r.stricklin

You're trying to trick me into admitting on the internet that I went through a phase after high school for about a year where I used a dip pen with a (steel) crowquill nib.

After a couple months with the Lamy Studio fountain pen, it's not for me. It's built well enough and makes a mark on the page, but neither the balance nor the grip are right. I prefer my old Waterman Expert II, and it's not even close. So I bought a second one off eBay.

It's also blue.

caveat: I haven't set foot in a mall in almost two decades.

Internet memes making fun of Hot Topic of the '90s (dark) vs. today (bright). If true, though, it makes perfect sense to me. Cheerfulness and optimism is about as countercultural as you can get right now.

Lime Spindrift is too much like colonoscopy prep to tolerate.

I struggle to stick with this (Coke is too easy and too delicious), but when I find the discipline for it there are 1 or 2 flavors of Spindrift that I find reasonable. When that feels too Lutheran, I cut fruit juice 60/40 (ish) with Gerolsteiner. Cran*Grape is best IMO. Citrus this way is weird.

dude in the U District in a Royal Crown Cola t-shirt and Honda Acty. Might be a hipster look, but… right on.

I might have misunderstood the original quote. I think maybe the idea was more that Roko’s Basilisk _specifically_ is Calvinism etc. That’s certainly a take, and a less abstract one at that.

“LLMs are just Calvinism for techbros” oh snap that is COLD

God Bless Flula Borg, an almost perfect antidote for... whatever this is.

having complicated feelings the last week or two about this decision to have gone back to school to finish a BS.

YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN

fuchsia, damn it all

“to get to the other side,” I suppose. As an artistic statement, though, I’m going to waste a lot of pointless effort trying to unpack this.

wtf, who covered “Ice Ice Baby”? WHY.

I often feel like unqualified wins are in short supply. As I left the house this morning there was a hummingbird at the hardy fuschia by the driveway. That seems like one, and I’ll gladly take it.

gosh, it’s the whole lacroix experience

I always forget what an excellent companion Peter Høeg is when it comes time again to survive 3 AM.

At the Pioneer Power meet in Shelton, WA with my parents and younger brother.

Didn’t get that close a look before it vanished but I guess the convertible probably means it’s a non-Studebaker Avanti.

Studebaker Avanti convertible in the QFC parking lot.

“Yes, I would like something I can enjoy without having to feel complicated about.” I failed to consider the panic that might cause the barista and had to quickly explain that I already knew that would be pain au chocolat and tea, please.

I can't say this is making me think differently about LLMs in overall terms, but I am starting to see I have had an overly simplistic idea of several fundamentals which are probably meaningful.

YouTube video by Offline with Jon Favreau The A.I. Doomsday Theories That Will End The World

Forget the idiot youtube clickbait headline. This is a good conversation with a reasonable expert.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_fd...

unexpectedly emotional after reading imgur comment thread gushing infinite love for librarians and public libraries

I don’t need the automatic faucet in the washroom to be contributing to my existential crises.

"lol"? www.ebay.com/itm/22680949...

The third AI Winter, is what happened. So-called "expert systems" were so overhyped and so thoroughly failed to deliver on their promises, that AI became utterly toxic for 35 years.

hell no. what a disaster that would be.

YouTube video by The Orb - Topic Egnable

m.youtube.com/watch?v=QoXe...

Halting Problem in CS lecture this morning. I’ve never seen so many students sitting with their head in their hands past the end of class, every last one looking either betrayed or pissed off. I couldn’t help it, I LOL’d.

I can be totally on board with the reasons Vi Hart apparently deleted their Youtube channel (they sound like the same sort of reasons why I deleted my Facebook account and quit doing business on amazon) and still be disappointed that it happened. I wanted to send somebody 18 minutes on infinity!