Slow Thoughts. Slow Travels. Slower Updates.
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The Burning
Continuing in the Halloween theme started with The Flesh King, my wife and I sat down to watch the 1981 film The Burning. We both had a lot of fun and were surprised at just how good the movie is, considering we’ve never heard of it. Pacing is the film’s biggest strength. The big bad…
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The Flesh King
I had a blast reading this today. Recommend. A thoroughly disgusting, dark, and fun read from Richard Kadrey in 2025. It’s Grosse Pointe Blank with the magic, lesbians, and the undead. A duo of misfits has adopted a third into their small assassination business. Local crime lords give them an impossible task. Can the crew…
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Generatively Speaking
I saw some clips from the OpenAI Dev Day 2025. What follows is a little stream of consciousness as I read through OpenAI’s announcement blog posts. Apps in ChatGPT – OpenAI is looking for ways to capture more eyes for longer. This is a move to further replace Google as a home screen. Google wishes…
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AI Assisted Web Browsing Makes Sense
I’m old enough to remember Usenet, email distribution lists, and the early days of web forums. The value of those systems was in the years of conversational context lying in wait. Traversing the deep, wide knowledge took time. Distilling it took attention and effort. Then came the search engine wars. Altavista was good for some…
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Artificial Experience
I’ve used pro subscriptions to multiple consumer-grade AI chat bots for a few years. They’ve been great for things like starting research into complex topics, generating alpha versions of content, learning new coding techniques, and generating fun itineraries for trips. In that time I’ve largely danced around the hallucination and memory problems by treating AI…
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Top Speed
9/5/2025 update: These projects are defunct, replaced by some other topics, which I will talk about in later posts. I have started on two side passion projects. One is called ‘Top Speed Five’ and the other is called ‘Top Speed 45.’ I will post links and updates here once I have domains figured out and…