Simpsonian

This album was an immediate revelation for me.

We're into the heavy hitters now—this is one of the few jazz albums I picked up prior to this experiment, based on its universal praise.

Given that the primary feature here is a solo female vocalist—Billie Holiday—I couldn't help but compare this album to the earlier Sarah Vaughan album.

After Ms.

This one is a slower burn for me: obviously Sarah Vaughan is an incredibly talented vocalist, but this doesn't quite get my blood pumping like the last album; sometimes her melodies go a little too all over the place for my taste.

Not really knowing anything about these box sets in advance, I embarked on this project with some trepidation that I had signed myself up for fifty weeks of crap.

Right—the holidays are over, the Christmas tree is fuel for the fire, and the worst of the NYE champagne bottle shards have been swept up; it's time to get serious.

Right—the holidays are over, the Christmas tree is fuel for the fire, and the worst of the NYE champagne bottle shards have been swept up; it's time to get serious.

Over the past year or so, I've been focusing on owning my music collection (rather than streaming it from somewhere), and being more deliberate about what I listen to.

Here's a quick quiz for you: what holiday season tradition is the #1 contributor to the ongoing climate crisis?

Hawk-eyed readers might've noticed a stealth addition to my projects page the other week: Emoji Summarizer.

(Note: this essay was originally submitted for the Astral Codex Ten Book Review Contest 2023.)

Friends, as we all know, pride is a sin.

When looking at PC cases for my most recent build, there were many adequate options, but only one stole my heart: the be quiet!

Sometimes in this life, you aren't sure that something will work, but you have to try it anyway.

Well, it seems the thing du jour is to share one's ChatGPT experiences, so here's mine: yesterday marked the first time in my life that directly asking a question to an AI provided a clearer, better answer than searching the internet myself.

This past weekend, I was trying to set up some software on my NAS1 (that's network-attached storage; think "small server with some hard drives attached") and accidentally borked a thing along the way.

Lately I've been playing around with writing a feed reader in Rust.

Quick, what does KFC stand for?

It seems that biking across the Golden Gate Bridge is perhaps the quintessential San Francisco tourist activity.

Note: I've chosen to present this in a stream-of-consciousness manner, as opposed to a cooking-show-style "cut to the final product."

When I fly to the States, I usually fly Porter, because they're often cheapest, and I'm a cheap-ass.

I'm no sysadmin greybeard, but last year I set up a ROCKPro64, mostly to self-host Miniflux, a RSS reader.

Of course, I didn't go on this trip alone—you'll find my wife's thoughts in sidebars like this one.

Swift Sum is a game that tests players' mental addition skills.

If you're charmed by the trailer and no minigame hater Then I think you should play Later Alligator (ominous mandolin strumming) Ah, Alligator New York City—the sights, the smells, the slime, so much slime, and home of Pat the Alligator.

O, how lucky are we!

One minor task I had to attend to over the holidays was renewing my Let's Encrypt certificate for the first time.

The Under Presents isn't just a game: it's a magical—sometimes inscrutable—world, and a hub for Tender Claws' delightful VR storytelling.

We are currently facing an education crisis in America.