5 months ago
The days are shorter right now, and it gets darker and colder faster. But the time is the same. It’s just that we spent the last 6 months with warm days and long weather, thinking everything was infinite, and daylight stayed with us past the late hours of the evening. Finding time isn’t a Quest, it’s a Discipline, and once obtained, it can become near infinite.
5 months ago
I picked up a random book at a flea market a few months ago that I’m just getting around to reading now. I didn’t think it’d be that great, the length seemed a bit daunting, and it felt like I was going to have to become invested in another long-term saga that spanned generations and might not ever be finished. But it’s not. It’s a bunch of short stories with a loose thread pulled between each one. It’s an insanely clever idea; you can see that you are in a world being created, but so many stories are interwoven between
5 months ago
Looking for a gift for a friend who never stops giving? Anomia – it’s the simplest game, but it invokes the strongest reactions from all those who play it. If you have yet to play it, it’s worth the $20 – you will laugh from it, you will learn from it, you will become frustrated by it. All elements of a great game.
5 months ago
I’ve had a few interactions with AI where I ask it a question, technical of course, it doesn’t give me the correct answer, I rephrase and/or learn more and ask again. I get another answer. I repeat the same process, only this time I get the initial answer that started us down this path. And this might go on for a few more interactions, partly because I want to see where it will go. But then I get frustrated and I tell it to STOP. And it keeps going, I say STOP again, and it keeps going. Maybe around the
5 months ago
We’ve spent the last month getting ready for the winter – turning things off, putting away summer stuff, taking out winter gear, buying a snowblower – all the stuff that comes wtih the changing of the seasons from anything else to Winter. At the time of writing, it is snowing outside. There is no more work to do; we’ve done all we could do, and now it’s time to get through and live it.
