Brian Christiansen

UConn beats Duke. That’s not unusual, but doing it in football is new. 🎉

Sad to see that Uni Watch will soon be taken off the web. Hopefully the writer can take the archives to a new endeavor!

This upcoming Apple Reminders feature is one I’ve wanted for years, and seriously considered vibe coding an app to make this happen. High hopes for this one: iOS 26.2 Adds Alarms for Reminders

I’m sorry Toronto.

But it was an epic World Series.

“We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, (and) the efficiency of public schools.”
—W.E.B. DuBois

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

As a neutral, I both want to see the Jays wrap it up with a come back in the bottom of the 9th, while also wanting the baseball season to last one more game.

Scariest thing I saw driving my girls tonight for Halloween was a house with a lit Christmas tree inside.

Such a beautiful New England fall day. Wish I could sit on my deck in the sun without the drone of industrial-grade leafblowers echoing across the little valley we sit at the bottom of.

Listening to some Jack DeJohnette this morning, in honor of one of the men on jazz’s Mount Rushmore, who passed yesterday.

Holy crap. An hour ago I asked Claude if it had an interactive voice mode, like I’d used with Gemini, and it responded “no”. And then, just now, I mistakenly hit a button that wasn’t there an hour ago, and Claude started talking out loud to me. 😮

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

I love the way my dog plays tug-of-war with me. We’ll be tugging, and she’ll “win” pulling the toy out of my hand, and within 2 seconds, she’s putting the toy back in my hand, because the tugging—not the winning—is the good part.

An announcement from your local drummer about Rush going back on tour: https://briandigital.com/2025/10/07/an-announcement-from-your-local.html

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

“The Radical Left” sounds like a great band name.

In protest of all the day to day stupidity we are all dealing with, I’m sticking it to the man. I just took a Tylenol.

A commanding win over America’s Team shows the Chicago Bears are for real.

As potentially problematic as a CCP-controlled TikTok algorithm could be, given the slow-moving dystopia unleashed by the algorithms of Facebook/Instagram, and (X née Twitter), it very well could be more dangerous under the control of the friends of this administration.

“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

This… existed?

Ethan Mollick at UPenn is a good follow to keep up on AI. In this post, he covers quickly everything from environmental costs, the new “Nano Banana” Google image model is crazy good (see his examples), and how the costs to run are plummeting while the quality is going up quickly.

Can across a couple of equestrians on the trails today. One complimented my MTB, and then asked if I was the motor. (I was.) Strange question coming from someone who was not the motor of their own transport, but I guess e-bikes are fully in the public consciousness now?

I made a new Trello account last week to set up a board for a nonprofit I work with. I swear to %deity% I have never been spammed so much as I have by Atlassian. I must have received 30 emails (excluding board notifications) and was auto-signed up for Jira and Confluence, despite not wanting either.

Tedeschi Trucks Band - 08/01/25 - "Franklin's Tower" YouTube video by nugs

Tedeschi Trucks Band at Red Rocks, Franklin's Tower
www.youtube.com/live/0QjigLV...

The service that sends a code to your email or txt seems to go down pretty frequently. I wish more places just allowed me to generate a code (2FA) or just have a passkey. If your site is up, but I can’t sign in… that’s not endearing.

If there’s a front runner for Word of the Year, it must be Sycophant. Think about it for a minute.
OK, did you think of…
1. The U.S. President’s appointees
or
2. AI chat bot “personalities”
… first?

Mini computing experiments: https://briandigital.com/2025/08/25/mini-computing-experiments.html