Accurate:
"If digital consciousness does come, it will happen long before the experts concede that it has arrived." --Steven Levy in Wired's Backchannel newsletter today.

Not why I came to Illinois, but while I'm here....

I find it amusing that my wife calls my cycling bibs "monkey butt pants"

"Commit early, commit often" is a good approach when letting an AI edit your code for you. Although it was kind of amusing watching it create a whole raft of errors and then "fix" them by deleting most of the necessary code, leaving behind a uncompilable stub.

The robin that has been camped out outside my office window for the past week or so, chirping more or less nonstop from dawn to actually after dusk is getting a little annoying. I may need to find a neighborhood cat to invite over.

If you're in Ohio, don't forget to vote!

How you know it's spring: you get the Local Legend on Strava with 2 efforts over the last 90 days.

I wonder how many other people are overly polite/chatty with their AI code assistants. While it brings me a tiny bit of joy, it also seems somewhat wasteful.

Post-Thanksgiving #thrivent cause kit assembling #winetowater #solarbuddy

Oops. Maybe Thanksgiving is a little too much.

While Gus Johnson's enthusiasm for OSU is nice, he does misspeak quite a bit. #GoBucks

We're all going to die in a relatively short amount of time so I had this weird idea, and tell me if it's stupid, but maybe we could all be kind to each other until then??

Weekend storage upgrade from Samsung 960 PRO (512GB) to 990 Pro (2 TB). Was somewhat surprised to realize the 960 was 5 years old already.