Stay Frosty
14:27 Tuesday, 24 February 2026
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It's cold, but it's still pretty.
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10:11 Tuesday, 24 February 2026
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Got a bit chillier than I think we expected. Snowed a bit more too, though nowhere near as much as southeast of us. We got about 4-6" over the weekend. Enough that Mitzi wanted to have the driveway plowed, though I think it was barely enough. Scraped a lot of rocks up. And it was enough that I had to shovel the porches and the pile behind the Maverick after the plow left.
In other news, adolescent punk Pete Hegseth is still murdering people at sea. His body count is up to 150 now, I wonder if he's keeping score. Metrics, you know. How do you know your lethality index if you don't measure it?
And the DOJ is amping up it's "domestic terrorist" narrative in advance of whatever plan they have to subvert our democracy and conduct mass arrests of citizens to be incarcerated in a system of concentration camps and political prisons acquired as part of the Big Beautiful Bill and the ruse of "mass deportations."
We are still in the shit, and it's well past "about to get real."
Connect the dots.
Tick-tock.
("Free" links to the NY Times. And don't get me started on the framing of that article about "antifa.")
✍️ Reply by emailClaude and Tinderbox
09:31 Tuesday, 24 February 2026
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I remain ambivalent about AI/LLMs. I use the free level of ChatGPT, and I find it helpful for quickly filling gaps in my knowledge about some topics. It has been less helpful on things like writing AppleScript, or converting a spreadsheet from Excel to Numbers.
I'm also aware of the negative social, economic and environmental impacts, and the generally toxic nature of tech-bro culture. But LLMs are here, and it's probably wise to learn what they can and cannot do as we consider the costs of all the externalities.
All that said, this was pretty exciting, even if I only understand about a third of it, maybe less. It's a video of the most recent Tinderbox meetup. It's Zoom video, so don't expect high production values and the occasional failure of non-speakers to mute their mic.
What isn't clear to me is what the setup is. I gather it's the desktop Claude app, though I don't know if the Tinderbox MCP is also a part of this, or if that's no longer necessary. What's also unclear is the level of service being exploited here. I'm not inclined to think this is at the "free" tier. So how many "tokens" are consumed and how much did they cost?
I could see using something like this as a "temp," where I pay for a certain amount of service to complete a particular project or task, but I'm less inclined to embrace a recurring subscription.
Still, it was pretty amazing watching Andreas speak in rapid-fire German to Claude, Claude translate it to English, and then execute the prompts he was giving.
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08:44 Tuesday, 24 February 2026
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The marmot gets more mail! I'm going to need to start a filing system for all the correspondence I'm getting. (Not really, but it is something to think about.)
This most recent communiqué is from Tom Loughlin, of a poor player. Tom's from practically next door, over near Buffalo. I replied to his email and mentioned that my niece is getting married in Buffalo this summer, and suggested that we might get together sometime while I'm out there. We shall see.
I've met a number of bloggers "in real life," over the years. The most unusual/serendipitous was a couple, whose names I can't remember just now. Her blog was something "blue," and he was the Rat Bastard. [Update: I recalled his tag line, "If you can't say anything nice, sit next to me." Loved it.] They were pretty popular back in the day when I was doing Groundhog Day on Apple's hompage.mac.com (dead link, skip it).
At any rate, I was at Al's Pizza in Atlantic Beach one afternoon/evening, I think picking up pizza for my kids. I was at the bar, waiting for my pizza and I overheard this couple talking, and something about their conversation or maybe her appearance, made me realize who they were. I had no idea they lived near Jacksonville. I seem to recall I bought them drinks and introduced myself and we chatted briefly. My brief encounter with blog celebrities.
I should probably open the Groundhog Day file and look for it. If it was during the homepage days, then it should be in there. It might have been before that, in the Time's Shadow days on editthispage.com.
Anyway, good times.
Always nice to hear from a reader. Seems like the void isn't as empty as I thought, which is cheerful news indeed.
The beat that can be counted is not the beat.
But it goes on...
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