Friendly tech and bird nerd, highly caffeinated.
There sure is a lot of noise out there about so-called “artificial intelligence.” (I won’t bother with the scare quotes through the whole post, but it’s worth noting: “AI” is a term that’s been in use, mostly for marketing, since the 1950s (here is the term’s original usage), and as…
I don’t think any of us went into 2025 thinking this would be an easy year, and boy wasn’t it. Rather than restate our collective challenges, I’m going to stick to my own little life and keep it short with bullet points and pictures. I’ll also list as many positives…
Not my catchiest title of all time, but you'll get what it says on the tin. Unlike some foods, now.
I gave a little informal presentation about the Stuart Semple / Anish Kapoor feud earlier today. It was a lot of fun. Maybe you’d like to see the slides.
Preface Before we start, I should point out: I am not a doctor. I have no medical training. I only have a couple years’ worth of herbal studies, so I consider myself a student of herbalism more than a practitioner. Nothing in this post should be read as medical advice…
A little action by a lot of people becomes a lot of action.
I entered 2024 on the brink of burnout. Maybe a bit past the brink. I didn’t feel secure in my job; I was still exhausted from a rushed move at the start of the year; I ignored the fact that I was already busy and tired and went for my…
We've got a good yard, but we're going to do drastic things and make it even better!
I mentioned in my last post that I moved to Maine in mid-February. Dale made the drive with me, because one person driving birds 12 hours in the dead of winter could have been risky for them, and then he drove back to Pittsburgh to oversee the last of the…
Actually officially announcing on here that I sold my house just north of Pittsburgh, bought a 120-year-old house in Maine, and started a fully-remote library job (truly, a unicorn of a thing in this field) over the course of just a little over two months at the beginning of this year. TLDR: It's going well.