It's been a bit since I've checked in with everyone.
About a week after my last post I found out that I'd been moved back to day shift at work. Through a miscommunication I found this out the hard way, which is to say right after logging in one evening my boss wanted to know where I'd been all day. Long story short, I used the entire week to slowly wind my sleep schedule back to normal, getting up an hour earlier and going to bed an hour earlier every day until I was back on day shift. It didn't …
The inherent instability of working night shift aside, I've been pretty busy straightening up my life by straightening up my usual environment. Therapy cleaning, if you will.
To avoid recapping the last couple of years, after my mom died I shipped a large number of shipping crates of stuff (paperwork, research, data storage, and a large volume of family pictures dating back several decades). All of that stuff had to go somewhere, so much of it was stacked up in my office, where I spend much of my time because I work from home these days. Now and then in …
Hi, folks. I don't ordinarily address everybody directly like this. It never feels right. Just not my thing, you know?
Anyway, this is for folks who have my RSS or ATOM feeds in their feed readers. I really appreciate it - not enough folks use feeds these days or have presences outside of the walled gardens. However, there isn't any need to poll my site every ten minutes. Or every five minutes. I appreciate your enthusiasm (I really do), but I only post once or twice a month. There's no need to hammer the server quite so hard. Checking once a …
Compared to how things have been going lately, things... haven't changed much, really. I'm still on night shift at work and it looks like I will be for another couple of weeks; September at the earliest. There's a lot going on right now and things aren't in place yet. That's about all I'm in a positin to talk about, and all I really know. Everything involved in that happens during the day, and I work a good twelve hours after all of that (which is also after everybody clocks out for the day and goes to bed). So there isn't …
Okay. You've been inundated in what the industry is calling AI technology for months on end. I don't need to introduce it because the only way you could have avoided it is to have been in the middle of nowhere for the last year 1 or so. I would ordinarily have said "in a coma" but the way word gets around it would surprise me not a bit if folks would be talking about …
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I'd had some emergency dental surgery that involved some reconstructive work. And I was in the hospital a few weeks after that (which I haven't written about but might later) for something unrelated. Another thing I didn't write about was what happened after I got out of the hospital. But let's take those in order.
For starters, a few days ago as I write this I went back in for x-rays to see how my jaw is healing. The bone graft the surgeon did looks pretty good but it's not fully consolidated …
It's been a long few weeks for everyone, and I don't think I have to recap all of the fucked up stuff that's happened in the world. It's a lot. It's everything. There's little point in recapping everything because by the time I have a list Satsuma Harkonnen and his cronies will have done even more fucked up stuff.
Keep an eye on disppeared.us, yeah? Sooner or later you'll start seeing names you recognize. And if that site stops being updated, worry.
I don't think I need to recapitulate everything that's happened in the last week. There's little point because you've heard about it, and either you're okay with it (in which case, please fuck off into the nearest black hole ASAP) or you're not. It is a truism that Those Fucking People on board with SatsumaHarkonnen always accuse everybody else of what they're doing (or about to do), just like your classic school bully. Specifically, That Kid that everybody knew had something way the hell wrong with him that nobody ever did anything about.
It's only a matter of time when it starts happening to folks who were born in the US.
For starters, some hearts-felt advice: Don't come to the United States. It's too dangerous. It doesn't matter if it's for vacation, for a conference, to see family, or what, the risk is too great that you …
It is highly unlikely that you've missed the events of the last month or so. If you were sufficiently fortunate to have been in a medically induced coma, you missed Donald Trump not only alienating every possible ally the United States still had on this planet but starting a trade war by enacting a tariff policy which appears to have been generated by an LLM which, predictably, fucked up badly.
