It is getting colder and the wind is picking up. I bought ice melt and generator gas in hopes that being prepared will lead to milder weather just to make fun of my preparedness.

Chatting with ChatGPT this morning it told me, 'Feeling like “using React is a failure” is purely emotional, not technical. Let me unpack why you might feel that, and why it’s actually the right choice in most cases.' :sad-face:

Earlier this week, CloudFlare had a major outage for four hours. It made about 20 of my sites inaccessible. What is cool is that they displayed a message admitting that my servers were working OK but CloudFlare was broken.

Sprinkles are for winners.

Dear Apple - Who in the hell wanted HDR and Live. And why is it that every time I turn it off you wait a week and turn it back on. F****CK.

For Halloween, Brent wanted to go as an astronaut so he had ChatGPT turn his wheelchair into a lunar rover which we built. I played the role of alien abductor.

Another A funny. PowerPoint was generating alt text for this image and called it "A crossword puzzle with different colored squares" - not 100% wrong in a way. :)

I needed an image for a www.ca4e.com lecture. ChatGPT prompt: I would like an animation style image that shows a quantum computing represented by atoms and molecules swirling around in a dense cloud that is in the dumpster on fire.

I am working on a lecture for www.ca4e.com about tubes and transistors and made a funny typo in my ChatGPT prompt. "Could you make an animation style worm cozy image of a family listening to a large radio console in the 1940's"

Wheels down DTW

On board LGA 🛫 DTW on the way home from Sloan Foundation Teaching in the age of AI meeting where the Comet browser crushed one of my auto graders that I thought was unshakable. It turns out accessibility features gave Comet a back door.

Wheels down LGA NYC. 🛬

On board DTW 🛫 LGA to visit Sloan Foundation and talk AI in programming courses

Find the Australian Shepard in this picture.

I am having fun with Claude - I asked it to add an acknowledgement to itself in my code. It was a bit self deprecating and characterized itself as a tool - so I said "you are a lot smarter than grep"

My afternoon lecture is in a new room in southeast campus. Did that means aArmy Stew for lunch. #yummy

AI Prompt: So now we are going to add save and restore from browser local storage to more the folders. We have a pretty nice example of save / restore in cdc8512 - could you look that over and implement a similar feature in mistic, cmos, gates and wasm? Feel free to pull out some common bits?

More AI Snark: I reverted it all - you need to simply accept the fact that jump instructions are part of the immediate instruction family and handle them with the rest of the immediate instructions.

My latest exasperated AI prompt: Sheesh! Have you ever seen a square wave on an oscilloscope? There is no "middle" it starts low then goes high for a bit and then stays high for a bit and then goes back low. The animation just flips up and down every 0.5 seconds.

I am starting to be a bit sarcastic with AI. "When you were trying to make the sum outputs emerge downward from the adder (which you did not accomplish) you messed up the re-draw of the adder after it has been moved using drag and drop." #WhatCouldGoWrong

First Jerk Pork of Fall semester

I added a way to look at the layers of any cell in my simple Mistic VLSI design tool for www.ca4e.com - helps to understand photo-lithography and the use of via's

Wheels down Grand Rapids. 🛬

On board going home MSP flying to GRR

Wheels down Minneapolis

I am writing a lecture about human obsession with sunrise and sunset throughout the seasons going back thousands of years. I point out the importance of seasons with a uniquely Michigan / Midwest example. When I give the lecture I will sing a bit of the song :)

I have been going to El Azteco in East Lansing for 50 years.

Life-saving idea! Pass it on!

A long time ago when NorthWest was still an airline, they had a Steakhouse ad in every airline magazine. I had a goal to go to all 11. As you can see by the tick marks I made it to 9.

Brent won the championship of the Wheelchair jockey league. youtube.com/shorts/SVqIj...

White Castle burgers from a vending machine are surprisingly yummy.

I never realized how scary early Disney movies were. Have watched a good number of them the past few days, conflict, loss, and tragedy is an essential part of the plots. Like early fairytales there is a difficult lesson in each for the viewer.

Unpacked in my new office #UMSI in the new Leinwebber building

Whenever I lose power, use my generator for 36 hours and the power comes back on, I have so much appreciation that the electric utilities work so hard to make electricity seem effortless. Thanks Consumers Energy.

Well is is a Thursday in May and pickup hockey is at 9:30-11:00 AM and exactly when a tornado comes through and goes through Williamston, MI.

You know you got your moneys worth when you see the steel cords on your tires at the end of a race.

At the track

We are at the wheelchair hockey playoffs in Frasier, MI

How it started. How it’s going.

We are down to less than a week before @umsi moves from North Quad to North Campus. Just used up my last @chipotletweets.bsky.social gift card. Sigh.

I asked AI if Duracell golf cart batteries have an automatic fill capability. The answer is not wrong :)

A light rain + Fresh mowed lawn + Australian Shepard =

Boat is in the lake for the summer

Meet Anthony Schmidt, a 16-year-old with #autism who turns #miniature #cars into life-sized works of #art through his incredible #photography

Some good news. I my initial testing of the upgrade of Django from 4.2 to 5.2 - looks like it will be smooth. And testing PHP 8.3 to 8.4 also looks smooth. It would e nice if these were easy because Django 3.0 to 4.2 was a *pain* and PHP 8.0 to 8.3 was also a pain.

I love rivers when the water is running

I probably spend 10% of my time thinking about accessibility when building auto graders for my new Computer Architecture for Everybody (www.ca4e.com) - I want to build an accessible visual circuit editor and I think I can do it.

Does any one know the correct name for “Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast”?

During this time I am tending to buy more used and buy more on ebay from my fellow citizens whenever I can.

Wheels down 🛬 Detroit