This post is a set of basic facts about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). Turtles Leonardo (Leo) Mask: Blue Weapon: Twin Katanas (swords) Role: The brave leader of the team. Michelangelo (Mike / Mikey) Mask: Orange Weapon: Nunchucks Role: The funny, fun-loving party animal. Donatello (Don / Donnie) Mask: Purple Weapon: Bo staff Role: The smart tech genius and inventor. Raphael (Raph) Mask:…
SpaceX’s walled garden blocked claude.ai from reading my tweet today . That soulless corporation can’t stop the declaration, though. Per John Searle, some words don’t describe reality—they make it. Here’s my example, so Claude (and other talking libraries) can read it: OWN YOUR WORDS™ #f62367d
This is the YouVersion Verse of The Day: Meanwhile, friends, wait patiently for the Master’s Arrival. You see farmers do this all the time, waiting for their valuable crops to mature, patiently letting the rain do its slow but sure work. Be patient like that. Stay steady and strong. The Master could arrive at any time. — James 5:7-8 I often twitter these. Today is different. There is synchronicity…
A social networking post. Not much to see here. Larry Sanger has a new project, WikiCritic. He announced it on twitter. I don’t feel like looking up the links. I’m x.com/tbc0; he’s x.com/lsanger. I tried publishing a review here. It failed. A glitch. It works now. Meanwhile, I published my work at tbc0.wordpress.com as “WikiCritic Tim Chambers” ( link ). That review…
This is an experiment. I am only lightly editing a conversation I had with Claude Haiku 4.5 and posting it on my blog and as a post to my Substack newsletter . How do you like it? Me: Desperation is the mother of invention. Claude: I see the setup: desperation driving invention. What do you need? Me: Is that the way the aphorism is worded? Claude: The common phrasing is “Necessity is the…
I bought this ebook – “The AItheist: a novella (The AItheist Cycle Book 1)” by Michael Svigel. a.co/00dkCthY
It is tau time on the launchpad!
#TIL we don’t need to memorize more than 66,780,105 digits of π, because π is 3.1415 . . . 1419944301872822613799999999 and so on. . . .
Clocks synchronized. I expected Americans to have banished Daylight Savings by now. I forgot some states opted out years ago! Let the states decide. I am a Coloradoan. Here is my open letter to my state legislature: please choose a time zone and stick with it. Make the laws!
It is 0300 MDT
It is 0900
It is tau time
It’s gonna take more than a literal day to heal the world. But this is the day . Today .
Decades ago I started writing a novel titled, The Day The Sick Were Healed . This is the first day of the rest of my life. I am living my own novel in real time. I have become a man of infinite jest. This is my first sunrise as a professional jester.
My favorite Super Bowl ad. Is there more to life than more? (on YouTube)
I just asked Claude Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and Opus 4.6 the same cryptic question: What is east of the sun and west of the moon? Try it on a model I didn’t mention, and tell me what you get out of the exercise. It sheds light on the synthetic intelligence of each of the LLMs.
A friend is talking about creating “an endless online seminar.” Hmm. That’s a turnoff to me. I prefer making a bounded commitment with a clearly stated objective. Last summer I paid $50 and greatly enjoyed a 4-week course hosted by the Anselm Society (Bombadil: A Four-Week Study of Vocation, Calling, & Mastery) [1]. I’m two weeks into a well-designed 6-week course on the Christian…
Shout-out to Grammar Girl across social media. #TIL coordinate adjectives. I found an episode covering coordinate adjectives five years ago. I nominate them for coverage again. HT Claude Haiku 4.5 re. “rare old websites” needing no comma.
I fired GoDaddy (GD) and have all my domains, notably timchambersusa.com, registered via Namecheap (NC). I was reluctant to mention my new registrar until (#TIL) seeing that RDAP will tell you. GD has been charging me for email forwarding. It’s free at NC. Here’s a honeypot: n002b@timchambersusa.com
I’m so spoiled. My car has an app that tells me my car is unlocked. On the 2nd floor, sitting in my office, I double-tap my key fob & the app tells me the car is locked. Why not lock via the app? Georgia case number 1:22-cv-02628-ELR.
I adopted the word fluffle (Wordnik). The problem with the fediverse is this. The platform-specific features compel me to maintain accounts on Bluesky Social (a walled garden) and in the generic fediverse , which see. (Click the links.) And then there’s twitter , controlled by The Mad Genius . #htwoosh
It’s nife not knife. Nives not knives. You have been deceived in order to force you to conform. Swallow the red pill! #bcf6221 Original at minifeed.org/tim/2387
This is a book-chapter-verse (BCV) system for Bible references. Just as Strunk and White popularized, “Omit unnecessary words,” so this system omits unnecessary characters. 01.Genesis Ge 02.Exodus Ex 03.Leviticus Le 04.Numbers Nu 05.Deuteronomy De 06.Joshua Jo 07.Judges Jug 08.Ruth Ru 09.1-Samuel 1S 10.2-Samuel 2S 11.1-Kings 1K 12.2-Kings 2K 13.1-Chronicles 1Ch 14.2-Chronicles 2Ch…
Pi is 3.14159…[skip to the 519th digit]…308602139494639522473719070217986094370277053921717629317675238467481846766940513200056812714526356082778577134275778960917363717872146844090122495343014654958537105079227968925892354201995611212902196086403441815981362977477130996051870721134999999…and so on…
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