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Finally got a significant work thing completed this morning that, as you may guess, took far shorter to complete than the procrastination did to doing it.

Anyway, I also added snow (via @zachleat), holiday lights, and music to my site for fun.


I’m starting to think fortune cookies just tell us what we want to hear.


“Never eat your heroes,” whispered the cannibal to himself as he set his fork down.


Generally, I rail against “AI,” but I’m looking to possibly explore the use and function of LLMs. Any recommendations? Generally hoping for recs focused on security, no copyright infringement (tall order), and local usage?


I was having issues logging into my Win11 computer at work. It kept saying password was wrong but I knew it was correct. So I thought, “Maybe the batteries in my wireless keyboard are going.”

I went to IT for batteries. During the search, we were chatting and I explained why I needed batteries.

From IT: “Oh, we’ve found some people reporting that issue. If you restart it, it should work.”

Now, I know the old, “Did you try turning it off and on again?” But never in my life for an operating system did I think that would apply to logging into the machine with the correct credentials. Big tech’s a joke.


Had an emergency vet appt today to discover that our 13 yo baby cat has arthritis in her back left leg.


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My only complaint about Qobuz is the no Siri integration of asking, “play xyz in Qobuz”