Year: 2023

  • Halo Collar

    I’ve been spending a lot of time with our new dog Iris1,2. Enough so that it’s become my first priority cutting in my work, tennis, and other chores.  Iris is eight months old now and she’s a handful. I’m pretty committed to training and spending time with her. She’s sitting on the couch next to…

  • Lake Lure

    We took a trip up to Lake Lure last week.

  • Iris

    We decided to adopt a new puppy last year and we picked up Iris last weekend.

  • Artificial Intelligence ( Part 3 )

    I’ve been doing the deep dive on Artificial Intelligence and I’ve already written several essays1,2. It started with an essay entitled A Second Brain3 about personal knowledge bases.  I started taking some online courses to help and asking questions to those much more informed. And what I’ve learned thus far is that I have a…

  • Portland

    We recently travelled to Portland to visit family.

  • Artificial Intelligence ( Part 2 )  

    I previously wrote a quick essay about artificial intelligence in which I took a fairly skeptical viewpoint on the usage of the term and I was partially wrong.

  • Woozie

    I migrated the server this site sits on last week and said goodbye to one of my longest-running servers alongside of my favorite provider. And although this likely means very little to some of you, I take a good bit of pride in my approach to maintaining servers. I named the new server Woozie after…

  • The White Lotus

    We started watching The White Lotus recently. I know, we’re late to the show, but that’s my style. We finished the first season.

  • Updated Profile Photo

     I’m often amused at folks who don’t update their profile photos online. Since the one above is about ten years old, I figured I’d add something a little more recent while talking ownership of my dad’s public Facebook habit of sharing my birthday. The photo was taken in December of 2023 at the crossroads just about 20 feet from…

  • Human Updates Available

    I keep a list of short, middle, and long-term reminders on all of my devices that I use regularly1.  Although I’m constantly editing the short-term list and the long-term has items that have been on there for years. The middle list seems to always have items that take longer than a couple of days because…