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Charles Bukowski once wrote: Find what you love and let it kill you. I am still not sure how I see this or what this means to me. Then again, I am unsure if I want this or anything to kill me again.Yes, I say again.I say I don’t want...
In a world that often encourages us to be other than who we really are, this quote serves as a corrective: Find out who you are, and do it on purpose — Dolly Parton In other words, lean into our strengths and the things that bring us...
Issue 7 is out! Source
When my paternal grandfather, the postmaster in a small town in Ohio in the ‘60s, spotted a red velvet cake recipe in a magazine at work, I doubt he imagined that nearly 60 years later it would have reached legendary status among our...
One element of public infrastructure that I think is critically valuable to developing a culture of people existing outside in community is space for play--specifically but critically, not exclusively for children.Or at least, not in a...
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. Ah yes, this is exactly the kind of nonsense that Sundry Sunday was intended to showcase. I’m telling you, quality...
Today it has been eight years since Vanessa Marquez was shot in the back and killed by members of the South Pasadena, California Police Department. At the time, I described it as feeling as if a part of my soul had been ripped out. And I...
A few years ago, a typewriter came to me—a Smith-Corona electric portable, I believe—with a variety of papers inside the case. They included a brief report on artificial intelligence, written by Sharon T. in 1988. It's just a few pages...
Anyone know of a good historical overview of how “local church/congregation membership” has been thought of in different church traditions over time?
It's nearly a new month and here are the things I want to hold myself to through September BloggingBlogging first. I want to keep the week notes streak alive. I've managed 34 weeks in a row and it would be a shame to break that now. On...
The grind is over#Life has been busy in the last few months, which didn't leave me a lot of room to write. Still, I wanted to do a short update on a few little things.Last April I switched roles at work and became a full time project &...
Queen of All Ears
Ever since I found out about emulation years ago, its been by favorite method to play. But decided to take it to a new level
🤝 I have spent an unreasonable amount of time using large language models. Most of that time went to Anthropic and OpenAI, with plenty of Kimi and Qwen mixed in. I used them for research, writing, coding, and long agent runs. I finally...
“I already know most of what’s in there,” my sister told me. We were in a bookstore downtown. She picked a book about reducing inflammation. That’s something we both have been struggling with recently, for different reasons. When I asked...