Tabletop Gaming, Family, and Tech
Update: I was using the following models: deepseek-r1:7b and llama3:latest (7b) DeepSeek-R1 came out generally over the weekend, and a lot was talked about the cost to generate such a complete and capable model. I am happy to see that it is an open model that I could
Jason and I have been collecting data from the Ontario Government's COVID-19 vaccination statistics and started to graph them in Grafana. You can find the graph at https://monitor.sdf1.net/dashboard/snapshot/ontvacstat s which is updated every hour. The Prometheus agent that collects the stats was
For a few years I've had this blog and The Thirsty Meeple blog. The former focused on tech, and our family. The other focused on our hobby of Table Top Gaming (Boardgames, RPGs) But both sites have not had much activity in some time so I've
I have just done something totally crazy. I have signed up to GM a game at Gen Con . I will be running No Salvation for Witches from Lamentations of the Flame Princess . I think that going through the process of blogging about my experiences from now until after
So where were we? Oh right, we were at the point where we decided to take the kids back to Gen Con this year. The kids were so excited to go that they started the count down as soon as we bought the badges. This year Gen Con Housing changed
Two weeks ago I was in Indianapolis with Ray and the kids attending Gen Con. This was our third year making the trek. Actually, Ray and I went alone the first year and then last year we decided to bring the kids. This year the kids insisted on going again&
This year was our first Gen Con, we got housing but only at a hotel by the airport. There is zero traffic so driving in was easy and parking if you got there around 9am was reasonable and available. I heard lots of complaints about the shuttle bus so if
[Please also check out Part 1 ] In this new post about a modern programming operating system I'm going to comment on what a flood of people gave me in the comments on the post and on Hacker News . I'm very thankful for the overwhelming support and
I was reminiscing about my childhood and computers in comparison to what my own children have. How booting up the Vic20 and later the C128 and being presented with nothing more than a blue screen and a flashing cursor prompting me to type in some basic code. I could save
Ive been seeing this in my local postfix log: Dec 10 08:46:50 totoro.local postfix/smtp[59905]: Untrusted TLS connection established to smtp.gmail.com[74.125.142.109]:587: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits It wasn't harmful, mail still is sent. But annoying,
Here are my top 12 albums for 2012, they are no in order as I consider them all great for varies reasons :) I also included a couple of bonus items that came out as an EP or a single. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die Ben Folds Five -
Decided to restart the ol'blog. I'm getting kind of fed up with Twitter and Facebook isn't the right platform for posts on a technical level. I thought of using Google+ but the thought of maintaining yet another social network didn't sound like
RIP Watson ?-2009 As some of you may or may not beaware of, one of our dogs Watson got very sick about 6 days ago and was not eating and we got very worried about him. The new Mahalo Answers community rallied around him when I posted a question on
On Saturday at 7:45PM Aidan buckled over in pain which we dismissed as bad gas pains and just watched him carefully through the night. On Sunday we took him into emerg where he didn't react to any physical exam and blood, urine and xrays all showed up
The Canadian Liberal Party enters a Legal coup position, what I mean by that is by forming a coalition party with the NDP and with written support from the Bloc they can legally overthrow the current sitting Conservative Party Government for power! As far as I can tell this is