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Category: TD/GDMBR 2024
Fixing Kanga’s Nose
A story from a long time ago. Kid2 had a variety of stuffed animals when he was young. His favorite was always Kanga. Over the years Kanga was the recipient of lots and lots of love. Primarily on her about. After around 7 years of this her face was pretty much destroyed. Around this time…
In Praise of Home
Tl;Dr: Michael Franti is very good, Home is my favorite Spearhead Album Home came out in 1994 – I was about 25 when I saw them live in downtown Seattle. I was living the dream – 3ish years into my dream job (computer-land). Perhaps room mates with N. Boxer. This was right around the time…
Abundance: Ok, what’s next?
Tl;Dr: Abundance was a good book, but it leaves me wanting next steps (like Katie Wilson) BerkClerb read Abundance. I’m glad we did, it made me think a lot about my political affiliation, and how to orient towards a future that works well. Here are a couple big thoughts from the book and me: The…
Unconscious theater : 3 what’s
3 whats I was reading a web site. There was a discussion of a wheat field for sale at a ridiculously low price. I looked into it – the ‘field’ was a patch of land about 15 feet by 10, irregularly shaped, embedded in the side yard of somebody’s rural house. There were actually 3…
A little repair
Sewed a button back on some shorts. No big deal, except I sewed it ‘blind’ (without seeing through the bottom material), since it’s an interior button. Yay me.
Bought a car!
Tl;Dr: easy to spend too much time on a big purchase I have a bit more time on my hands these days, and the desire to do things a bit farther afoot than my bike can take me (reasonably). Like: going for a hike at snoqualmie, getting to a trailhead in the olympics. And maybe…
Pole mounted chargers, I never would have guessed
Tl;Dr: in Seattle, the chargers are mounted on power poles 20 ft off the ground I spent a fair bit of time looking for these mysterious chargers around the city, convincing myself that the app was simply out of date. Nope. The charges are there. They’re just 20 ft off the ground.
Generative AI as a metaphor for consciousness
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…
Mountain Turtle is my spirit animal
Tl;Dr: Kent Peterson is one of my bicycle heros, maybe the primary hero Sometime back in 2010 or so I first heard about the Tour Divide. It wasn’t long after that I learned about a rider from Seattle: Kent Peterson. Kent not only rode the Tour Divide, he did it twice – once on a…
Why do actors get involved in politics?
Tl;Dr: Actors get sucked into leadership vaccumes I’m sure there’s a longer, better thought out explanation for this, but why in the world do we end up paying attention to actors in times of political crisis? For example, Jane Fonda posted on Instagram earlier this week ‘Wake up folks and ride up…‘. Don’t get me…