Benjamin D. Hutchins
@zgryphon.bsky.social
This metal can only be space titanium.
I was just randomly reminded of the time @rsybuchanan.com turned up for work on two successive nights in a tuxedo and a prison jumpsuit, respectively, because, paraphrasing from memory, "I haven't had time to do laundry." :)
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I was just randomly reminded of the time @rsybuchanan.com turned up for work on two successive nights in a tuxedo and a prison jumpsuit, respectively, because, paraphrasing from memory, "I haven't had time to do laundry." :)
I have the chorus of "Happy Synthesizer" in my head today. Could do worse...
youtu.be/yb8WuMVGLBM?...
youtu.be/yb8WuMVGLBM?...
【Megurine Luka & GUMI】Happy Synthesizer【VOCALOID】
YouTube video by reddevils500c
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I have the chorus of "Happy Synthesizer" in my head today. Could do worse...
youtu.be/yb8WuMVGLBM?...
youtu.be/yb8WuMVGLBM?...
I have a sudden craving for batter-dipped fish fillets. I don't even like fish.
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I have a sudden craving for batter-dipped fish fillets. I don't even like fish.
Once you go through the standard process of turning off/denying all the annoying stuff Windows has been doing since XP, and knock down its eccentricities (such as moving the start button back to where it belongs, in the lower left), Windows 11 feels like........ Windows 10 with revamped icons.
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Once you go through the standard process of turning off/denying all the annoying stuff Windows has been doing since XP, and knock down its eccentricities (such as moving the start button back to where it belongs, in the lower left), Windows 11 feels like........ Windows 10 with revamped icons.
... prosciutto.
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
... prosciutto.
I miss being able to post polls.
November 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I miss being able to post polls.
.@solipsistnation.outofband.management thought you might appreciate this, if only for the array of classic synths on display:
youtu.be/wLR029D2myI?...
youtu.be/wLR029D2myI?...
MiMa's cover of Airwolf Theme (extended mix)
YouTube video by mima85
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
.@solipsistnation.outofband.management thought you might appreciate this, if only for the array of classic synths on display:
youtu.be/wLR029D2myI?...
youtu.be/wLR029D2myI?...
pointillism taken to a new level, or, the origins of ASCII art?
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
pointillism taken to a new level, or, the origins of ASCII art?
There is a scandalous dearth of USB-A ports on this laptop.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
There is a scandalous dearth of USB-A ports on this laptop.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, so here is an amazing cover of the late Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 hit song about same.
youtu.be/8JLU9wXu-4M?...
youtu.be/8JLU9wXu-4M?...
Punch Brothers cover Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 3/3/22 Boston, MA
YouTube video by Less Than Face Productions
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Today is the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, so here is an amazing cover of the late Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 hit song about same.
youtu.be/8JLU9wXu-4M?...
youtu.be/8JLU9wXu-4M?...
we're going to the hardware store! (entire @alyankovic.bsky.social song plays in head)
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
we're going to the hardware store! (entire @alyankovic.bsky.social song plays in head)
Back in the shop after nearly a month. Trying to remember what we were doing. Feels pretty good, man.
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Back in the shop after nearly a month. Trying to remember what we were doing. Feels pretty good, man.
Dried cherries are what raisins wish they were.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Dried cherries are what raisins wish they were.
To the best of my knowledge, my family has never owned an electric blanket. I feel like maybe this winter I should fix that.
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
To the best of my knowledge, my family has never owned an electric blanket. I feel like maybe this winter I should fix that.
corollary: the people who MADE the damn thing have plenty of all three, and in evaluating the output of their creations, it would be really great to know in advance what the latter two were
as a computer scientist, i am BEGGING people to realize that there is no cognition inside of an LLM
no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness
I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness
I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
corollary: the people who MADE the damn thing have plenty of all three, and in evaluating the output of their creations, it would be really great to know in advance what the latter two were
It is SNOW. In MY BACK YARD.
DISGUSTING.
(By the time I took this picture, the precip had turned to rain, so it'll be gone in the morning, but still.)
DISGUSTING.
(By the time I took this picture, the precip had turned to rain, so it'll be gone in the morning, but still.)
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It is SNOW. In MY BACK YARD.
DISGUSTING.
(By the time I took this picture, the precip had turned to rain, so it'll be gone in the morning, but still.)
DISGUSTING.
(By the time I took this picture, the precip had turned to rain, so it'll be gone in the morning, but still.)
Today I learned that I've now reached an age where my formative period was long enough ago to have a "-punk" aesthetic. Evidently a sci-fi/spec-future/post-apocalyptic setting with a 1980s vibe is now "cassettepunk".
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Today I learned that I've now reached an age where my formative period was long enough ago to have a "-punk" aesthetic. Evidently a sci-fi/spec-future/post-apocalyptic setting with a 1980s vibe is now "cassettepunk".
today's forbidden craving: gyoza
November 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
today's forbidden craving: gyoza
Maine DHHS needs more variety in its hold music, if it can't do anything about reducing hold times. I can now hum that smooth jazz sax piece without thinking about it.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Maine DHHS needs more variety in its hold music, if it can't do anything about reducing hold times. I can now hum that smooth jazz sax piece without thinking about it.
It's a blustery, sleety Thursday night in paradise, and I am eating a froyo bar and watching a time-lapse video of a man pressure washing a concrete driveway.
Right now, life is... not terrible.
Right now, life is... not terrible.
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
It's a blustery, sleety Thursday night in paradise, and I am eating a froyo bar and watching a time-lapse video of a man pressure washing a concrete driveway.
Right now, life is... not terrible.
Right now, life is... not terrible.
It looked like millennials were going to take over the whole ruining-things industry for a few years there, but then women came roaring back. You just can't keep 'em down.
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It looked like millennials were going to take over the whole ruining-things industry for a few years there, but then women came roaring back. You just can't keep 'em down.
On my way home from errands today, I saw something I don't think I've ever seen before: a school bus pulling into one of the (few remaining) local motels to make a drop-off.
I don't know what circumstances compel someone with a school-age child to live in a motel room, but I hope things get better.
I don't know what circumstances compel someone with a school-age child to live in a motel room, but I hope things get better.
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
On my way home from errands today, I saw something I don't think I've ever seen before: a school bus pulling into one of the (few remaining) local motels to make a drop-off.
I don't know what circumstances compel someone with a school-age child to live in a motel room, but I hope things get better.
I don't know what circumstances compel someone with a school-age child to live in a motel room, but I hope things get better.
I see some people wondering aloud, "What happened to these guys to make them this way? Who hurt them?"
My take parallels Tommy Lee Jones's Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard in the famous culvert scene from THE FUGITIVE (1993):
DR. RICHARD KIMBLE
I didn't kill my wife!
GERARD
I don't care.
My take parallels Tommy Lee Jones's Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard in the famous culvert scene from THE FUGITIVE (1993):
DR. RICHARD KIMBLE
I didn't kill my wife!
GERARD
I don't care.
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I see some people wondering aloud, "What happened to these guys to make them this way? Who hurt them?"
My take parallels Tommy Lee Jones's Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard in the famous culvert scene from THE FUGITIVE (1993):
DR. RICHARD KIMBLE
I didn't kill my wife!
GERARD
I don't care.
My take parallels Tommy Lee Jones's Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard in the famous culvert scene from THE FUGITIVE (1993):
DR. RICHARD KIMBLE
I didn't kill my wife!
GERARD
I don't care.
Imagine if door-to-door ice (as in frozen water) sales were still a thing in cities. Two different clades of white vans roaming the city, driven by uniformed men... such glorious opportunities for confusion and comedic mayhem.
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Imagine if door-to-door ice (as in frozen water) sales were still a thing in cities. Two different clades of white vans roaming the city, driven by uniformed men... such glorious opportunities for confusion and comedic mayhem.
I'm listening to a biography of Henry VIII, and it mentions that during a hunting expedition, one of Anne Boleyn's greyhounds killed a cow, for which His Majesty was obliged to pay.
Greyhounds in the 16th century
must have been very different. Or cows. Or both!
Greyhounds in the 16th century
must have been very different. Or cows. Or both!
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I'm listening to a biography of Henry VIII, and it mentions that during a hunting expedition, one of Anne Boleyn's greyhounds killed a cow, for which His Majesty was obliged to pay.
Greyhounds in the 16th century
must have been very different. Or cows. Or both!
Greyhounds in the 16th century
must have been very different. Or cows. Or both!