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When OpenAI announced they were sunsetting Pulse, I used their recommended prompt to schedule a daily update. Two days in, I think it’s actually better than Pulse was. No pretty pictures, but both yesterday and today were more relevant,...
Sail off anchor 6:20 on a clear, beautiful morning. Can hear the surf breaking on the beach on the other side of the banks. A flood tide running west to east, light southwest wind. Making 0.5 against the tide, then 0.9 with better wind....
For our first July 4th together outside of Texas, we are doing the most Texas thing available: smoking a brisket. This is how it looked last night before it went on the smoker. (Don’t worry, the foil did not go with it.)
for a while i wrote in a purple notebook. nothing interesting, just a diary. highlight of the day, what happened, weekend plans, etcetera. i kept it up five months and then fell out of practice.. at first accidentally and then...
I’m not washing them that way for the fun of it; that is literally what the washing instructions demand.
Can a novel written in 1880 perfectly capture the messy, conflicting depths of modern human psychology? Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov does exactly that, pitting fierce faith against razor-sharp atheism. The Brothers Karamazov, a...
When the plague rolled around, everyone who could afford to do so went far, far away from the crowded towns and smelly throngs of people. However, even though medieval people suspected that the disease could be passed from human to human...
Happy birthday, USA! Millennium-wise, I guess this would be the Q1 reporting deadline. My old July 4 post about the Museum of the American Revolution. Flag is out in front of the house. Went to the farmer’s market and forgot I should...
When I was in college and got a dorm room through a scholarship, I had a friend who dealt more closely with the grunge of life. We were both part of the staff of the college’s newspaper, often working long nights that stretched into...
I had a fun conversation last night with my Friday RPG group about campaign length. I’ve been chasing what I think of as the platonic ideal for campaigns for almost 40 years: the ongoing game that doesn’t end, or at least runs for a good...
This update covers Sunday 06-28-26 through Saturday 07-04-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 I barely escaped melting! Oh yeah, America turns 250 this week. 📕 The extreme heat warning for STL this week was no joke! I realize parts of...
Kim made this for me in 2002.
Two articles I think are worth reading on this, the 250th birthday of the United States because they describe how far we have come, yet still the same, while fighting against what we tell ourselves is the norm of civilization. America,...
Valve announced the Steam Machine and its price(s), causing much unrest online. Some saw it coming, some are disappointed, some have a more realistic view that this is the price of non-subsidized hardware in 2026. I think the price is...