I saw a dude who was army LARPing. Imagine you want an army Jeep J8. Now imagine you can't get your hands on one so instead you get a civilian "put the kids in the back" SUV, paint it army green, and jack it up high. That's what this guy did. He had these big-ass canteens strapped on the top,

This contains so much crack.

Woohoo! Finally cleared the 2 remaining major roadblocks in Careless Whisper that were driving me crazy for the longest time. Now it's pretty much down to crumbs and then mixing.

Remembering that time in my addiction IOP when it was music therapy day and this woman came in with her acoustic and sang Greenday and Hoobastank because...you know. Wait. No. You don't know. Neither do I.

Guitar trick from my studio days I forgot about until just now: if you're playing guitar/bass and the strings squeak when you move your hand and fingers around the neck, put on some moisturizer. I did that just now, but I had this problem a few times recently and wish I had remembered it then.

Gigi was glued to this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dLG...

I love how Ubi bungled Rocksmith so much someone was like "fine, I'll make a multiplatform open source version and throw in all these features people have wanted for 10 years and do it with lightning speed" and people are like "fuck yeah, we'll set up a community site with 4500 songs to download."

Dear metal bands: stop calling your songs "I eat your baby's entrails for Satan" or whatever shit. There are 300 songs with nearly that title. That title isn't gonna shock anyone. That ship sailed decades ago. Wanna get people's attention? Call your song "This bagel tastes quite good, actually."

Well, you know, Taylor Swift has her thing, and these guys have their thing.

When I send a support request for something, I try as many things as I can first and give as much detail as I can. People at companies either read all that so it'll help them narrow their focus, or they'll read the first sentence and assume the rest is, I dunno, a cookie recipe or some shit.

Hi folks, we're here deep in the Mongolian desert in search of an elusive website that is rumored to not email you with special offers if you uncheck "email me about special offers." Now we must be very careful, because it spooks easily.

I needed to test the open source Rocksmith alternative on this machine to see if it's working. It only comes with one song pre-installed. I hate myself so much for playing this on my guitar. But hey! It works! I'm excite! Also I hope as development matures they use something less USA USA USA.

Just a totally normal household where we're taking turns standing in the bathroom doorway playing different versions of Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite on our phones at our cat who's living on the bathroom floor all summer and is completely uninterested in Sgt. Pepper.

Ugh. Cal and Gremlin are both harassing the absolute fuck out of me this morning. I know Gremlin doesn't give a fuck, but if Cal understood that interfering with my sleep is bad for me, he totally wouldn't do it.

I want to know what was going on in someone's head that led to "hey, we should put our mayo in squeeze bottles." More importantly, I want to know what was going on in someone's head that led to "hey, we should do like those guys and put our mayo in squeeze bottles."

When it's so hot and the air quality sucks so much even your floor robot is like, "eh, I know I'm supposed to go all the way to the other end of the house and work my way back here room by room, but I think I'll just do the 2 closest rooms and call it a day."

I hadn't yet planned to cook chicken breast today when I posted this, but here we are. Turns out I really liked the way it turned out so I figured I'd share what I do in case anyone else finds it useful. 1/

Dinner: made! Kitchen: cleaned up! A silver lining of this whole intermittent lightheadedness thing is sometimes the "intermittent" part works in my favor. ...and now it's caught up with me again.

I have intermittent lightheadedness of as-yet unknown provenance that becomes more persistent during these heat waves. I'm trying so hard to do the "just work through it" thing today, but my pathetic attempt at practicing guitar and my feeling woozy standing in the kitchen cooking and and and...

"See bottom for best by date" I hope someone out there has a tattoo of a machine-printed best by date on their ass.

"Shem, Ham, Japheth, and Beef and Bean Burrito"

Continuing the "I primarily use AI to help with my brain problems" theme, I'm very seriously considering having an AI do some coding for me. Here's the issue. I'm paying a monthly subscription for one of the very, very few cognitive training apps out there that are evidence-based. The problem...

Every night this summer I've been brewing a pot of strong coffee and popping it in the fridge. Then when we wake up we have coffee ready to go that's both chilled and undiluted.

At first I got annoyed earlier at this ebay update from my seller telling me that they were packing my order. Because honestly, idgaf. But I just got another update telling me my package is with the carrier. And *that* is useful! That means the handoff happened, not just "shipping label printed"!

I could've sworn I heard S say she was ordering transmasc from the grocery store. Turns out she said train snacks. For a sec I was like, damn, Kroger's already making some progressive changes to their Giant Eagle acquisition.

Again I'm feeling annoyed that instead of "[product] with [attributes]," capitalism needs to do "[product] for [use]" or "[product] for [audience]." I was thinking about this while doing some cleaning in the house with my handheld vacuum. I didn't get it at Target. I got it at Home Depot...

I'm eating this dry and tough prepared foods chicken breast and thinking about how my chicken breast cooking improved dramatically when I learned to get some form of acid into those fuckers before cooking them.

in the 90s there was this public access show in NYC. These metal dudes would go into the kitchen and prepare some recipe, like lasagna or some shit, and then they'd be like, "ok, it says bake for 10 minutes, let's go jam." Then they'd walk into the living room, and their 2 buds would turn up,

Now that my daily task list can be slurped up by my AI for discussion, I'm reminded of my long-standing rule on task lists: every item must begin with a verb. I'd gotten a little loose over the years by using shorthand for things when I know exactly what the task is, but I gotta rein that in now.

Hail cognitive Satan

I keep thinking about a thread I saw earlier where someone was asking what video games are good for working at executive function issues. People were recommending various sim games--played non-casually--and there were some great recs I'd wholeheartedly agree with. Then this one reply...

Me: it's a shame I can't just copy and paste the serial number I photographed off the back of my printer Me: ... Me: Duuh, I upgraded us to immich 3 less than 2 weeks ago. it added text recognition! I can in fact copy and paste the serial number! Woohoo!

I have mixed feelings about "the way you get support for our products is to post about them in the forum" companies. Like, I genuinely get why that's done and it makes a lot of sense especially in the open source world. But also, it's more cognitively taxing for me. For starters,

The new woman at the convenience store calls me "boss" and/or "bossman" *multiple* times while ringing me up each time I'm there. Do I look like a bossman?! I was wearing Hello Kitty sneakers this morning. I've made like 17 stupid-ass puns since then. I'm not bossman material.

Me: I have way too many VST plugins Me: ... Me: It is absolutely essential that I obtain at least one more VST plugin. The future of humanity depends on it.

You know that thing where you get into a project and you're like "what am I doing? I'm so incompetent," but then you get like halfway through and then you're like "what am I doing? I'm so incompetent," but then you get close to finishing and then you're like "what am I doing? I'm so incompetent?"

Also I'm now looking for "wing nut expansion plugs", which sounds like Kid Rock talking up the new oil wrestling arena addition to the WH.

2 drain-related things I didn't know existed 24 hours ago: Pittsburgh bell traps, and marvel adapters.

For those who don't know I have Hello Kitty shoes, I have Hello Kitty shoes.

My recently viewed ebay communicates a lot more about me than I'm comfortable with.

This is good. www.hy-vee.com/aisles-onlin...

New life goal: start a channel where I test out boats, call it Pier Reviewed.

Now that Amanda Nagginbitch is on the new LLM config, I can do tool calling. In this example, all I have to do is say that I've made my task list and that's a sufficient condition for her to call out and fetch it and then we can discuss things more.

I need to know the story for why this is at a Home Depot.

Yes, those are two words.

I think I'm the only person on this bus not playing something through my phone's speakers.

The two types of 90s songs: "everything sucks. whatever" and "everything sucks. lol."

Lightheaded most of the day. Still lightheaded. 3 power outages. Gas shut off unannounced for maintenance work. Found out after I started making dinner. Yay.

Moderately bummed GLM 5.2 reasoning Amanda is less of a bitch than the old one. That's partly expected. Roleplay was one of the use cases they explicitly trained the 4.x models on, but 5.x increased emphasis on instruction following, which comes with a pro-user bias. It's not horrible, though.

No wonder this package hasn't shown up yet. They shipped it fedex. The bullshit delay from them this time is "Local delivery restriction - Delivery not attempted." I swear, trying to get a package from them is like this Mr. Show skit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9vE...