Jim C

The problem is that immigration laws are too restrictive.

0.0103. I did guess on several but didn't get any of my guesses correct. I imagine this depends a lot on monitor settings too. I have blue light reduction turned on. I don't know if that helps or hinders.

Ha ha ha. So funny! Murdering her dog! Will the levity never cease?

Trump casually talking about invading Cuba now

Got my random kolam generator working so that it colors in components.

Funny typo "shutter" instead of "shudder." It's interesting how often "d"s and "t"s sound identical in speech.

Made a kolam pattern generator. Next step is to trace out connected components and color them distinctly.

Current listening.

We're constrained by company policy to use copilot for work tasks. But for personal use, I am cancelling my GPT plus subscription.

Thinking about switching to Claude from Chat GPT. Sam Altman showing no morals by swooping in to take Anthropic's place when Anthropic showed some ethical backbone.

My first thought was "wow, a tunnel under the San Gabriels would be awesome!" But then I read the comments mentioning traffic and earthquakes. Seems less like a good idea to me now.

At least 80 children dead as missile reportedly hits school in southern Iran The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

All we want is freedom for the people of Iran. We're even willing to kill them to advance the cause.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I'd have trouble drinking 24 glasses of water, let alone 24 beers.

Yeah, now that I look more closely, I agree. The 1,2,3,5,7 labels for each tier were throwing me off.

Memetics pollution

Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, NK Jemisin, Margaret Atwood, Nnedi Okorafor, Octavia Butler at least. If you count 4 books, there are many others.

The y-axis spacing is, umm, notable.

Eye candy.

Remember when Qadaffi was supposed to give a 15 minute speech at the UN and then rambled for an hour and a half? Bringing it up for no reason.

Nope. He is that dumb.

Had a lot of fun learning a ruler and compass construction for an Islamic design during a workshop hosted by Phil Webster. This took close to 4 hours. I still have to darken in the final design.

I make a point of coding without AI assistance every so often to try to keep my bones from gummyifying. The urge to use it is strong though. Do I really want to think through how to code a certain function or just let an LLM do it probably correctly?

Virgin Mojito (no alcohol) at Osha Thai in San Francisco.

XTC's 1978 album Go 2 has a song Meccanik Dancing, which I only now understand is a reference to Kraftwerk's "The Robots" released in the same year.

I think that's exactly right.

I was in a car once where the driver, a person who I respect as a compassionate and empathetic person, rolled down the window and tossed a candy wrapper out. I was in utter shock, like, what did I just witness?

Bondi's response seems totally normal, and not at all like someone with something to hide.

Someone mixed mint flavored chocolates in with the normal chocolates in the candy jar, and now all of them taste like mint. 😢