INXS, The One Thing, line 4:

Rarely talk, and that's the danger

How I heard it for the last 44 years until today:

Very tough mashed potatoes

no lie.

Zoomed in Pixel 10 photo of the full moon just now. And an "enhanced" version of the same photo. I think this is well beyond "blur and sharpen". Somewhere in between

"I guess these blurry pixels should be these cleaner pixels"

and

"ok, this is a picture of the moon, I'll grab another picture of the moon and position and color it to match this one."

😑

... sometimes of course, someone does have a strong objection. This generally comes with a "I think you should do this instead..." which is great. It's often a better idea. And if it's not, you can then have a discussion about it with someone willing to talk about it.

... at the same time, this covers you if someone decides you shouldn't have done that later. You had your chance. You knew about it and knew I was going to do it and didn't say no.

My secret weapon to cut through red tape when nobody wants to explicitly approve some action:

"If there are no strong objections, I'm going to go ahead and do this..."

- A lot of times, the people who you think should be approving something don't know what you're doing and don't care.
- Getting people to say "yes, do that" puts them on the spot and makes them feel responsible. Letting them tacitly not disagree is easy.
- "strong objections" is important here. Cuts out vague misgivings.

I obviously don't understand investing. This would worry me.

Three diverse men walk into a bar.
One says or does something normal and expected.
The second says or does something similar but slightly different, also normal and expected.
The third says or does something strange and unexpected but tangentially related to what the first two did.
Some people find it funny.

Some thoughts from yesterday:

- Fast is not always better than slow.
- Automated is not always better than manual.
- More is not always better than less.
- Easy is not always better than hard.

Automated things that are made easily, quickly and are abundant tend to have less value than things made slowly and manually with great skill, one by one.

Yesterday I went out in the yard and heard a noise in the trees. As I looked up, two large birds swooped down right over my head and out to towards the street. It was a crow being chased by a coopers hawk. I've seen these two species going at each other in the past. I went out front and in another minute saw them chasing back towards the woods.

Last fall I saw them several times - generally 2 or more crows chasing one hawk. This time it was one on one and the hawk was the chaser.

I don't drink a lot, both in terms of amount and frequency. But now and then a bit of peaty scotch on a cool weekend evening is very nice. Ardbeg An Oa is my favorite. Haven't had any of this in a few years. Looking forward to it.

cool. I've been solidly 2x a day for some years. But 1x a day for ages before that. Wish I'd doubled up a lot sooner.

Browsing LinkedIn constantly for long periods of time is detrimental to your mental health.

However, just checking in once in a while to catch up is detrimental to your mental health.

A little cardboard tray. These are fun. Something to do with all the delivery boxes.

How often do you brush your teeth?

Hey, psst - are you a Boston area game developer who actively dislikes ai/LLMs... and feels out of place in the local scene?

Reach out, I'm putting something together.

(Do you need to be Boston area? No! But I'm just trying to make baby steps in reaching out...)

Wandered into the Brattle Book Shop today - an antiquarian book store in Boston founded in 1825. Didn't find anything serious I wanted, but they have a large shelf of old pulp novels that captured my soul. $5 each. I managed to escape with just two, but I'll be back.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DdfC13fJXXa/

Of course I've been to the Brattle before. They've been there forever. There's a small vacant lot beside the building that is full of book cases with used books, apparently only sorted by price. $5 max from what I saw. Nobody is out there. Honor system, you take what you want inside the store and pay for it. They cover them with tarps at night, I assume bring them in in really bad weather.

Wandered into the Brattle Book Shop today - an antiquarian book store in Boston founded in 1825. Didn't find anything serious I wanted, but they have a large shelf of old pulp novels that captured my soul. $5 each. I managed to escape with just two, but I'll be back.

Many have said the Claude logo looks like a butthole. What does the Claude Duet logo look like?