Turned off the streaming and settled down for sleep ~11, woke with 6:30 alarm. I was already a little stiff in the legs and glutes when I hit the gym yesterday morning, and feeling it all the more throughout the day and into today. Not severely taxed or injured, just that good kind of sore that says you're getting stronger. -But also of course a signal to back off and recover maybe an extra day. So, no sooner than Sunday. 200mg caf ~8? shower, fresh clothes, vitamin+oo, soy protein cocoa 29g let t... (...more)

I'm pretty discouraged with the state of search engines other than the alphabet-oligarch one. - LLM-powered digest responses to natural-language queries are the "killer app" of the mid-2020s - DuckDuckGo's index is less complete, and its LLM digests much more frequently just incorrect - Startpage is powered by the oligarch search index but lacks the killer LLM-digest feature - The Lumo LLM blends a powerful index with superior relationship privacy; BUT not transparent about sources The oligarc... (...more)

early to bed, wake ~5 vitamin, oo to support absorption, protein bev 29g, powders by 6:30 200mg caf and head to the gym a kind fellow showed me how to use the Smith machine for a few basic movements 2 sets each overhead presses (in front of and behind head) and curls (overhand, underhand) the usual 30-minute HIIT sprints for cardio Afterthoughts: isn't the main attraction of the Smith machine that squats work the most muscles in one motion? If you get to add just 1 machine to target muscl... (...more)

shrimp scampi :Q
continue our binge of Orphan Black S4 until I started to doze off just before 9.
Maybe an afternoon nap would have changed that.
I'd considered a half-shot of Cantrip to match Mrs g+t after dinner,
but that would certainly would have hastened my snooze.

Yesterday I refreshed my memory on the state of BRP ("Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine"), Chaosium's current foothold in the d100-based TTRPG system space. There's a long convoluted history there. 1971: Guidon Games publishes Gygax and Perren's "Chainmail" rules for tabletop miniatures wargaming 1974: D+D ("original" or "OD+D"), first TTRPG and ancestor of modern d20 RPGs, by Gygax's TSR company 1975: TSR acquires Chainmail from Guidon 1975: Greg Stafford's "White Bear and Red Moon" str... (...more)