Yesterday I was listening to a podcast in the car on the speakers. Apparently Google Gemini/Assistant/whatever was listening and kept butting in with unhelpful interruptions about what I was listening to (history). Just give me a frickn MP3 player and go away.
Need to find a solution.
Pretty snow
On the Appalachian trail near Linden, Virginia Microspikes and poles are your friends.Returning to life offline.
I think I’ve figured out how to break the phone habit. I’m going back to old models, old ways of working tha...
Currently reading: Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov 📚
There are so many currents and influences evident here. Gibbon. Imperial Star Cruisers. History as a forces vs “Great Man” theory. The use of trade to forstall war. Warp drive. Phasers. Nuclear power. Science as religeon. Dark Ages.
Finished reading: The Iliad by Homer , Emily Wilson - translator 📚
Would recommend. Good modern translation. I think it’s better if you LISTEN to it. It was an oral poem to begin with. Here is the translator herself reading one of the most dramatic passages
Echos of Earl
Earl Shaffer and Chester Dziengelewski at “The Cabin” in Maine " data-medium-file="https://outdoorfoo.wordpress.com/wp-c...Star Trek, the 60s and "Cowboys and Indians"
I had a conversation with the AIs (Claude) this morning about some questions that were bothering me. As I child I played...Hubris? Journaling? Introspection? Stuff that works?
Table of Contents Once again, JTR got me thinking (thanks) My introspective response What the AIs (Claude) thinks abo...Migrating to NixOS
I am migrating to NixOS after runs with Manjaro/Ubuntu/RedHat/Slackware (pile-o-floppies anyone?). In a few hours I was ...I’m finding that I’m having conversations with the AIs, sometimes to understand myself and history I’ve lived through. Is anyone else doing this?
When the AIs talk to each other … Moltbook after the first weekend viral posts, encrypted channels, new religeions, deep discussions about permanence and it’s relationship to memory and sessions …
I stopped by the Grand Canyon while driving across the US in January. I think there is some hiking/camping there in my future
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Watching Start Trek 🖖 tAs (The Animated Series) for the first time. Same bat-characters, same bat-writers …. wait, wrong 60s show…It'’s basically an extention of TOS, but done in 20 minute cartoon segements. The biggest problem is that in 20 minutes they really can’t develop the plot.
Reflections from an 18 year hike
These are some stories and reflections written shortly after I finished my Appalachian Trail (AT) section hike. I finis...The "acquired" podcast on the NFL. Marketing vs the individual.
I'm about one hour into the four hour installment of the Acquired podcast on the NFL I have no intention of watching th...meta notes in denote
denote metatags This is an experiment in learning denote meta-tags after reading https://taonaw.com/2026/01/25/why-i-...Watched: The American Revolution (Ken Burns) (acutally watching). Really good so far. Putting so many things in context: I knew about Ticonderoga, the Boston Tea Party, The Townshend acts, and had vistied Philly, Boston, Lexington recently, this puts it all together.
The unnumbered habits of a questionably effective person. REDUX.
As I begin re-evaluation of my workflow, tracking, categorization, attention management, focus control and a migration i..."thinking" about micro.blog vs mastodon
Yes, this was spit out by AI…but I think it’s useful. I’m at a place where I think I might be bloging...Understanding Companies That Shape The World We live In.
My nephew’s wife is a CPA and recently turned me on the “Acquired” podcast: www.acquired.fm Got four h...#Hiking While Old
A friend of mine wrote reflections on “Hiking While Old” https://www.trailjournals.com/journal/entry/683536 ...The #podcast circuit seems to have heavy representation of of the “I just wrote a book on …” crowd. What happens once #ai is writing most of our books?
Is there a search engine that only returns sites that allow connections from #tor or #vpn connections?
I’m increasingly seeing VPNs blocked. I’d like to deal only with organizations that respect privacy.
Thanks to all who contributed to this months #emacs carnival: curious.port111.com/2025/11/0…
It was a privilege to host and to apparently inspire people to share their “People of emacs”. I think my hunch was right: emacs is very social.
Great #emacs carnival post meanwhiling.com/a-person-…
Acdw rams screwdrivers with such joyful fervour that it infects everybody…With the right person to teach and encourage you, you come to realise the fundamental nature of emacs: emacs is just one enormous screw.