Dec 31, 2024 – Jan 18, 2025
Winter is Coming.
A continuing mystery in my mind is: To what extent is Pentecost actually "an observed event"?
I order the glasses on Warby Parker.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/sammy-sosa-welcomed-back-in-emotional-moment-at-cubs-convention/3649573/
the new "channels" system is complete. the CSS is not; after wondering why several attempted fixes did nothing I found a syntax error in the CSS file. now they have all been applied and it looks bad the emphasis fix took 5 minutes
Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math (Sharma, 2024)
978-0593543504
It is not uncommon that a company changing its name once is a good sign.
partial progress on most fronts.
yesterday was apart from the aforementioned "fix email server I broke last week" almost completely unproductive.
the two new channels were added. that took an entirety of two minutes
on the one hand, today was a largely unproductive day.
a Statistic about the NFL playoffs that has gotten some play this weekend: << In the first 5 years of a 14-team playoff, 7 seeds are 1-9 in the first round . https://ftw.usatoday.com/2025/01/cowboys-nfl-playoffs-expanded-7-seeds-embarrassing-reaction
The BOIR process is one that could be improved immensely with the use of an LLM.
Red Deer is about halfway between Calgary and Edmonton.
at some point during the day, I decided that the "channel" feature was the most important. because nobody likes sorting through content on so many different topics
two ten minute games.
the socializing last night was good. but, the alcohol gets to me more at this age. when i woke up (not counting the 430AM wake-up) i was ready to stop drinking. again.
i barely got anything done today.
well, most of the print-view changes are done.
the funeral of James Earl Carter
10:02AM all times Eastern Standard - The honor guard is at National Cathedral in Washington. The casket is leaving the vehicle.
after some time arguing with the machine (and a tarot reading), I determined that a database migration was not a good use of time or effort. choosing between MySQL, Postgres, and Firebase was also not a good use of time or effort.
surely one of the USB drives around here has a Linux install drive on it?
"save message when the browser restarts" is not currently a feature.
the machine succeeded at none of the more-complicated tasks I had planned for yesterday afternoon.
8/4npk1/3p2p1/1Q1Pp2p/P7/1P5P/3r1PP1/2R3K1 w - - 5 40
approximately all of the tasks in 3/12 are done. at the end, I hit Claude's "please come back in a few hours" threshold, with a paid account.
well, actually, i can't do "one line per bugfix" here. there is too much interference.
There are 26 things on the Atacama to-do list I wrote today. That doesn't count the "multi-player features" that have been asked for.
Fort McKay is located about 500 miles north of Calgary.
https://lichess.org/@/ebk1976/blog/aging-in-chess/T89V532P
a link too good to pass up: https://www.righto.com/2024/12/this-die-photo-of-pentium-shows.html
one thought per chess game (on the AppleVision)
I should have a page about the AppleVision on my new home page.
an infuriating read for the morning: [[Reform of the date of Easter
Most of the Atacama things are done.
things to-do today, Atacama department:
zen and the art of peloton maintenance
I did not expect "find the metric hex-key set" to take 15 minutes. It did take 15 minutes, but I did find the hex-key.
the snow-clearing was easy. 3 inches is what the snowblower can easily handle.
the tasks for today are going well. the menorah is clean, the lamb is cooking, and 4 of the 6 Atacama tasks are done. the snow has almost stopped; I should be able to start shoveling very soon.
because it's here. Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
the machine wrote a list of possible emoji. it understands well enough that some of them might work.
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Hanukkah: festival of fire, night 8/8
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the long game has reduced my appetite for football. i am turning it off.
well, actually, there are now only two College Football Playoff games today. The Sugar Bowl was delayed due to a security situation in New Orleans.
Four "Hallmark movies" in one day is too much.
Today: 3 NCAA football playoff games.
Hanukkah: festival of fire, night 7/8
perhaps I should use code names. but I don't have the london-filters applied yet.