Goodbye, Sumo
A farewell to my dog
Stray Thought
Stray Thought is the personal website and weblog of Adam Stone: Writing on technology, games, and society, plus links and interactive diversions.
Latest posts
Stop Asking LLMs for Apologies
Any fool can make an LLM spit out an apology, but it takes a very special fool to take that apology seriously.
Links For the New Year
Links on learning to vibecode (with some of my own thoughts), web games and oddities, and a new music video for a great old song
Ludography 2025
I recap my 2025 at the board gaming table, including some statistics on my overall play, and my thoughts on the games that I played the most and the games that made the biggest impact.
My Advent of Code 2025
Notes and reflections on an annual coding challenge after a year when I did a lot more coding that usual.
Links: A Video About Boxes
A link roundup featuring a video essay on board game marketing and box design from Amabel Holland, along with a couple of lighter items
Apologizing to Bots
What are our obligations when we interact with entities that might or might not be human?
Links: Some Videos for Thanksgiving Week
Three videos: two music videos from my past and one wild Jeopardy! compilation
On Falling
Everyone falls, has fallen, will fall again.
Links: Pages, Bytes, and Escher
Links to a new experimental tech publication, an archive of a classic, and BPL's digitized Escher archives