It feels like a Friday and it's definitely not a Friday.

This should have been a purely happy celebration day as we went to the hospital and met our new grandson for the first time, but it ended up being really stressful and sad for completely unrelated reasons that are mostly worked out now. Our grandson is a super-cute chunk though!

Had some instant ramen (with lentils) for the first time in like three years (Mary doesn't want to buy it any more) after noticing it in my office stash last week. I'd rate it as okay, but it was my quick, cheap, comfort food of choice for years so there's some nostalgia going on.

Spurs lock down CB Marcos Senesi, and I can only hope that Jan Paul van Hecke gets wrapped up shortly too so we can safely wish Christian Romero well in his post-Tottenham endeavors.

Carmela Conroy will need more than math to get to Congress
Conroy seems to have a solid resume, but has no it-factor. Until a qualified and charismatic alternative candidate enters the Eastern Washington chat I don't see Baumgartner getting voted out (which absolutely sucks).

Martin talked about his radical Neovim customization on the latest Linux Matters podcast. It’s hilarious, but it makes sense in that it’s the best option for setting up a modern IDE in the terminal and why I started messing with it myself.

Already through the first four volumes of the My Dress-Up Darling manga. I'm too much of a completionist to not start at the beginning even even though volumes 11-15 are the new material I'm looking forward to. And the fact of the matter is that it's just as enjoyable in its own right as the anime.

The latest version of Ollama supports the new Gemma4:12B model that's geared towards laptop class devices. What I found puzzling about using it in Ollama vs LMStudio was that a 128K context didn't blow up its RAM usage. Speed was also only about 10 tokens/s, but totally usable.

Apple announces macOS 27 Golden Gate and it sounds very much like a Snow Leopard style refinement of Tahoe rather than another radical GUI overhaul and feature-packed release. That's definitely what I was hoping for.

Air quality in the office is musty again. It's cool at least, but generally a sign that the AC isn't running normally, and my sinuses don't like it because it's clearly a mild trigger for my allergies.

Turns out that SCLD/Libby does have the full manga run of My Dress-Up Darling in digital form so I won't be stuck waiting years to find out how the story ends once I finish season 2.

Finished up Blue Lock season 2 tonight and really dug this season. The series as a whole ended up being way less dystopian than I originally thought after watching the first episode. Yes, there was ton of cutthroat competition, but I don't think you could ask for a better demonstration of the benefits of small-sided games for developing teamwork and players. Looking forward to season 3.

Still thinking about my command line game today. I'm no master, but I've always preferred the vim editing approach. Think it's time to get a standard neovim configuration going so that I can use it everywhere.

Just learned today that Anthony Head, the British actor who player Rupert on Ted Lasso, had passed. He was only in a little over half the episodes in the original three seasons, but he was a great antagonist figure every time he appeared, and brought a lot to the show.

My favorite thing about yazi is simply being able to shuffle all my files around quickly without messing around with a mouse (or trackball), but the in terminal previews are pretty baller!

Looks like some of my sysadmin colleagues are already experimenting with dedicated local model hosting for departmental use and testing. I haven't heard all the details yet, but I think I heard them say they can run 3 Gemma 4-31B instances simultaneously on the test box. In my mind this kind of locally hosted setup is the future of AI, cloud-based and metered is not economically sustainable.

Wow! yazi is a pretty sweet terminal based file manager. I have no idea how to do anything besides moving around with the vi keybindings, but I'm excited to learn more. The in terminal graphical previews are awesome!

Happiness is capitalizing on an MTGA Daily Deal draft token gold pricing mistake (6750 gold instead of 9000) before they realize and fix it.

I have no idea if this is a temporary alliance in his journey or what, but I love how in Blue Lock episodes 27 and 28 Isagi ends up the 10 in a perfectly simpatico midfield 3 and the 6 (Texas accent) and 8 (baby-blue hair guy) help him level up with zero drama. If they stick around this season I will master their names!

Cool, Google just released Gemma 4 12B, a model specifically geared toward running locally on 16GB laptops. Looking forward to trying it out.

Whooop whooop whooop whooop- "May I have your attention please?" It's that time of year when they test the fire alarm in our building.

I'm really looking forward to the Marvel Super Heroes set coming out at the end of the month. I don't think I've seen any non-legendary creatures yet, it will be wild if this has even more characters than Final Fantasy, which was an amazing set last summer.

Now that Netflix has realized how much anime I've been watching lately it's started promoting a bunch of cool looking slice of life shows I've never remotely heard of and I'm totally here for it. Making note of Blue Box and Akane-banashi for future viewing...

Saw that NBA Hall of Fame coach Rick Adelman had passed away yesterday at the age of 79. I remember him best from his time at Portland and Sacramento, he had some very good teams that narrowly missed out on a title.

My win rate collapsed in Secrets of Strixhaven over the last two or three drafts so I decided to quit drafting and crack my packs. Still deciding if I will buy 10 packs or just call it good for now and save for Marvel.