it turns out it is surprisingly difficult to install a jack post supporting a slanted shed roof so that you can start replacing a bad section of wall framing

experimentally seeing if Claude can come up with a new layout for my office, and generate a FreeCAD design for custom self-built desks to match it... seems to think that the optimal place for a table lamp, is on a table slightly shorter than the desks, right where their edges intersect

good Lord, the cumulative effect of "helpful suggestions" from every fucking app in existence is tedious. set up a virtual Android device for app testing: no, I don't want to install games, or want a feature walkthrough, or daily weather updates, or a "morning briefing", or...

binging The Diplomat all weekend and then watching Sin City right before bed yields some fascinating dreams

ngl it's pretty fucking annoying that I couldn't get back into the military in the reserves because of previous alcohol abuse, despite being sober for 7 years now, and these chucklefucks who refused lawful orders to get vaccinated are getting welcomed back as heroes

well. ain't that some shit. my desk is almost clean for the first time in years. why? because I've had a mess of papers that I was gonna scan and digitally file "sometime." well... I just set up my scanner to drop them in a network share, where Claude picks them up, renames, and categorizes them.

jeepers. been getting a Powershell popup the last few days that I figured was from my recent OpenClaw install. asked OpenClaw about it: it came back with "wasn't me. so I went and looked at your scheduled tasks, and found the cause" [a log-rotate job from something else I installed the other day]

seen people here and there saying they'd consider using Deepseek, and I would not do that if your intended purpose is writing code

iunno how realistic it is, but I'm really liking The Diplomat

(I would like to note that if I die in a tragic shed collapse, all the dumbass amateur engineering was done solely by me, all Claude did was make a 3D rendering of it)

this is kind of insane

wow. okay. I randomly wondered if Claude could do this, and turns out the answer is "yes": I have a fairly large shed (20'x30') that I need to repair, and want to make closer to an actual building. Claude just wrote me a Python script to generate a FreeCAD file for the framing.

I accidentally left the house with YouTube on autoplay, and I'm not sure how I got from that search to this video

I now have a vibe coded Android app that consolidates all my message notifications into my to-do list, and only for ones that meet my "seems important" criteria chat, I just started disabling mail/message/social notifications, and I think I'm on the path to not constantly feeling like I'm drowning

well, I have now completed a two hour ADHD screening result: severe inattentive ADHD ... this is not shocking at all and changes nothing treatment wise, but apparently this was a requirement or my provider isn't allowed to keep me on Vyvanse

bizarrely specific AI thing I'm doing today: feeding screenshots from documentaries on Air Force nuclear missile operations into Claude, so that it can make me a font which replicates the screen of the Rapid Execution And Combat Targeting console for the Minuteman ICBM

(watching a YouTube video about re-seating a toilet flush valve seal) "oh, that looks easy, I should be able to just pull that out with needle-nose pliers-" well, Titan and I are off to Home Depot

speaking as one who was there for it, it's worth remembering how the mobbing of isabel fall was framed as defending the trans community www.vox.com/the-highligh...

fuck you

jeepers. set up Openclaw last night. and now I have my entire to-do list for tomorrow planned out, auto-selected from a pool of recurring weekly/monthly chores and from my personal to-do backlog. is this my executive function returning?

good Lord. the guy who installed the toilet in my master bathroom is lucky I don't have his phone number, so I can tell him exactly what I think about his leaving about 2" of clearance between the wall and the fill valve lock nut.

migrated my anti-ADHD AI assistant to OpenClaw and I'm very very happy with how it's working. I would like to publish it for others to use, but I'm mildly annoyed that GMail integration requires users to set up their own OAuth client in GCP, or for me to publish it as an app and get CASA audited

jeepers. the pace of AI tooling is kinda insane, a couple months ago I was hand-crafting workflows in n8n, now I'm lying in bed sending Discord DMs to Openclaw explaining how I want it to build workflows for me

day 14 or so of getting out of bed to close my bathroom door to block the sound of my toilet running, and thinking "I really need to install that replacement fill valve... tomorrow"

spent about my entire afternoon reading how to re-build my shed to be residential code compliant ... it's surprisingly complicated, and I have no idea if I will actually do it, but I learned a lot so there's that at least

as a security engineer, not a software engineer, who builds simple automations to try and make life easier for me and my team: one of the main benefits I get from Claude is that I can ask it to write code to help with my main job, which is not my main job, and then go do my main job while it does

been having vivid dreams recently from med changes, and few things are as scary as being somewhere dark, and getting relieved when you see a light, and then the light moves towards you and suddenly you realize that you do not know what's holding the light but you know it is not friendly

update: a retired O-6 in one of the missileer groups told one of my friends "I just looked at your profile, I would've enjoyed being your commander and straightening you out" which is an insanely pathetic thing to *think* let alone say out loud

for the first time in my life today, my dentist told me everything looked great and to keep doing what I was doing this is my first dentist who's ever explained all my exam results in detail, which made me go "huh. yeah, I see why you care about this. I will too!"

hawks will be like "you really believe in negotiating a joint comprehensive plan of action with Iran? that pales in comparison to my strategy, winning a war of regime change" and then not win a war of regime change

you do not tax billionaires to fund universal healthcare. you, yes you the person reading this, and everyone you know, pay more in taxes to fund universal healthcare. you tax billionaires to take away a gun that Elon Musk is pointing at your head.

yesterday I read an AI summary of something related to a technical standard I wasn't familiar with, and somewhat to my surprise, it was actually informative

the Pentagon bringing in Kid Rock as a celebrity hype man reminds me of the anti-DUI down day I went to once, where the briefer yelled at the packed base theater "WHO WANTS TICKETS TO GO SEE NICKELBACK?!" and paused for cheers and was met with complete silence

not a terribly novel observation, but the Internet has seemingly made a bunch of people forget that the current events they see online are actually real an obvious example being Kalshi/Polymarket + Iran: people treat it like a sports match, but it's an ACTUAL WAR and people are dying in real life!

Facebook keeps showing me posts from some guy running for office in Wyoming, Reid Rasner (presumably because I used to be stationed there), and as far as I can tell his entire campaign is just him trying to mimic Donald Trump (accordion hands and all) it's... sad/embarrassing, honestly

with all due respect to the ones who aren't: military retirees, as a collective, have to be one of the most annoying demographics on Facebook

in lighter news, Titan is particularly satisfied tonight after having casually eating my toddler cousin's popsicle right out of his hand my cousin was less happy about this

my latest replay has been Dishonored 2, and I can't believe I managed to forget the phrase "Outsider's crooked cock!"

my grandfather was active in state politics in GOP leadership for a couple decades. he had a solid bipartisan reputation for being unfailingly polite and respectful. anyways, the current state GOP chair is crashing out on people in Facebook comments and just told someone to "stop masturbating"

just saw a car with "🚫ZOG" written on the back window, so I guess people just feel comfortable using white nationalist code phrases in public now. 😬

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decided to replay the Hitman series recently, and encountered that one cutscene that starts with the voiceover, "Alexa Carlisle is dead..." ... which prompted the Alexa on my desk to offer me condolences on the death of Carlisle, and resources to get me through this difficult time

vibe coding while watching Black Mirror, just to be ironic

the strait of hormuz needs to have regular, predictable open hours or frankly they are going to lose me as a customer

one of the most adorable things Titan does is just hold his plush ball. I call it his "treasure", because he doesn't chew it. he just lies there holding it and enjoying having it. sometimes admiring it in the mirror

my former USAF career field has been in the news in the last couple years for being linked to cancer, we have our own Facebook group for it we've officially made the big leagues, because we just got our first "don't trust doctors, just use these supplements I heard about from Joe Rogan" post

lukewarm AI take: deliberately acting confidently wrong to try and confuse an LLM doesn't indicate anything about its capability

I understand Pope fatigue (I was confirmed by a child molester) and to an extent it's a Let Them Fight situation but it's genuinely important and different that the Catholic Church, a major geopolitical actor with endless resources dating back millennia, is coming out hard against fascism this time

oh no. I didn't realize two more seasons of Black Mirror have come out. well, time to get depressed I guess

I decided to play through the Hitman series again, and honestly, the masterfully orchestrated complex assassinations don't give me as much joy as the childish glee of knocking out guards at range by clocking them in the head with cans of soda