Delivery Issues

I was recording myself telling some dad jokes as a test of my mic setup and making sure I had it optimized for recording. I’m...

Hidden Sections of This Site

Did you know this blog has hidden sections? They’re category pages that don’t have any articles in their categories. If you click the “Menu” on...

Pro Tip: Cheap White Label Link Shortener

You’ve probably encountered them… bit.ly, amzn.to… followed by a slash and then a word or a jumble of a few letters and numbers. They’re called...

Testing reading comprehension in 15 LLMs

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERTThis article discusses asking various models a question about my novel, Hell on $5 A Day, after providing it for context or RAG...

A Project A Month… Fizzling?

Hey Greg, you say. Why does that image look like Colin Mochrie trying to perform a Vulcan mind meld on himself? Well, I went over...

Broke my brain with a simple regex

Today I spent WAY too much time debugging why I was getting an empty string from a string replace operation to pull spaces, dashes, and...

A Project A Month, That’s All We Ask

Remember the old slogan for Blue Diamond Almonds? “A can a week, that’s all we ask.” I do. Since I started my new productivity hack,...

Should I Own The eBooks I Buy?

If you buy a physical book at Barnes & Noble, you don’t have to go back to your local Barnes & Noble to read it....

My first song… sort of

Now that I have some training in music theory and working with FL Studio under my belt, I started working on taking one of my...

Leaving Facebook is hard…

It’s been 23 days since I submitted my requests to Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. I just have to hold out and not log on for...

2024: A Musical Odyssey

As I’ve noted before, I’m also taking music classes. As a demonstration of a concept in Music Theory, the teacher played Also Sprach Zarathustra. I’m...

Pick Your Nose

I’m taking a Udemy class in vector drawing characters for animation. The class is about drawing characters like those from “Dexter’s Laboratory” or “The Fairly...

Today I learned (TIL) #1

Today I learned “We all live with a very awesome dog” can be sung to the chorus of “Yellow Submarine.” Photo of a cairn terrier...

Was I visited by a ghost?

I’m might have been visited by a ghost last night. I hope I was. Here’s the backstory. In my community college days, my best friend...