Randy Rasa

What Writing 250 Pulp Stories in the 90s Taught Me About Taming AI Timeless lessons from my pulp apprenticeship

What Writing 250 Pulp Stories in the 90s Taught Me About Taming AI
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What NotebookLM Taught Me About My Entrepreneurial Career Insights from 30 years of shareware, SEO, and surviving tech waves.

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How I Pivoted From Shareware to AdSense: Building a Solitaire Empire From mailing floppy disks to mastering Google AdSense: How I turned a “gap year” into a decade of passive income.

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How I Sold Shareware by Mail in the 1990s The story of Solitaire Suite, the “beg screen,” and a time when the internet ran on trust and postage stamps.

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Snowball Hill Prairie - Missouri Prairie Foundation

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Snowball Hill Prairie signage

Visited Snowball Hill Prairie for the first time yesterday. What a nice site. It's very interesting to see the dramatic difference in species between the remnant prairie portion and the reconstructed prairie portion. #prairie #nativeplants @moprairie.bsky.social

Monarch caterpillar on Common Milkweed

First #monarch baby at Higginsville City Lake Trails #higginsvillemo

Common Milkweed

First Common Milkweed blossom of 2025 opened today at #higginsvillecitylaketrails

Monarch on Green Antelopehorn Milkweed at #higginsvillecitylaketrails #higginsvillemo

Blue-Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) is popping at Higginsville City lake Trails 😍

Migrations Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is a…

"Migrations" exists (and it's a terrific book), but the author is Charlotte McConaghy, not Maggie O'Farrell.
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Green Antelopehorns (Asclepias viridis) blossom

One of the first #milkweed blooms of the year, at Higginsville City Lake Trails #GreenAntelopehorn #Asclepiasviridis

A Spring Azure on American Plum at Higginsville City Lake Trails in Higginsville MO. First butterfly photo of the year!

Hard to beat someone who's well-known, and who was part of people's morning routine for years. My community was previously part of Emanuel Cleaver's district (Kansas City), but was gerrymandered to make it even harder for a Democrat to be elected, barring a wholesale shifting of political momentum.

I am an Alford constituent. He's another one of those former TV talk show hosts who got tired of pretending to be pleasant and friendly, and decided to let his inner mean-spirited demon free. So, of course, he's been elected twice, and counting.

If they can improve the safety for vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and bicyclists, amen!

YouTube video by Thrive Allen County Meet the Board 4/7 | Randy Rasa

A short video spotlighting my work with Thrive Allen County @thriveallen.bsky.social and Lehigh Portland Trails in Iola KS www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO9x...

Updated to Linux Mint 22.1 today. I had been running an older version for several years, and it was fine, but it was time to bring things up to date. Did a full fresh install. Super smooth and easy 😎 #linuxmint

Sunny Spin Bike SF-B1002

Virtual Cycling Platforms comparison #android #appletv #virtualcycling #zwift

Virtual Cycling Apps comparison #zwift #mywhoosh #rouvy #fulgaz #bkool #virtualcycling

A sign of snow fatigue / getting soft: I bought myself a spin bike, and am in the process of fitting it out to connect to #Zwift or some other virtual cycling app. I've found #Copilot AI surprisingly helpful in sussing out the details of configuring apps, sensors, platforms, displays, etc.

Similar story here: we have a 3-year gap before Medicare. 2025 is locked in, presumably, but after that, it's a hope and a prayer that the ACA survives...

In 2024, I read 58 books (mostly audiobooks). The big project was a re-read of the entire "Matthew Scudder" series from Lawrence Block, followed by sampling a number of urban fantasy series.

More trails. Always the right answer. 😎

Get Lonely - YouTube

Just listened to @themountaingoats.bsky.social "Get Lonely" again ... what an extraordinarily lovely, quiet, but brutal album.

And giving multiple Amazon gift cards, as well.

Rather than purchasing a new laptop, I bumped up my RAM to 32GB. Now I can have even more tabs open at once!

#linuxmint #linux

If this a fake as well? benjaminfelixx.bsky.social

BlackRock recommends bitcoin portfolio weighting of up to 2% for interested investors BlackRock recommends that interested investors consider allocating as much as 2% of their portfolio to bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, the giant asset manager said in a report on Thursday.

I've seen similar recommendations from other respected sources, and I'm beginning to see the potential of #bitcoin as a diversification asset. I recently bought a bit of #FBTC, but I'm not up to 2% yet. Thoughts?

Wowza! That a lot of prairie dock!

Missouri politics can be incredibly bipolar. Voters approve common-sense progressive amendments, and at the same time elect state politicians who explicitly vow to overturn those same amendments. It's insane.

Letters to Santa

One of the charming things about small town life: Letters to Santa in the local newspaper ... 8 pages worth! #smalltown #rural #missouri