Chapter 1 | Page 17: Mess
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typo du jour
Jul. 3rd, 2025 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fred_mouse..look at the underlying code or moth...
- me, describing someone else's approach to understanding large language models.
Hair And Makeup
Jul. 2nd, 2025 10:02 pmquestionable_content_feed
that's just, like, your opinion, man
Ursign
Jul. 2nd, 2025 05:09 pmpennyarcade_feedI was talking to Kiko, whose entire social media diet is checking BlueSky once a week, and it was clear to me how hale and vigorous he was as a result. My own nutrition, pilfered by these deleterious forces, is patchy at best. Necessary compounds are scarce; youthful skin is a memory. I just saw myself in a mirror - for a few moments, I thought I was looking at bowling ball with a greasy napkin draped over it.
Fitting Mooring Lines
Jul. 1st, 2025 11:02 pmpachucaroundtheworld_feedI drove to PGM on Sunday (29Jul) to prepare for Bruce's visit the next day to fit Pachuca with proper mooring lines. I brought with me 40 meters of new 22mm white rope for the job.
Bruce arrived at about 10.30am and we worked until about 4.30pm which included a generous lunch break at the marina's The Deck restaurant. The winter weather was a bit worse than predicted and we were forced to cope with the gusty wind and occasional shower of rain. There was still work to do at the end of the day and I settled in for another night on the boat so that we could complete the job on the following day.
I began Tuesday morning with a breakfast of Eggs Benedict at the marina's The Periscope Cafe followed by a visit the the marina's hardstand area where I met James who I was informed later is the yard's shipwright. The hardstand area has only about 6 bays and James informed me that now was the time to book a liftout if my plan was to hardstand Pachuca in late August or early September. On the way out I checked out the travelling boat lifter and was pleased to see that the water approach to the lifting bay is simple and straightforward.
Once again Bruce arrived at about 10.30am and we resumed work in a splendid sunny day with very light winds. Our work was completed by about 2pm and Bruce set off while I attended to some business at the marina office then departed for Darlington at 3.30pm, a bit later than I had wished because it meant that I would finish my drive home in the dark of night.
On the way to the Prado I dropped off the boat key at the marina so that the boat's gas system can be inspected while I am away.
Bow lines and springer (more like a 3rd bow line) from the deck.
The boat faces the SW into the heavy gale winds.
Aft springer and stern line
Bruce doing his expert spicing.
His boat lies on the other side of the marina in the background.
For the record, here are some metrics from my drive home yesterday:
Road distance PGM at Busselton to my house in Darlington: 236km/147mi,
Drive time: just over 2.5 hours, which included a 10 min "rest" stop where I walk around, stretch my limbs, and drink some coffee accompanied by something sweet to boost my energy.
I did most of the trip at 110kmh/68mph and most of the last leg at 100kmh/62mph.
28 Decades Later
Jun. 30th, 2025 09:10 pmpennyarcade_feedThere's a lot of focus on the brains and the flesh and whatnot - long, ragged strips of manflesh, juicy like a papaya. But what do zombies want in the long term? Has anybody even asked? Or are they too busy running away from zombies in the corrugated metal maze of a favela? Look. We're always being told to let people cook, with questionable results. Wastrels, "writers" and the like. They've been extended a blank check; an unlimited opportunity to cook the void. Thankfully, the 28 Days X franchise is bold enough to get down to brass fucking tacks.
Rebuilding journal search again
Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pmalierak posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_maintenanceWe're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Gabe's Reading List
Jun. 30th, 2025 04:55 pmpennyarcade_feedI start tons of books using the Kindle preview but end up actually buying and finishing far fewer. I lean towards hard Sci-Fi. I like inscrutable alien artifacts and massive jumps through time. If I’m not reading about spaceships I’m reading history books for some reason. I think because the good ones at least are sort of like time travel books. I’ve managed to finish a bunch of great books recently from both these genres and I wanted to share my finds here for those of you with similar reading interests.
'Typo' of the day
Jun. 30th, 2025 03:48 pmfred_mouseToday's annoyance with YouTube auto-craption:
"Current university"
Locals, who know what the tiny set of options are, can possibly identify what 'Current' is relatively easily. In my case, given that I was watching this from within Curtin University, it was even easier, once I worked out that that was what is going on.
But oh! it annoys me that people don't review the captions for even that level of obvious mistake (I'm not calling that one egregious. The ones that mess up the name(s) of Country included in an Acknowledgement of Country are egregious. I've never seen the same error for a Welcome to Country, which I assume is because the Indigenous people associated with the production of such know too well how badly it can be messed up).
Goal setting question(s)
Jun. 29th, 2025 09:39 pmfred_mouseNow that I've written up the six month summary of how my 2025 New Year's Resolutions have gone, I'm looking at what I want for the next six months. Which might turn out to be a 12 month set of goals; I'm kind of being flexible with whatever works.
But!
One of my intentions is that I have goals for each of the areas of my life that are important to me--there is no rating of how big that area has to be, just that I see it as an important circle. Two of these I did not manage to get a coherent goal for across the last six months. I'm not sure that it is possible to have coherent goals, but that might be me looking from the wrong perspective.
Which is where my question comes in: what suggestions do people have as to goals for 'Family' and 'Social'? I'm okay with drive by commentary from people who aren't familiar with the limitations of my life, because not knowing those details might be an important part of different perspective.
New Year's Resolutions - close out
Jun. 29th, 2025 06:04 pmfred_mouseGiven that the last three weeks have been a completely different pace, and my expectations of my self for the rest of the year are quite different to where I was at the beginning of the year, I'm going to close out the set of goals I set myself at the beginning of the year (Note: I'm not working from that page, but from an offline edited version). The last update I did was May 20th. I contemplated writing a new set of resolutions in this post concurrently with wrapping up these, but have decided instead to create an offline document of Mid-Year Resolutions. I might get around to posting that, but chances are low.
( Lots of details, possibly only interesting to me )
tl;dr: great progress for work; good progress on craft, reading, physical - exercise and health; not great on house, organisation, decluttering, writing, garden, learning, money. No goals to compare to for family or social. Having a list continues to be useful.