One of the things I love about LA is the way cultures are mixed together in unexpected ways. Los Angeles is a city of mashups! This pizza spot I saw near downtown last night summarizes it rather well. Unlike a melting pot, where everything is merged into one undifferentiated goo, people come from all over the world and then maintain their identities. Of course that's true over most of the USA today, but it's in front of you constantly in Los Angeles.
2024-2025
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Starting in 1999 I've done a 2 second long self portrait beginning one
second before midnight on New Years Even and ending one second into the new
year. ...
How to Know Your Abstractions Need More Work
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A lot of folks are using LLMs to help them write code these days. David
Chisnall, for one, is unimpressed. He has, however, found LLMs "vaguely
useful" i...
Battery Reconditioning at Home
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These days we are all looking for ways to save money and even to help the
environment. If you came across this site you are most likely such a person
and y...
Fixer
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I'm a fixer.
I view the world as a place with solutions, not problems.
I see life's imperfections as challenges to fix.
And the imperfections haunt me.
The ...
icloud not syncing with outlook on PC
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Recently, I encountered my quarterly issue with using an iphone with
outlook. I say “quarterly” because this combination is rickety and
unreliable, and br...
The Meterstick of Self-Worth
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Six years ago today, I was told that I should think about preparing my
family for the worst case scenario. Although I was still in a
post-surgical haze, I...
Newtown-inspired data analysis
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Let me share with you a truly horrible bit of data analysis.
Inspired by the analysis of 9/11 in Nate Silver's book, I plotted the mean
number of years y b...
How I Meditate – Examen by Darren Rowse
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How I Meditate – Examen � Darren Rowse: As I mentioned above – if you don’t
share my faith background I still think that much of it can be helpful.
Stage ...
My Life in Transition
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So, in the next month, these things will be happening to me - my son Chad
is getting married, my other son Brendan is leaving for the Army and my
daughter ...
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