Andrew D Thaler

If you haven't used it yet, Shemshime's Bedtime Rhyme in Candlekeep Mysteries is my all-time favorite one-shot adventure.

So much tech advance in the last 2 decades has been about at least the appearance of giving tools and control to people. Even the whole gig economy was sold as being your own boss. LLMs feel bad because they feel like the opposite of that.

We have a multi-table library campaign set in Candlekeep, and every so often we'll bring all the tables together for a massive, 12 to 20 player, 3-5 DM Defend the Library battle, but it's less a shared story than it is a shared setting with One Big Brawl.

It's chaos.

It's such a wild phenomenon. I know folks who insist their trucks are "better on gas" because they can drive farther on a fill-up, but they just have massive gas tanks and are dropping $100+ on a fill.

I just restocked my woodshop with cherry and maple boards for the first time in two years and holy mola hardwood lumber prices have gone wild.

I'm glad I have thousands of board feet of Black Walnut stockpiled, but man cannot live on Walnut alone.

I've only seen them around the Mid-Atlantic.

The schtick is that the band members are mostly ex-Amish playing all the music they couldn't listen to as kids.

It rocks.

Amish Outlaws band rocking out on stage.

You are not ready for how hard the Amish Outlaws go.

Just an incredibly versatile cover band, rolling seamlessly from Dre to Greenday to Kenny Rogers to Snoop Dog to Elton John to Fleetwood Mac to Tupac.

Always a great show.

A toolshed that is still mostly a huge mess.

Spring is sprung, which means I finally had a nice day to start cleaning out the woodshop.

This place was a mess.

We're moving 50 lb bags of feed and pellets a quarter-ton at a time. The extra inches make a huge difference.

Hostile Architecture, but for shitty mall crawlers.

A thing we're doing on the Climate Commission is redesigning the parking area for our Waterman's dock so that they can back their normal-sized work trucks and have the beds line up with the docks for loading.

Knock on effect is that it makes parking a jacked-up brodozer there super irritating.

That has not been my experience. the less bending down, the better.

Ours was a 2003 and we used it for farm work. Hilariously, the older X5 was about the same size as the current X3s. Even BMW is susceptible to beast creep.

That extra height makes a huge difference. We had a Camry and an X5 when the kiddo was born and holy mola was it a huge difference doing the car seat.

X5 was otherwise terrible, though. Hit 80,000 miles and decided nothing would work ever again.

I think one of the under-discussed phenomena of the SUV age is that we'll never see a large return to station wagons because compact SUVs fill the same roll and the slightly taller stance means that for older drivers, they are *a lot* easier to get in and out of.

This is how our public library is set up. But the movies are free and there's also a kid zone and a teen section and a quiet room, too.

People are on day 4 of talking about MacDonald's burgers, MacDonald's actual competitors made commercials for MacDonald's, and influencers are flexing on how to actually eat a Big Arch, and folks think that that CEO stunt was a bad ad?

Meanwhile, troops are getting deployment orders...

For twenty years I've heard the same reframe and for the same twenty years I've had a fairly popular ocean science blog that tracks how long readers spend on each page and the long wonky pieces have the best retention and are still read years later.

I dunno, my Ford Escape PHEV that regularly goes 1500 miles on 10 gallons of gas seems to be doing just fine.

So glad to hear it!

This is a Warhammer 40K joke.
It is also a Star Trek joke.
It is the most joke.
Everyone laugh.

"I wish for a future with warp travel"

Mon-keigh's paw closes.

It took 12,000 years for us to give wolves anxiety, so I see this as a testament to the unrivaled creative power of the human imagination.

The math rocks do not have anxiety and gambling websites are not sources for breaking news.

So, what you've done here is spent 100 years tricking rocks into doing math and then you've gone and given those math rocks anxiety.

Asking an LLM to provide step by step instructions on how to disable the LLM is one of only a few legitimate use cases.

I finally got Zoom's "AI Companion" to tell me how to disable it.

There's no option in the phone or desktop app, you have to go to your account on the Zoom website.