We have nothing to worry about when it comes to AI.
Microsoft should rename their AI to Cletus.
Way Too Much Of Not Enough Of Anything
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We have nothing to worry about when it comes to AI.
Microsoft should rename their AI to Cletus.
Fedora was was real fun but, in the end, after a year, I gave up and moved on.
A couple of things happened:
A few weeks ago, I was installing Linux updates on this here laptop and on a restart things started acting weird. My audio interface was nowhere to be found. My mouse started acting real janky. And apps (mostly DAW) were just crashing randomly.
JFC
Every once and awhile, just for fun, I’m going to listen to some music I enjoyed when I was a teenager and and post about what I think of it now.
Today’s entry is Omen: “Battle Cry”
I started this as a single entry, but it became so long that I decided to tackle it in a multiple parts.
While I’m not going to go over the complete backstory, this abridged version does help set the stage of what we were dealing with that led to the decision to just DYI things.
Ms. Tucker owns a small condo. By small, I mean small: 530-ish square feet.
While tiny, it’s a cute, modern, open space layout, with 10 foot ceilings and huge windows that is located in the heart of downtown. It’s also very nostalgic for both of us as that’s where we started to build our life together nearly twenty years ago.
As time went on and we decided to have kids, we moved out of the condo and a relative moved in…
Continue reading “Learning New Skills, Part One: The Backstory”
Every once and awhile, just for fun, I’m going to listen to some music I enjoyed when I was a teenager and and post about what I think of it now.
The inaugural entry covers two releases from the pioneers of Power Metal: Helloween.
My About blurb, has some mantras listed and I’d like to talk about them.
This took a long time to write and then I waffled about even posting it. Then I thought: fuck it.
So here we go. And my apologies, it’s long.
I have three songs in the works. All of them need lyrics and vocals. Two also need drums.
One of them turned out to be pretty terrible so I shitcanned it and now I have two songs in the works. One only has a single verse of lyrics to complete, which I’m just being completely lazy with, and the other needs a full set of lyrics and drums so near the end of July I recorded the drums.
A few days later, I realized that the drumming for the outro is little off everything else so now I have to redo all of the guitars.
“Wait,” you ask, “why re-record all the guitar parts? Why don’t you just re-record the drums?”
Well, you see, I recorded the drum parts, gave it a quick listen and was happy at the time. Then I sold my drums.
So you’ve recorded your tracks and are ready to mix but you’re kind of bummed because everything always sounds so muddy and you know that whatever you try will not help much.
We’ve all been there. A lot. Yet there is one thing we know about but rarely seem to pay very much attention to:
The High Pass.
Continue reading “It’s Pretty Wizard: The Magic Of The High Pass”
At the end of last year I decided to post about the books I’d read in 2022. In that post I said: “… for 2023, I plan to read even more.”
Six months in and I’ve already surpassed last years count, so why not do two entries for 2023?
As a fun aside our family did the Book Advent Calendar again this year but I bag I chose, for some damn reason, was Popular Thrillers. I first book I unwrapped was The Davinci Code, which I hadn’t read as I’d been led to believe that it was shitty and not worth my time. Undaunted I decided to give it a go…
… only to find that it was shitty and not worth my time. I put it down after three chapters. It’s just so eye-rollingly bad in every way a book can be bad.
The rest of the books that came out of the Popular Thriller Advent Calendar were more of the same: Tom Clancy, John Grisham, and a couple more Pat Browns. I read only one of them and donated the rest.
Anyway, here we go…
Well, shit. It’s been three whole months. So much for trying to keep up on this here blog on a regular basis.
Remember this? Well, let’s see how it going.
(Note, I’m not going to comment on each specific topic in that NY post, just some of them with added colour commentary.)
“I plan to start moving again. I’m going to get myself a bike and start using it for all the errands that I currently drive for – like going to the store that’s literally less than 5 Km away”
I bought a bike. A nice, basic fitness/city bike. While I’ve never been the worlds biggest Cannondale fan, this bike checked all the boxes for me:
The test ride in the store parking lot sold me. This bike is limber and, so far, it does what I ask. I haven’t really pushed it yet due to weather and springtime chores but as we move into May, I will be going farther and farther. I haven’t realy biked anywhere in well over 5 years, so I’m going to ease back into it.
Uh-huh. This is not going as well as planned. While I have shed a little weight, I’ve spent more time eating useless, carby, packaged food (and take out!) than I should be. Also, have been drinking a little more than I should be.
I haven’t worked on anything since early March. Musically, the new tune I have is done but only has half its lyrics. I need to get back on this in a big way.
I’ve picked back up on this. FocusWriter is my app of choice (I did try a few other, Open Source writing apps and found them overly complicated) and I set a daily goal of 500 words. I kept this up for about two weeks, then tapered off a bit. Now I try and find some time in the wee hours of the morning. Or I spend time pecking away at this rather than doomscrolling through the news.
This is an edited version of what I originally had here. I felt like i jumped the gun on a few things and was very, very reactionary about the computer bit which is stupid because it’s just computer shit. I’m trying to not be whiny about things like technology. I want to take deep breaths, look at my options and move forward. I don’t want to hit a snag and just stamp my feet and yell.
So I’ll put a little tech/computer update here and shitcan the incessant whining.
And that, as they say, is that.