Author: Dave R (Admin)

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…

Had fun this evening with David & Erik. Talked about a lot of things, but some it was climate change stuff. My favorite: Space Bubbles A couple other interesting  possibilities that I should look into later: alkalizing the oceans (limestone?) But back to space bubbles: the idea is to block some solar energy in space.…

Mis en Place  is a French cooking term: “Putting in place”.  Basically it means: put out all your ingredients before you start. I first heard the term many years ago, and honestly it doesn’t really work all that well for my style of cooking. At least, that’s what I thought. I’ve always thought that it…