Category: TD/GDMBR 2024
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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a fair bit of time looking for these mysterious chargers around the city, convincing myself that the app was simply out of date.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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Random musical thought
Maybe a big part of music is making you feel as if you know what’s coming (predictable rhythm), while also engaging novelty.
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Feeling resigned
Tl;Dr: Feels like (our political situation) can’t be helped, maybe it’s time to just lay back and take it I’ve been making the analogy that Trump is like a heart attack – urgent action (like CPR) is needed to help the patient survive the event. Looking at what our urgent action has accomplished so far,…
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Focus, people
Tl;Dr: Please pick the most urgent & important political issues and focus on those, let the rest go til later. Today I saw a post by somebody wondering what had happened to the Ban on TickTock. Not to put too fine a point it: who fucking cares? Remember Gish Gallop? It’s a rhetorical tactic to…