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I just took my La Z Boy to the street after 10 years of service. It's still quite comfy, but we got a new couch and have to give up space.
But I had the funny thought that at some point in the future I get to experience the sheer joy of bringing a La Z Boy recliner home again.
April 18th, 2026
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Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
- Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
- Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting
- Casus Belli Engineering — mmagueta
Chess For the Day
Record: 0-0-2
Net Elo Change: -11
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- April 18, 2025 (1 post)
- April 18, 2024 (1 post)
- April 18, 2023 (1 post)
I have a ratchet set somewhere and I cannot, for the life of me, find it anywhere in the house (not that that is surprising honestly.)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Since we watched the first, we continued in to watching the second one. And, look, it's a kid's movie. That's the most important thing. But, as entertainment for adults - it was bad.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
I had watched this previously on an airplane, but I dozed off multiple times. So the wife and I gave it a watch last night.
Using my phone as a computer speaker
I am aiming to have a productive day today. I have a to task list and everything. But there are also audio files on my computer I want to listen to and rather than go through the trouble of transferring that file to my phone, I thought it would be cool to be able to pipe my computer's audio over the network to my phone. That way as I move room to room I can stay tuned to the audio.
Enter AudioRelay, a windows freeware, and a free Android app. I installed both and they synced and it works seamlessly.
I don't know how often I'll use it, but in this case it is a good solution for me.
But what does progress even mean, if it doesn't include better lives for people who work? What is the point of greater efficiency, if the money being saved isn't going anywhere except into shareholders' bank accounts? We should all strive to be Luddites, because we should all be more concerned with economic justice than with increasing the private accumulation of capital. We need to be able to criticize harmful uses of technology—and those include uses that benefit shareholders over workers—without being described as opponents of technology. - Ted Chiang
April 17th, 2026
I spent much of this morning reviewing Mary Meeker's 2026 report on AI. I have some thoughts that I might put into a blog post. But the thing that really struck me is that the biggest reason I think capitalism holds so strongly to people is that it directly creates a scoreboard in terms of money. People like rankings, they trust them (regardless of if they are told that they should or shouldn't) because they value ordering and knowing hierarchy.
I had a very Big Fish / Pleasantville coded dream about fleeing Seattle to a rural town during a nuclear war. It was... weird.
April 15th, 2026
April 14th, 2026
Ozzie, our smaller dog, only ever howls in his sleep. I always wonder what he is dreaming about when he does.
April 13th, 2026
"How I Read 44 Books Last Year"
Very solid advice:
My #1 trick is momentum: I try to read fifteen pages or more every day.
I developed this to avoid a rut I often fell into: I’d read slowly, put the book down for days, forget the plot or why I was interested in it, and abandon the book.
Reading a few pages every day keeps the story fresh and keeps me inching forward.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. ― Stephen Jay Gould
