Category: Weeknotes

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The Big Green Egg that departed last week was in exchange for a beautiful dining table and a set of Bose 901 speakers, both vintage and both looking sharp. This weekend, I acquired the necessary cabling and hooked up the EQ for the speakers—they sound amazing. We’re looking forward to many delicious meals at that table while listening to the smooth sound emanating from those 901s. Thanks, Carl!

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Photo of two Big Green Eggs flanking a pizza oven outdoors in New England during the winter. The egg on the left has smoke rising from it and the pizza oven has a visible wood fire inside.
Eggs and pizza!

I forgot my phone one day this week. I hadn’t gone far and could have gone back for it. But, I decided I could survive a work day without the infernal thing. It was wonderful not being interrupted by it throughout the day, and I only felt an ever so slight disconnected feeling once, or maybe twice. The only real bummer was the basketball game invite that I didn’t see in time. While I’d like to say this made me totally rethink my relationship to technology and am going to forgo all mobile communications, my phone hasn’t left my side since.

Hot on the heels of last week’s human.json, I added an AI policy to this site.

On Saturday, we successfully extracted the Big Green Egg from the deck at the old apartment. I was worried we’d have trouble getting it down the stairs, but it turned out to be lighter and easier to handle than than expected. It now resides on a farm in the country with other, old Green Eggs.

This also gave us an opportunity to have one of our infrequent live jams. Jamulus is amazing in that it lets us play together every week, which would be impossible otherwise. But live is so much better. I think we sounded pretty good, I hope the neighbors agree.

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After seeing mentions of The human.json Protocol not once, but twice this week, I added a human.json file to this site. Seems like a good idea. It would be good to have a web of trust that indicates whether the site you’re looking at is run by people or by LLMs. Their browser extension does just that. So, I hope this has legs and more sites do it.

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Photo of an abandoned brownstone in Brooklyn, the front door is filled in with cinder blocks. There is some street art on the cinder blocks, a tag and a rendering of a city skyline with the text "City Boy"
Chris and Snoop might need different tools for this one.

Did a bit of IKEA assembly this weekend, made easier with the help of a friend. Also cleaned off the deck at the old apartment for (I hope) the last time.

I think we’re finally getting to a point where it doesn’t feel like every spare minute is spent on some sort of chore or decorating job at home. That means I should be able to get back into some projects I’ve had on hold. I’m not quite ready to resume the jukebox, so I might hack away on a new and improved Good Morning Display.

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