Chuck Grimmett

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  • 14″ and still coming down.

  • Blizzard update: 9in here in Peekskill so far and we have 14 more hours of snow forecasted. This deck was empty yesterday.

  • Charlie is an old soul. When we came back inside from the first round of shoveling, he took his hot chocolate over to the window to watch the birds at the feeder.

  • Our house has officially graduated from Duplos to Legos. We are less than 30 mins in and the little guy has already made some creative stuff. RIP our feet.

  • This year we received four New Year’s cards from people we usually receive Christmas cards from. New trend?

  • Oh my goodness, summer camps are already in waitlist territory. Brutal.

  • In reply to https://jeremyfelt.com/notes/note-i-now-have-3-years-of-draft-the-books-i-rea/ by Jeremy Felt.

    Make a /reading page, dump the backlog there, then put what you’ve read in reverse chronological order there going forward.

  • It is so much more satisfying to leaf through books for ideas than searching online. More time consuming, but more grounding.

    Two recent examples: Simple beadhead fly ideas and bean recipes.

  • In reply to More book editing and AI by Manton Reece.

    I sometimes have a similar conundrums when woodworking: Do I spend the next couple hours flattening this piece with a No. 5 plane or run it through the machine planer a few times? Do I carve out this dough bowl by hand with a gouge or put a carving disk on the electric grinder?

    I really like using hand tools, but certainly will use power tools to save time and energy. Where I personally draw the line with woodworking is that I have no interest in using a CNC, but I don’t mind when other people do.

    In some aspect it is the artist’s creative vision that counts most, but there is definitely a sliding spectrum on which the method of execution matters, too. An AI prompt is a kind of creative vision, but there is a lot to be said for a human grappling with and creating art manually.

  • There were some ice floes on the Hudson in the Highlands section this morning (Garrison to Beacon). Nice to see some ice on the river.

  • Stratification of my workshop dust collection bag.

  • Observation: I remember very little about the Blinkist summaries I “read” (perhaps consumed is a better word) a few years ago, whereas I remember a lot about the full-length books I read a few years ago.

    Perhaps I wasn’t taking the Blinkist summaries seriously or there is a selection bias going on (I chose to read the full version of things I was interested in and was thus more engaged), but either way they were a waste of time.

  • Eastern Hemlock branch covered in snow. The sled Charlie and I were riding came to a stop underneath this branch with tiny pine cones.

  • What radicalized me? Probably System of a Down when I was 11.

    Deer Dance could be an anti-ICE song 24 years later.

    Pushing little children with their fully-automatics
    They like to push the weak around

    We can’t afford to be neutral on a moving train!

  • Dark patterns are alive and well on Shopify. Three times in the last three months I’ve thought I was making a one-time purchase, but learned a month later I had made a recurring subscription purchase and I had to contact support to cancel.

  • I love this store map at Bruised Apple Books.

  • I made red curry soup with leftover turkey. Nice change in flavor profile from yesterday’s meal.

  • Turkey is spatchcocked and dry brining, cocktail syrup made, green bean casserole assembled, and gravy is on the stove.

  • The only thing you need to buy on Black Friday is Leave Me Alone so you can unsubscribe from all the mailing lists that spam you this week. https://leavemealone.com/

  • Black Friday deals are getting out of hand. Who is going to buy lab tests from Quest on Black Friday?