Found Pins for Pinboard. That should help a bit. I’ve been looking for a better way to get stuff into pinboard. This seems to be it. This should pair nicely with Omnivore.

Pinboard or Raindrop? Decided to stay with Pinboard for now, but it desperately needs some housecleaning.

Should be Crimson King Court.

Now using Omnivore to collect long form posts that need some time to digest. Such as this one: On ChatGPT – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry.

Ripping through the feeds this morning. Followed a bunch of folks on Mastodon last night. Unfollowed some of them this morning. Just managing the firehose.

Lattés from 9th Bar coffee in Palm Harbor. Pretty dang good and a much shorter line than the Starbucks down the block.

Still on the road. Central Illinois is flatter than North Dakota.

On the road again … 🎵

I was thinking of using Chat GPT as a way to break writer’s block – kind of like morning pages but on a particular topic. Something to grease the skids. But $20/month for Chat GPT Plus is a bit steep for that.

📚I’m about 2/3 of the way through the audiobook “Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field” by Nancy Forbes, narrated by Patrick Lawlor. I thought it was going to be a bit of a slog, but it has turned out to be quite entertaining.

I’ve moved from mstdn.plus to universeodon.com. It not only matches my interests a bit more, but mstdn.plus has been a bit unreliable. I could see how this could be a problem with a set of independent federated instances. Hopefully my new one will be a tad better.

After eluding traps for two days the pantry-raiding rodent has been finally been dispatched.

Experimenting again with Linux on my little System76 box. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve tried this and always end up asking myself “Why?”. I crave its simplicity, but I curse it for the same reason.

One of the perils of living in the country - mice - pantry raiding mice. Grrrr.

Posting here should crosspost to my mastodon instance. Right?

I’m happy that Jason Kottke is back publishing at kottke.org.

Today’s workout: Shoveling snow/slush/ice off the drive. 200+ shovelfulls @ 10-20lbs each. I expect to be sore tomorrow.

Starting to record books with Epilogue. Catching up with 2022. Queuing 2023.

The best part of Thanksgiving is the grazing on leftovers that happens on Friday.

I tried to make clear ice cubes using the double boil method. They might be just a tad more clear than usual. It wasn’t worth the effort.

Cold pizza for breakfast is the best but should not repeat this tomorrow!

I wish I could think of a novel idea for this post but, alas, none occurs. C’est la vie.

I’m not sure I’d ever tire of the upcoming season. I love the old carols, but you can have “Santa Baby”. Sorry Eartha. 😎

📚Just finished the audiobook “Troy” written and narrated by Stephen Fry. Loved the narration in this one.

Does every DJ/band at every wedding in Wisconsin play the “Beer Barrel Polka”? Seems that way.