I Geek, Therefore I Am
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I've been a little sniffly this week, which I suppose was inevitable given the weeks of near-daily rain. I'm not feverish, just annoyed that my nose randomly turns into a faucet every now and then. Meds are helping keep things under control, but it also means I'm a little slower on the uptake than I'd like to be. It's my birthday in a week, and it's one of those unbirthday years, I think. There's…
Work was a LOT today. I had a significant amount of ad campaign work to clear, and that took up most of my day. That's a lot of detailed and often tedious work, which makes things feel like even more work at times. I cleared what I wanted to cover by the end of the day, but man, it was still a LOT. My brain doesn't quite want to brain right now, but let's get through this blog update and see if…
I didn't work out this morning. I had woken up early enough, but I guess the gloomy weather just kept me feeling lazy. At the very least, I did do some light weight training on Monday and Tuesday, so that has to count for something. I'm focused on strengthening my shoulders, particularly the right one that was frozen last year. I'm using our lightest weight, which is a solid 2kg thing. It means a…
The way the lines between regular Google Search and Google AI Search have blurred means "using" AI feels like a near inevitability. And while I still feel that generative AI isn't meant to be a creative tool (enough with the AI flyers!), I can't deny its utility as an assistant. I'm too much of a Trekkie to deny that I enjoy keying in instructions into an AI bot and waiting to see how it resolves…
We had some pretty harsh rain for most of today, which made doing the laundry a non-optimal activity. As much as I could use the dryer to process things fully, I was really hoping to be able to hang stuff for even a little bit. I really wish I had managed to take advantage of the limited sun over the weekend, but our busy weekend schedule sort of got in the way of that. While we were at Komiket…
Last night was Popstar Bench's O Bar birthday show, and it was quite an amazing production. The "Popstar" part of her name has been more than deserved in recent years. It started as a representation of her dancing ability and the uncanny degree to which she managed to capture the likes of Sarah Geronimo. But in more recent years (perhaps especially since her run on Drag Race Philippines), her…
Today's sticker shock realization: Was Pepper Lunch always that expensive? I know it has been a long time since we last ate at a Pepper Lunch Express in a food court, but I don't remember the per-person financial outlay being over P500. Crazy. Did this change come along after they started having their own sit-down restaurants? Or is this just an inflation thing, and it just shows we haven't had…
I just finished re-reading Wyrd Sisters , which is the 6th Discworld book and the second to feature the Witches of Lancre. This wasn't the first Discworld book I ever read, but it's the one that made the most impact in my early explorations of this universe that Sir Terry Pratchett had created. It's easy to celebrate Pratchett's later books, because his writing just got better and better over the…
As a follow-up to yesterday's thoughts on signing up for subscription reading services , my working timeline breaks down as follows: Kindle Unlimited - I'll first finish the core Witches-related Discworld books. I'm already on Wyrd Sisters , which leaves Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, and Carpe Jugulum. Then I'll sign up so I can resume Dungeon Crawler Carl. Intellectually, I know I…
We finally got to try SinMa Kopitiam, and it wasn't too shabby . Maybe I've been overly traumatized by Kopi Kaki , but this place at least felt decent. I think their bak kut teh is the best item on the menu and is totally worth going back for. Their kopi options are legitimate, so that's also good, but I was a bit disappointed that they don't have yuan yang on the menu. The other stuff we ordered…
I just finished The Gate of the Feral Gods ( Amazon affiliate link ) , which is the fourth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series ( Amazon affiliate link ) . They're fairly lengthy books, but they're also relatively easy and very enjoyable reads, so I've been steadily working my way through the series. The only complication is that this fourth book is the last one I managed to get on sale, save…
