Playing with plotly tonight, I built one of the cooler visualizations of the Bible I’ve ever seen.

This is a treemap based on the word count of every book, separated by testament and then section. The colors also indicate book length, from dark …

I’m going through the HuggingFace MCP course, and in Unit 1 I’ve learned you can build and deploy an MCP server/app to HuggingFace directly, for free. Here’s my tutorial one that does sentiment analysis.

Wild.

Rewatching Office Space tonight, and I’ve caught two call-forwards.

1. When Peter is trying to avoid Lumbergh on Friday, it’s surprisingly similar to Neo’s hiding from Agent Smith at the beginning of The Matrix, which came out 40 days later.
2. Peter asks …

Every once in a while, I “edit” a ChatGPT prompt without changing it just to generate a new response. Sometimes the new one is similar; sometimes not.

I should try more often to run the same prompt a few times and evaluate the responses …

Going through the HuggingFace MCP course to learn a bit more about it—and maybe actually use it for some projects—and I was already briefly stymied by the difference between a “resource” and a “resource template.” The example …

A birthday present from my brother just arrived. They are “catch-alls” branded with Meera’s and my online brands—VerseNotes for me, Savvy Hedgehog Adventures for her.

Yesterday I had a novel and wonderful experience: “US preclearance” at the Dublin airport. I cannot believe I’m describing a TSA/CBP experience as wonderful, but it was great.

The theory is that you go through US immigration and customs in Dublin so …

I can’t believe I just now noticed that the named MEs in The Dresden Files are “bread and butter”:

“Nothing on the autopsy. They didn’t give this one to Butters. Brioche handled it, and he didn’t find anything out of the ordinary.”
Proven Guilty

Once again I have learned that, in Europe, it almost always pays to wait for a human for long-distance train ticket plans.

I just got a cheaper, faster, nonstop reservation for a journey I thought was going to take at least one change and an …

My brain is so attuned to feeds on my phone that sometimes I literally forget that I own libraries of digital books (sadly split between Kindle/Apple because of sales+silos; my kingdom for… Del.icio.us?!?!).

I may need a no-feed cleanse to remember …

Just published this weekend’s project, an automatic Bible reading plan generator for VerseNotes.

Features

• Select length of plan (e.g., 90 days, 1 year) or daily reading time (15 minutes/day)
• Select what to read (whole Bible, OT, NT, Gospels) …

Meera and I both did this hike today, though not together: she did morning and I did afternoon. The first 2.5 miles were brutal both times (1,250 feet gain, an average 9.5% grade).

I am proud of us.

My travel schedule for May is absurd.

• May 1–3: SAT
• May 5–8: DTW/DFW
• May 11–16: DTW (again)
• May 25–June 1: VIE

Days at home: 11 of 31.

Remind me never to do this again.

Afternoon snow hike at Echo Lake.

29-minute pace in the snow feels pretty good.

New travel record, I think: my flight from DTW-DFW started boarding before I got on the rental car shuttle, and I am currently on the jetway.

Previous record was SAT, where the flight technically started boarding before I got on the parking shuttle, …

The Denver airport invites me to return again to San Antonio (I declined).

I wonder if other travelers see that sign and wish they could change their flights the way I do when I pass gates for other cities.

Today’s hike: Lookout Mountain Trail outside of Golden. A beautiful first half, super weak second half. Still worth it.