It was about time to get a new COVID shot, and Novavax just came out with their updated vaccine (for Omicron, I think). So I looked to see where I could get it. The options in Colorado Springs were CVS and Costco. There’s a CVS a couple blocks from my office, so I went on…
After 20 years, WordPress finally broke my custom theme badly enough that I decided to update it with a modern one rather than learn enough PHP to fix the old one. Just know that the slightly more modern look was thrust upon me–I didn’t want it. I hacked this one to make it look as…
Now that ChatGPT does image processing, I wondered how it would do on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test. I’m pretty terrible at this test. Even for the ones that I get right, it feels like a random guess. I wish I’d recorded my score the first time I took it, but I…
Has anyone else noticed UPS’s new potato camera? Last year some time, FedEx started sending photos of packages they’d delivered. Because FedEx is truly terrible at delivering packages to me, I’ve found it a useful feature to know that they did indeed leave my package on some random porch that’s not mine. Here’s a sample…
After Erin Kelly (who I didn’t know) died doing it last weekend, I’ve spent some time considering the risk/reward ratio for rally, and it’s unclear to me that the reward is worth the risk. I’ve spent even more time considering the effort/reward ratio, and the results are more confusing. I don’t want to tally the…