the ridiculous movie “Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist”. Perhaps you’ve seen the gif: “We trained him wrong on purpose, as a joke”. Not everything is going to go perfect. Wimp-Lo-Tek embraces the imperfections and does it anyway. When the consequences are low – Do It! In today’s example – I finished…

My grandfather (Clarance) had an explosive and gregarious laugh. It’s one of the things that survived the longest through his alzheimer’s. He passed it on to my Uncle. I think my Dad has a more normal sounding laugh. And I’m beginning to wonder – does it just sound normal to me? And how does my…

Tl:dr: when shopping for a bike, keep 20% of your budget for not-bike stuff. One of the best received bits of wisdom I get to hand-out on Reddit is – what else do I need besides a bike to ride a bike? For some small group of people, maybe nothing. But for almost everybody: plan…