Osier, CO on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad

Locomotive on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, Chama, NM

San Ildefonso Pueblo, NM

Santa Fe, NM

Hatch, NM

Penny’s Diner, Alpine, TX

I can’t be the only one to have noticed that Hunter Biden is an identical lab-grown clone twin of Negan from Walking Dead?

Mission San Jose, San Antonio

Another of San Juan. Clouds moving in.

Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Antonio

Espada Aqueduct, San Antonio

The Espada Mission, San Antonio

To dreep, perchance to sleam.

Look what just landed in the tree behind my apartment.

Given that I can get a URL link to pretty much any digital object I may be interested in, and can scan hard-copy documents and take pictures of real-world objects and then link to those, I’m wondering if I could generate a personal RSS feed to use as a universal One True Inbox. Has anyone tried this?

Hey @manton , you seem to do a lot of train travel. I’m thinking of heading out to the Big Bend for a long weekend this summer. Austin to Alpine is about a 6-hour drive. There’s a train but it’s a 16-hour trip. Worth it?

Any Canadians reading this? What do you put in your cars, “gasoline”/“gas” or “petrol”? (This is about word usage, not alternative fuels.) Thanks!

An insightful article about the current state of machine translation and what it suggests about the ways artificial intelligence may impact other domains. Key takeaway: AI is a tool that can change the way work is done and can even have a far-reaching impact on the structure of the market, but it still won’t be replacing human professionals just yet.

I’d rather be writing the software that will replace my job.

Trying to trim a 1.6 million TU translation memory down to 75,000 or so, to leave some room for growth before hitting the recommended maximum of 100k again.

☞ This season is about spinning the flywheel.

Kourosh Dini asks an important question: “What differentiates perfectionism from mastery?

Watching season 11 of The Walking Dead. Starting to root for the zombies.

I find myself trying to spin up three different mostly unrelated businesses plus hit fitness goals plus build a relationship, and maybe even steal a couple of hours now and then for friends, family, and community, all while still tied to a full-time job. I am a madman.