Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

I never used AI for art or writing, except when Dalle-2 first came out (this was well before anyone outside of graduate level computer scientists even had access to it) where I generated like 1-2 images and went "nice, anyway, back to CtrlPaint". I've always hated AI-generated images, minus that first exploratory period, once the techbros got wind and tried to get rid of artists. No. Screw that. Lol.  I used it for coding sometimes, but then realized it was making me weaker. I always refused "vibe coding". That term sounds extremely stupid because it is, in fact, an extremely stupid practice. Instead, I tried to use AI while understanding what it was doing and being the primary driver. But then I decided to try and go "AI-minimal" on code. I only used it if I was stuck on a physics formula or something that was difficult to source.  But at work, I was still using it too much. Sure, we have copilot licenses, but how much was I actually learning? We can ...

Instead of starting the gym between 5 and 5:15 am like I used to, I've been getting there closer to 6 on WFH days. This means I often pansy out on lifting at the rec center gym, and go to my tiny apartment gym instead, and then I have to rush and cut out sets regardless of which gym I choose.  I think this is simple. The two in office days cause some overflow, but in reality, I simply ADHD my way out of about 45 minutes after work, which pushes writing, art, and code too late, and sometimes I hyperfixate on one of them, then I don't shut down by 8 pm as planned, and don't get to bed by 9 or 9:15 to be up by 4 or 4:15. This didn't happen before because my last job forced an 8 am start (which sucked. Let's be real) and my previous job, I did not have a solid writing/art/code routine yet.  This is getting annoying. Then, half the time I have to make an extra restroom trip or something.  It cascades. Late work start causes the rest.  Proposed solution: I NEED to start w...

It's so depressing driving by that abandoned place. I never went to Evermore. It billed itself as a fantasy theme park. Lol. I love fantasy, I love cons, I love theme parks, and I never ended up going. It wasn't a theme park.  No rides. Except the train, which according to Jenny Nicholson was, well, as poorly run as the rest of the park. You cannot have a theme park without any rides.  It's a place built for the hyper-extroverted, zero social anxiety brand of Utah nerd, who is fine going up to random people and talking to them, since that's what you were required to do, in order to get anything out of the space. I read this and went AW HELL NAH and then didn't go 😬 and then it closed.  I would love a dragonsteel village expansion and bookstore. Brandon has built such a cool empire. Sure, it would be nice to actually have rides there, but that was never going to happen. The suburban GP of Pleasant Grove absolutely would not allow it. Too noisy for their peaceful bed...

1. buy domain on porkbun 2. register an account on cloudflare (I just used GitHub) 3. you can just create your astro project using  the cloudflare howto , but make sure that your node and npm are up to date. i had to update node on windows by a manual re-download then update npm via git bash right after.  4. create a git repo and connect it to the astro project, run the astro project and make sure it shows up on localhost 5.  follow this , but delete any DNS records that redirect you to porkbun too, in addition to the steps they give you. you can do it before or after, but you have to do it. porkbun redirected me to an uixie.porkbun url and a 207.x series of IP addresses, which is what takes you to the default "hey this website exists" porkbun landing page. these were A records and CNAME records and I had to nuke them into the sun so cloudflare would regenerate them properly. (it also feels super illegal to delete the porkbun nameservers to replace them with daddy cloudfl...

Dwordle is dead it seems, and I don't have the energy for symble, at least not right now. But metazooa is back in the rotation because I miss playing it and dropping results in zulip. That and my signout message of 🌊 in slack. Little things that make me feel like I'm still there, making movies and planning to never leave.  I wasn't even the one who dropped the 🌊 at dwa, but I do it now.  So now we have wordle, strands, globle, parkle, and metazooa in the daily puzzleslop rotation. 

Life is the impact of a falling brick wall of rain Coming down on your long walk home, when your thoughts are sobering... life is your consciousness, as you tame your wild beasts, where exhaustion is the currency that you must pay for sleep  thanks david.