“Bring out your bead!” “No, no. You’re picking up dead, not selling bread” “But I like bread.” “You’re not going to sing are you?” “I formed a group.” “Dont tell me…” “They’re called Bread.” #writing
“If your life is a treadmill and you aren’t going anywhere, why is there one in your house?” #writing
“He laughed like he meant it—he didn’t.” #writing #throwawayline
Remember when Girl Scouts sold cookies door-to-door and the cookies actually had flavor? Now they are a cookie conglomerate with stands in malls and shopping areas.
“If your life was perfect you wouldn’t strive for perfection. No one would. That should tell you something about life.” #writing
Concrastinate: v. - to attack a task or problem. The opposite of procrastinate. #writing
“Actually, a programming language should not be difficult to understand.” - Starting FORTH - Leo Brodie Most programming languages today have forgotten this, including Swift. #programming
I think I’ll make a peanut butter cheesecake–or try. However, I need a new springform pan. The old one needs to get tossed. #baking
Hm. There is a FORTH for a RaspberryPico? That might be fun for hardware control/IOT #raspberrypico #forth
Current “AI” is about language models, not intelligence. Given this, even a parrot could be classified as an AI. #ai #llm #failure
Hm. Sports app also doesn’t have pre-season games… #sports #apple #failure
I guess I can get some wings and run some errands now.
“Do you smoke?” “No, I Chewbacca.”
Time for some music. youtu.be/81lMAReby… #music
Time to dig out my Leo Brodie FORTH books… #forth
Success! I got gForth running, but I wasted a couple of hours trying to figure out why it wouldn’t run on one of my Pis. Turns out I was trying to run it on a newer version of a Pi4 and apparently that doesn’t work. Once I used another Pi4 with an earlier version, it all worked. …
Who plans on sleeping in tomorrow?
Back home again. Time to catch up and do laundry and such.
Unlike yesterday, there is a long line to get into the show. Glad I’m registered. #fountainpen #baltimore
Hm. A hotel run by kobolds. #writing #prompt
Happy National Rescue Cat Day
I should post about why bullet journaling doesn’t work for me. I should do a lot of things. #bujo
Hm. Readwise has a read later app? May have to look into it.
A followup. There are implementations of FORTH on RaspberryPi, including a “bare metal” one. I dont want to tie up one of my Pis, so I may opt for the more standard one, gForth. peterwawood.blogspot.com/2014/07/i… #programming #forth #raspberrypi
“I have so much to learn that I am overwhelmed that someday I may learn it all.” #writing #throwawayline