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
Automated Archives for April, 17th 2026
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Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-2
Net Elo Change: +22
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- April 17, 2025 (2 posts)
- April 17, 2024 (2 posts)
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
Sore and Scratchy
For the first time in my career, I am canceling a work trip due to illness. Up to now I have always managed to dodge illness and trips, but I was supposed to be flying out tomorrow and going overseas and I just can't see that being a good idea here.
April 12th, 2026
Just heard a great analogy that makes the measurement of a good life being that you have more wins than losses each week. Which means getting four wins out of each week.
Big Mistakes (2026) on Netflix
We're three episodes into the new Big Mistakes series and so far... I'm meh. I struggle with shows which are just lots of interpersonal yelling, even if for comedic purposes. We'll see how it goes.
