Last night’s show by Bad Bad Hats was fun. Band played their 2016 album Psychic Readings and a couple of new songs on forthcoming album.
About to head into town to catch Bad Bad Hats at Cat’s Cradle Back Room. #music
I’m delighted to have the personal feed working on Feedland. I was determined to use a Backblaze B2 bucket instead of S3, and with the help of ChatGPT, the Opalstack team, and trial and error, it works. A few wrinkles to figure out, but my Sugarcubes linklog is showing here in Zuiker tab.
The Duke River of News has been a side project of mine for years, but I’ve not kept up with site changes across the university, so I asked Copilot (really ChatGPT) to help me find missing feeds and podcasts. I think I added 27 today. h/t @dave for the search idea and the Feedland software.
It’s a way of life:
Let’s go Bohs!
Dates for the next Agave Festival Marfa are posted, June 4-7. I’d love to return to Marfa for this “annual festival celebrating the agave and its influence on culture through food, film, music, science and spirits.”
White shed in snowfall.
With West Ham leading Chelsea, I’m now reading What Is Blackstrap Rum, Anyway?
Cold day with snow on the way. I’m staying inside to watch soccer. In between games I scraped vanilla beans into a bottle of vodka and topped off with Cruzan black strap rum; extract will be ready in 4-6 months.
On my daily walk to the nearby longleaf pine forest (a restoration project, I think) while I’m down here near Wilmington and my brother recuperates, I stopped to watch this hawk perch atop a pine pole.
Stuck inside in Hampstead, NC (near Wilmington), caring for a brother just out of the hospital. A victory by the Tar Heels over Virginia, and now a thrilling end to the Bournemouth-Liverpool match. These wins giving me a spark to get outside for another walk in the cold air to the nearby park.
I’ve donned the Morocco jersey that my friend Youssef gifted me. As much as I have enjoyed watching Sadio Mané these past years, I’m pulling for Morocco to win AFCON today.
Cold rainy day in Chapel Hill. I skipped pickup soccer to stay in bed with this drippy, sneezy nose. Now I’m sitting on the porch in front of the fire with a mug of coffee. Will hope to use the day to fix the search on my Txp blog and turn on a feature to my installation of Feedland.
Moving the stack of lumber yet again, this time into a new shed. I laid out the 3/4-inch white oak planks to think about the plan for the long table project. Getting close to finding a carpenter to help me transform my dream into something real. We milled this in 2019 so it’s been germinating long.
After my experiment with GPT-5 to get the Lopevi cartoon, I went for a search of a photo I remember from that day in the South Pacific. Did not find it on my computer but I must have posted it in 2013 (as part of Hi, project of Craig Mod).
Have decided to finally start experimenting with the new tools. At home I’m using PrivateLLM on my MacBook Air, at work Microsoft CoPilot, which uses GPT-5. I asked that to make a cartoon depicting me at rest during my 1999 hike on Lopevi Volcano, with my home island Paama across the sea.
What a delight! Josh Ritter talks and sings on World Cafe.
At Oliver’s futsal match. Here he is with new ball I gave him for Christmas. I played pickup soccer this morning. Last day of holiday break. Beautiful sunny day.
Seems I posted my music in 2026 recap prematurely. At last night’s NYE show, dealia-h invited my son Oliver to play a sax solo on the final song of her set. So proud of Oliver.
Oliver and I woke early, drove with a friend to Kerr Lake (which straddles NC and Virginia), and spent the day fishing for striped bass. Great day. We got our limit of two stripers each. Oliver also reeled in a long gar and a small-mouthed bass, and I got small white perch; we tossed these back.
