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Musings about life on two wheels
Weird Steering on a bike? Check the crown race
Tl;Dr: If your bike creaks or sticks when turning, see if the crown race is right side up Steering on a bike is WAY more important than you think – than anybody thinks. This is because riding a bike is a constant unconscious process of extremely minor corrections to stay balanced. Here’s a great example:…
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a fair bit of time looking for these mysterious chargers around the city, convincing myself that the app was simply out of date.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…
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