Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S. lawmakers are moving to delay the International Space Station’s retirement, giving more time for commercial replacements to be built
Tired of copy-pasting prompts into multiple AI tabs, I built a small local app that asks Claude, ChatGPT & Gemini the same question.
The AIs discuss each other’s answers and produce a consensus. They are inexplicably polite.
325 lines of Python. Code on GitHub.
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It's Girl Scout Cookie season. Should be easy to get your fix.
Cannoli sings the song of her people.
My daughter in West Hollywood says it’s so bad that power is out. Totally calm here in Pasadena though.
A Kindle e-reader displaying a page of fiction, with one passage highlighted in gray: “It’s a rare man who’s made better by a bit of power.” The surrounding text describes laborers waiting in queues for work assignments and a foreman at the door of Cadman’s Ales sitting under a small awning with a large ledger.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
- Charles de Gaulle
In all my time managing data centers, we never had a recovery plan for airstrikes.
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Don't kill innocent people
Heal the sick and injured
Feed the hungry
Comfort the grieving
The idea that you could observe the quantum state without changing it is mind boggling.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You soak it in a salt brine for a week or two. Hence, beef is corned.
If you cold smoke it after that, you get pastrami.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
New 'Ride the D' Metro shirts sold out almost immediately. Because of course they did
Teenage Dirtbag
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
#MusicSky
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Nice. Hope you are enjoying the double weekend.
I’ve seen them all. We’re Statham connoisseurs!
1. Crank
2. Crank - High Voltage
3. Snatch
4. The Italian Job
5. The Transporter
The miles aren’t hard. The tacos aren’t hard.
But 24 beers in 24 hours is exceedingly difficult. I might have been able at age 25, but I’d be napping by beer six today.
I added the first book to my Libby queue
I tried training an LLM on 25 years of my own writing to make CruftGPT.
It failed.
Here's what I learned about how these things actually work.
cruftbox.com/2026/02/26/m...
It would continuously insist I had not updated the code when errors occurred.
Was working with Claude and was tired of cut & pasting logs from a server for it. I asked it to SSH in. It refused due to security concerns. It finally agreed when I gave it an SSH token and limited set of log scripts it could run. Now it is thrilled to check that I have indeed updated the new code.
Silhouettes of tall palm trees against a pale blue sky with wispy clouds, captured from a low angle looking upward. Several large palms dominate the foreground, with two smaller palms visible in the background. Bare shrub branches appear in the lower left corner.
Good morning Los Angeles
Good article on de-orbiting the ISS. Great animations best read on a desktop.
www.wired.com/story/this-i...
The NY Times guide to storing fruits and veggies. Interesting stuff.
cooking.nytimes.com/article/frui...
