I love Old Bay, but I can’t stand the taste of crabs.

Baby tomatillos

I tried out Dia for a week, but I don’t think I am going to make it my default browser. I am sticking with Arc for now. I strongly prefer Arc’s sidebar, URL bar in the sidebar, and Apple shortcuts in the share menu, which I use daily.

I’m not going to uninstall it. I’ll still probably use Dia’s chat and tab comparison features for research and brainstorming, just as I use Chrome, Firefox, and Safari for specific tasks. I’m also interested in seeing how it evolves over time and will launch it occasionally to check in on their progress. It is still in beta, after all.

Sometimes a book needs to sit on your desk and look at you for a while before you’re ready to read it. Like a lover, its gaze catches your attention, slowly drawing you in. Then, when the time is right, it reveals its secrets.

A faerie definitely sits here sometimes.

NY Post-level headline pun from the local library’s monthly newsletter. Amazing.

From @made_in_cosmos on Twitter:

recently I asked my husband some random dumb question and he was like “why don’t you ask chatgpt?” and I told him, is this really what you want to do, outsourcing our random silly chitchat to machines, and he agreed I should keep asking him

this is how we stay human

One of my favorite things about Charlie is his wonder and all the questions he asks that make me stop and think. I try my best to puzzle through things systematically and out loud so he learns how to evaluate and speculate based on observation and evidence rather than defaulting to asking AI.

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes we still ask AI or do regular searches when we are stuck, but I’m trying to not make that our default. I also like consulting books first when possible, and we are building up our house library accordingly.

Colin Cowherd’s heuristic on how to determine whether someone belongs in the hall of fame or not:

Start from the beginning and try to tell the story of basketball. Are you capable of telling the story of basketball truthfully without mentioning that person’s name? If yes, they do not belong in the hall of fame. If no, they belong in the hall of fame.

I updated my post linking/link blogging shortcut to include an optional content snippet if I want to say something along with the like. I’ve wanted this for a while, and it only took 10 minutes.

Paddling up the Croton River on the last morning of my sabbatical. Photo by Jeremy Wall.

Picked currants yesterday at Fishkill Farms.

I’ve tried, but I honestly have no interest in participating in any Discords. Not my medium.

Paddled Constitution Marsh today and cut it close getting back out under the train trestle. Had to squeeze as far down into my kayak as possible and pull myself through using my hands and the bridge itself, fighting the current. Glad no trains went by while we were underneath.

🦞

Success

After months of downtime because I decided to try to switch to an unstable Debian branch and botched it, I’m finally reflashing my FreedomBox and starting fresh.

🍃🐛

13 wild browns today on my TenkaraBum 36. Sulfur comparaduns, elk hair caddis, and stimulators were the main producers.

While I was out fishing yesterday, when the wind blew there were rises like crazy in the pools. Took me a few times to figure it out, but little green inchworms and spongy moth caterpillars were falling out of the trees! I had to tie some of these up to try again there next week.

Caught some beautiful wild browns on the upper west branch of the Croton.