Welcome!
Hi and welcome to my retirement. Sit down a spell while I explain what I'm up to....
How It’s Going
Despite my gap in posting Groaner Dads, getting back to it has been helpful in driving traffic and subscribers for the Bulmash Media channel on...
Status Update: “Sodom All Over Again”
For those who don’t know, Hell on $5 A Day was originally planned as three novels… but turned into one… then became the first novel...
Mac Desktop UI on Windows? Try Seelen
As some of you know, I recently ended a 2-year experiment of diving into the Apple ecosystem… whole hog: MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, iPhone, AirPods....
A Tough Couple of Weeks
Last year, around this time, I was publishing a webcomic called “Todd The God,” but stopped. My Dad’s birthday is in March. Last year, the...
How many gophers would it take to sink Paris? An AI thought experiment
Google pushed out Gemini 2.0 to its workspace customers, so I decided to test its knowledge and reasoning ability with an absurd question: How many...
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...
So good looking it hurts (SUNO V4 Engine)
During dinner a few weeks back, I got a fragment of a lyric… “It hurts. You know it hurts. It hurts… being so good looking.”...
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...
Google’s NotebookLM Podcast Generator Gets It Wrong
After Andrew Byrne’s LinkedIn post about him generating a podcast about his career using Google’s NotebookLM, I wondered if I could generate a podcast based...
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,...
The Journey So Far – Retirement Diary #5
Welcome to the latest retirement diary. In my last post, I discussed my goals. In the last month, I’d had 9 unique visitors to this...
Sick Days & Experiments: Retirement Diary #4
Sorry I’ve been away, but I got COVID. My youngest appears to have brought it home from school. The whole house was down for about...
Am I learning the right tools? – Retirement Diary #3
One of the biggest issues a lot of newbies run into is deciding what tools to learn. I want to animate, so do I learn...
Retirement Diary #2
So that happened. I’ve been trying a few things. Some of you may know I planned to take piano lessons. That lasted about as long...
Retirement Diary #1:
I have officially been retired for four days. I have spent them registering an LLC, dissolving a corporation, generating Bulmash Media collateral (stickers, shirt, business...