i want a parks and rec style show but it’s you and this radio station

keep thinking about maybe occasionally volunteering with one of the stations in the area

one of these days they’ll finally move packaging and process engineering under me (agreed on at the business level just working through one communication piece) and then uhhhh idk. weird to think I’ll be leading that for a nationally distributed company.

still dealing with shingles. still sucks.

yeah im wondering if I qualify now for that vaccine…definitely going to be a conversation with my primary care provider. Fortunately, when it comes to vaccines, I live in a state that’s allowing any persons to get the COVID vaccine…

that is incredible that Alzheimer’s is the 2nd leading cause of death in Australia!!! not in a good way, but wow. I wouldn’t have guessed that.

idk if this is something you’ve done/tried but for, colloidal oatmeal baths have actually been incredible for the pain and for healing the sores from the rash!

i have no idea how people in their 50s/60s/etc. manage through this one.

that’s exactly what ive been on! it’s wildly effective and yet, still so much pain, and so much fatigue. i was fortunate to have gone in the first day the rash appeared but it had already spread very, very quickly and it was almost too late to do much of anything.

the nerve pain was easily the worst part of this, stopped me in my tracks for 3-4 days before it subsided to the “normal” pain.

shingles sucks, yo

you touched upon one of my other issues with the deer hunter - the pacing is a disaster. the first hour ish is incredibly slow pacing and then minus the first Russian roulette scene it’s a whirlwind of pacing until the end of the movie. really, really needed a much better editing job. cinematography? generally great. though you start to get some of that “everything dim all the time” approach during the fall of saigon sequence.

the main reason i watched it is as part of an effort to watch every feature length film which john cazale has been in, which, isn’t a very long list…

i was surprised because by it since i went in pretty much blind. think i prefer born on the Fourth of July and apocalypse now as far as vietnam era movies go.

the Mount baker scenes totally took me out of it hahaha, that was very noticeable since ive like, been to those spots.

pretty interesting that cimino pulled this one off since the rest of his career seems to suck hard.

fuck that with being given performance on the documentation. i hope you’re able to successfully fight that.

finally got around to watching the deer hunter.

uhmmmmmmmm

it’s pretty fucking racist in it’s portrayal of the vietnamese and vietnam war

on the other hand i finally watched furiosa which was awesome

me and my team use ai sometimes. ai being...llms...

where it helps:

- do i already know what i want and am trying to do and just want some boilerplate code to start with?

- do i want a summary slide or summary or meeting notes or etc.?

if yes to either of the above, sure, it helps. it's not worth the energy cost though imo.

that said, even the boilerplate code requires an understanding of the principles behind it to know if it's right or not...and then that is really just the easy first 30% of the work that can be jumped off of from there. specifically, using it for things like JSON, M, SQL, nothing crazy.

if i don't have a great concept yet or it's a language i'm not well-versed in, it is absolutely not helpful and does slow things down. easier/better to just watch a youtube video or spend some time in a textbook.

again, texas basically just did this. move there or give it a few years and let’s see if it makes the difference you’re hoping it does.

texas basically just did this. plus kb already mentioned prop 65.

https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/07/food-for-thought-tx-enacts-food-product-warning-labels-for-44-chemical