On AI:
A Large Language Model is just a “what word might be next” text adventure.
Of course that quote could have been created with AI. Who knows?
Watched: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 🍿
I will always spend a few hours watching a mystery being solved by Daniel Craig with a southern accent.
Watched: Candy Cane Lane 🍿
An extremely predictable but fun Christmas movie.
Wheel of Fortune without Pat Sajack is not Wheel of Fortune to me. Ryan Seacrest isn’t as good of a host, he doesn’t have the same banter that Pat did.
Watched: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 🍿
Not as good as the first movie. Kevin’s ambushes of the Wet Bandits were much darker than the first.
Watched: Home Alone 🍿
Haven’t really watched this in 20 years. Entertaining and adorable Christmas movie.
Half Dome from Glacier Point taken earlier this year.
edited with Gemini on Pixel 10 Pro
Going to try @timapple MB Manager on my new Pixel 10.
First impressions:
- Download and signing in - super simple
- More to come, gotta kick the tires and such
Loving the look of it so far
Leaf on a walkway in Yosemite National Park.
Shadows of each other.
#Caturday
- You’re only using part of your body to move. What is wrong with you?
All animals, probably.
I have a CR48 Chromebook sitting in my office. I think I want to see if that can be revived and used as a daily laptop again. Maybe that will be a project in 2026.
Finished reading: Along the Razor’s Edge by Rob J Hayes 📚
Not sure how I feel about this one. I enjoyed the overall story, I think. The pacing was off, but that was more due to the structure of the chapters and not the story. I might continue this series to see where it goes.
Enjoyed some time watching elephant seals along the California coast today.
There is a type freedom, I think, in not having a plan, agenda, goal, task, reward, or result to follow or chase. A freedom outside of being productive or efficient. A freedom to just being that people have lost sight of chasing productivity and efficiency.
View from a hotel balcony.
Lovely colors in the sunset over the Pacific ocean along the California Central Coast this evening.
Why does waiting for 8 minutes feel like an eternity but waiting for an hour goes by in seconds?
What is time? Why does it not pass consistently unless you are paying attention to it?