Morning research leads me to conclude this is almost certainly a female North American Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) laying eggs. The eggs take 2-4 months to hatch so I'm going to put little flags around this area so we don't walk or run machines over it.

My garden snapper says “howdy y’all” Sparky says that turtles don’t know how to play right.

Infinite tree frog glitch happening on my house today.

I’m at a Junior League event. I need to up my hat game if I’m going to hang with these queens.

Remembering yet again how, when I worked at HHS, we weren't allowed to use public funds for the water cooler in our office. That was a personal expense and we all chipped in, because we needed to preserve public trust.

Me when my mom asks me to say the blessing at holidays:

I have a number of species of oak trees around our place. I felt like I should better understand oak species. Looked it up and discovered there are 50 species of oaks in the eastern US. 20 in my specific area. Yeah I’ll never learn them all.

To the best of my knowledge this is accurate.

Breaking news this morning: both a raccoon and a deer on the trail. Sparky was incredibly excited to sniff where each had been.

I’m sure our reality show host has deep thoughts about the Peloponnesian War and the cycles of conflict we risk when rising powers threaten the existing homogeny. Just kidding, Xi will buy him off with flattery and a gold statue of Trump’s hair.

Stop… TACO time! <mchammer.gif>

training LLMs on Reddit was clearly a great idea and should never be questioned.

Articles keep saying, “AI is making devs dumber” … meanwhile I was at the lower bound so the AI fails to make me dumber. Starting points matter.

I spent a few days setting up Obsidian and Claude Code along with connectors to read my main incoming message sources. Yeah, this is pretty sweet. A huge part of this is pretty low level "intelligence" like "look for things that may need action and ask me about them" then "put that on my todo"

I regret literally 100% of the programming language discussions I wade in to. Who cares just write awesome shit that makes you and your users feel something

I bet Jill Lepore didn’t like Babe.

This is thought provoking. I have a buddy who’s ADHD and he does something like this. He says it’s been hugely helpful

Goddamn who can say no? Not me! Daddy needs them butt nuggets for momma’s omelet in the morning.

I am of course appalled at what’s going on in the TN redistricting process. I also must admit I saw this picture and my fist mental twitch was, “Why they arresting OutKast?”

Not gonna lie, I really wish I could pass some of this maintenance off to Claude

This week I learned about Minnesota “funeral bread” and I’m not sure MN isn’t just trolling at this point. www.startribune.com/funeral-brea...

Tweekers are gonna pivot from stealing catalytic converters to stealing GPUs. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/n...

You’ll never believe what I saw on my local Fox News affiliate

Using the MSFT Graph API, for example 😬

I got myself an I-talian doctor. She gets me the good stuff.

I nearly hit a bald eagle that was feasting on roadkill near Jamestown Virginia. I’m failing to not see this as political commentary.

Richard Dawkins right now

I caught Lyme last summer and it sucked tremendously. I don’t give a shit if these twats pass rumors about the vaccine because it isn’t transmissible person to person and we aren’t dependent on herd immunity since it’s transferred through deer. I just want the vaccine

I really didn't understand how high the quality of AI generated music had gotten. I just listened to a podcast and at the end they had a pop song, written from the point of view of a long range cruise missile, that recapped the episode. Very unexpected suno.com/song/8b075ce...

The background rate says I’d farm, frequently nearly starve to death, and get trodden on by asshole rich people wearing funny clothes. And my clothes would be itchy.

Just out here sharing a cig with a redwing blackbird. As one does.

Me and my wife walking into a dinner party. She leans over, smiles and whispers firmly in my ear, “seriously, don’t fucking talk about goblins. Got it?”

I’m not autistic but man do I love trains. I hope that’s not cultural appropriation.

LLMs love goblin posting. They’re just like us!

It’s ag Econ day over here y’all!!

This article about PocketOS deleting their prod db tells us nothing new about AI but does reveal that Railway is a completely junk cloud service provider that is architectured horribly www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Welp short job just got longer. My loblolly’s hung up.

I just misread “effective altruism” as “effective autism” and, um, oh.

Get out there y’all. Them turtles ain’t gonna sniff themselves.

Does this make it so I can't remember how to close VS Code?

Claude’s down. Nap time y’all.

There’s a stupidity test to be part of this cult.

What’s the weakest song on Rumors and why is it Songbird?

This is fantastic for simulation work! I used to jump through hoops to try to manage memory use when building pricing models because each thread required so much ram. Niche need, but valuable.

Photog Sean Smith out here getting amazing shots of wildlife action that I’d be thrilled just to observe.

no it is actually pretty nuts to flip out on everyone who says “I find Claude useful!” or some equivalent like they personally are Elon Musk or Sam Altman. you can dislike the societal impacts of a widely used consumer product without being a psycho to everyone who uses it.

Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina… It’s about time a state slapped back.

My hometown of Nashville -- a blue city which went about two-thirds for Harris-Walz in 2024 -- was gerrymandered by the TN GOP into three different districts all represented by Republicans now, so please get in line to complain about how unfair this all is, Virginia Republicans

WaPo has “how to wash your pants properly” above coverage of redistricting in Virginia. Fuck that trash rag.

My wife and I had a long chat about how to vote on the VA redistricting bill. We both thought it was bad for the state and in bad spirit. However, having read about Robert Axelrod’s computer sims of repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma strategies, I argued for tit for tat. Cont…