[Food] Eli has never before been to a malatang restaurant. Until today, I have failed. The only compensation that I have is: As soon as I learned this sad fact, I immediately took her to one.

I have found programmer socks!

The world's most dangerous escape room. Impossible to find one's way out. Send no help.

The Fediverse was absolutely right. The Cable Car museum is very, very cool. And so steampunk! I took video of the engines working. I wish I could make a good recording of the sound of the engines; it's a nifty, very steady white noise-like sound.

Live the kind of life so that real people will praise you as much as newspapers praise mass murderers.

Eli will be off with a friend, so I have part of the day to myself. I'm off to Chinatown for dim sum and the Cable Car museum!

I am still in #sanfrancisco. Tomorrow, Eli is visiting friends that they know through Second Life. I will spend the morning in Chinatown, trying different dim-sum places. So I #askfedi -- what should I do if I have a long afternoon in San Francisco and I'm on my own?

[AIDS] One artwork that I don't mind sharing from SFMOMA. It's a blank, white canvas. Just a blank, white canvas. Unphotographable shifts on the wall surrounding the canvas are of "AI" "DS" repeatedly. (I tried to get them in the shot. It _might_ be possible […] [Original post on im-in.space]

I am at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. If I were an artist, I would create a sculpture of figures that move ONLY when no nearby motion has been detected. Every visitor would see a different configuration of the figures, but only the very patient would see why them move.

Eli and I are opposites in travel. Luckily, we are both willing to work with the other. Eli is a heavy planner. They know precisely where they want to go and how to get there. When I was looking up how to get from the airport to where we're staying, they immediately answered the MUNI routes and […]

I am visiting THE reason forSan Francisco: the place that perfected the Mission-style burrito, Pancho Villa. It wasn't the first place to serve these rice and bean and meat filled wrapped meals, but it's still the best. Now, everything after this meal will be a step down. Sadness.

Before I travel, my anxious mind siezes on anything -- ANYTHING -- that might go wrong badly as a reason to worry. I usually share them with Eli as something to amuse us both. This trip, my brain has focused on: You don't really know how to pack for a trip. Guess what? That one is accurate […]

San Francisco! We are inside you!

[Religion, US politics.] When I took Lyft to the airport, I heard a story that I won't hear nearly as much in the future: an immigrant grateful for the freedoms in the United States. I didn't want to say how much ICE hates people like him. He himself told me that many so-called Christian […]

Just letting everyone know... I'll be in San Francisco from tomorrow though Thursday, and San Jose for #furtherconfusion from Thursday through Monday. Does anyone want to get together?

I was at the anti-ICE protest at the 405 overpass on Palms Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA. There were about 150 protestors at this hastily-called protest. It was mostly European-Americans at the protest -- unusual for Los Angeles itself. Then I realized: the only group that's safe to protest […]

Last week, I saw the "new" TV show "Best Medicine", a remake of the UK's "Doc Martin". I got the exact opposite impression of the town than what I think the producers intended. As far as I can tell, the producers intended for the town to be filled with "quirky, full of life" characters and for […]

An amazing song I just came across: Metsatöll - Metsaviha 2 A combination of Sami chanting and deep, deep INTENSITY with rock instruments. TAAAPAAA! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elr8I2F5OoE

One coworker -- who I'll call Xavier -- does everything through LLMs. He's the kind of developer that managers who have never been programmers _adore_ : 3000 lines of code per day. I just realized that Xavier cannot read code, even code that he submits for review. He "understands" code by […]

[US Politics, Venezuela] Donald kidnapped Nicolas Maduro and said that the US is going to run Venezuela. Does this mean that the US is now responsible for Venezuela's billions in distressed debt ?

For New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, I am dreadfully sick. I was up until 3:00am coughing. My nose has been filling so quickly that I used a Neti pot four times yesterday. DayQuil and NyQuil do nothing. Ugh. The only positive things are that I have chicken-garlic soup in the refrigerator […]

¡Feliz ano nuevo! Hey, Chip. That doesn't mean "Happy New Year!" It means happy-- You celebrate the new year your way; I'll celebrate it my way.

It's the end of 2025, and I'm sick. My nose has been filling up terribly quickly, and I've been coughing lots. Eli has made chicken noodle soup for me. I am looking forward to it. I hope that your end of year is much better than mine.

2025 was a terrible year for many of us. I'm glad that you're still here. While there's life, there's hope. Let's make 2026 into a better year than 2025 was. #newyear

#qotd The Trump-Kennedy Center has lost many, many shows. The Board of the Trump-Kennedy Center are desperate. They come to you: You can have any play, movie, or other entertainment in the formerly great theater. And, as a bonus, Donald Trump will be tied down to the front-row, center seat […]

I have a terrible memory. Awful memory. It has always been awful. To help my memory, I had been learning languages and using Anki for flashcards. In 2011, I realized that I could use Anki to memorize what I needed in programming. I've been creating and memorizing flashcards since then. Today […]

Goat down! I repeat: Goat down! www.dn.se/sverige/stor...

Can you name three songs that you love? 1. One song that is well known and loved by millions and yes you love it too. 2. One song tragically little known that many could easily love but, for now, loved only by you. 3. And at last one song that you know is hard to love: (too strange or corney […]

Sometimes, the tigers win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVj-u3j3KBk Merry Christmas to those tigers in particular!

Merry Christmas! And if you don't celebrate Christmas... Happy birthday, Jimmy Buffett!

Sometimes a meme gets your head and you gotta draw it from scratch.

@ssavitzky Long time no speak!

@FediTree Tell me who I interacted with.

I'm doing something very very dumb. It was raining all day today. And it's going to be a cesspool of ICE agents. But it's an almost 250-year tradition in Los Angeles. Though I'm not a Christian, I want to stand with my Mexican neighbors. I'm on the bus to Las Posadas right now.

#qotd We can all agree that some songs are "more" Christmassy ("What Child is This?"), or "somewhat" Christmassy ("Let it snow.") But what song is the LEAST Christmas song ever created? What song is the FARTHEST from being Christmassy?

In México, Christmas means a few things. Very silly plays about the battles between angels and demons. (The angels must always win. _Why_ they win is usually up to the children telling the story.) Tamales. (Tamales are mandatory.) And las posadas -- where José y María go from business to […]

It is the time for Christmas songs! https://youtu.be/ZYZH9t-4W4Y?si=aHToBtrab6XVLhBW

My oatmeal just came out of the microwave. I think it's thick enough.

I have found the perfect use of LLMs: creating mandatory sprint summaries. If management is convinced that the bullshit from LLMs is the future, then that's exactly what we should feed them.

A very saucy mural for the toilets in Row DTLA.

Can you help me brainstorm some thorny "AI Ethics Puzzles" These are little scenarios meant to act as a starting point in discussions about the ethics of AI. I will post some examples in response to this post, but I'd love to find some even more thorny ones. Ideally a puzzle shouldn't have a […]

That feeling when you listen to a radio station playing very, very foreign music and they switch to a song that you already know... I love stretching my musical boundaries, but I also like occasional favorites!

I am at Gusto Bread in Long Beach, CA. This bakery elevates traditional Californian Mexican baking. It sells alfajores ("Mexican wedding cookies"), medialunas (croissants), conchas (sweet breads) and other wonderful baked goods made from corn masa and local sourdough. I'm here for their […]

@the_gneech -- Yesterday, you mentioned that Graha's voice sounded different. You're not the only one: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/524847-Graha-Voice-Actor-Change

Greg would approve. Brigid would not be impressed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtt78SW-mgg

It's the time for Christmas songs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Sjl1jc1Oc

TONIGHT! Surprise off-the-normal-schedule #ffxiv stream! MSQ to get to dat Doom Train! Starting @ 7:00 pm https://www.twitch.tv/the_gneech

It is the time for Christmas carols! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVu2y707NFk

I couldn't understand the Cookie Monster vocals. Then the chorus came. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSrvckatUpY You need this song.