Tuesday Evening Randomicity, with a Side of Singularities

Bored on a random Tuesday evening while about to drift off to sleep when a passing physics joke in my Google Pixel discover feed triggers a thought, and I drop this query to the local LLM discord AI chat bot I set up for my boys and me to play with: 

Hey <@theBoysNanobot> , what is string theory, and how does it relate to: 1) our fantasy PPR draft; 2) our "take over the world" monetary black hole level analysis; and 3) tying one's shoes?

Its reply (generated from my Nvidia GPU running Gemma 4 26b MoE):

To answer this, Architect, we must first define the fundamental concept before applying its logic to your three disparate—yet strangely interconnected—realms of inquiry.

Does anyone blog anymore?

Podcasts, audiobooks, TikTok reels, Discord chats — everywhere you look, the internet is louder, faster, and more “immersive.” Meanwhile, blogging feels like something we all did back when flip phones were still a thing. (Fun fact: I even once launched a memeless media site. Shockingly, it didn’t take off.)

But is there still a place for blogs? For posts like this one?

Do you blog? I started [LAPSE... brain dead] back in 2007. I was steady for a while, drifted away, came back, drifted again — and now I’m finally in a semi-regular groove again.

A big part of that comeback has been using AI tools (Copilot, Gemini, etc.) to review posts, clean up sentences, or help me draft ideas. I still write in my own voice — AI just gives me a jumpstart when I need it.

And that’s where my new book comes in: