Timelies all!

They found Mr. S a bed in the behavioral unit at Childrens' Hospital yesterday. I don't know if there's much more on the treatment plan beyond getting him stable.

The temperature/weather shifts this week(what JenP described) have had me muttering "Go home Mother Nature, you're drunk.".

Since today is Pi day, Gary and I went out for pizza.

Since today is Pi day, Gary and I went out for pizza.

We're also having pizza for Pi Day dinner!

I considered it, but since I mentioned pizza to my mom for watching the Oscars tomorrow I opted to try a new BBQ place instead. It was pretty good, I tried sliders with three kinds of meat: pork, chicken, beef brisket, and was surprised that the pork was the best since I usually prefer the other two. I also saw five fire engines, an ambulance, and the fire chief's car pass on the road or heading toward it as I left, so something big was going on north of town that hasn't made the local news yet.

Despite sleeping in unexpectedly late, I got a lot done for my back yard today. I assembled the remaining privacy panel and placed it along my fence to complete the enclosure of my patio area, then got up on the ladder and replaced all the overhead tiles that had fallen from the closed eave of my storage shed. They're all reinforced with packing tape now, which is an inelegant solution but at least isn't as visible as using duct tape.

Sadly, I had no pie yesterday. I was utterly miserable with a bad UTI. In the last couple of weeks, I was swimming and hot-tubbing almost every day, and apparently, bacteria happened. Not helpful, I am sure, but instead of the quiche that I usually make to celebrate the day, I consumed English muffins and plain pasta with butter and salt. Comfort carbs.

I did think of Nilly's Pi children and hope the family is coping with the horrible circumstances in their region. Trying to keep things as normal as possible has to be challenging.

I didn't have pie, but in a weird echo of Matt's dining experience, I ordered beef brisket at dinner and DH ordered pork ribs, and his ribs slightly edged out the brisket, which I was not expecting for the same "my usual preference" reasons as Matt. There was no chicken, though. Good new place overall -- we all approved. Well done cocktails, too.

Aw. I just saw a thing that said Hulu didn't pick up the Buffy continuation pilot. Bummer. But I also saw that a Firefly animated series is in "advanced development" according to NF at AwesomeCon. Interesting.

But I also saw that a Firefly animated series is in "advanced development" according to NF at AwesomeCon.

Oh, yeah, last week I saw some kind of a teaser video with Nathan Fillion showing up at the other actors' houses. Browncoats must be giddy!

Yah, they were cute little vids.

I don’t know why, but I find myself very skeptical of the animated Firefly thing. I’ll probably change my mind many times as it progresses. Nice to see the cast all togetherish, regardless

I'm reminded that a Buffy animated series was pitched at one time and we got to see the character designs.

I left the house at 8am this morning to get coffee and a cherry turnover from my favorite bakery, and have done absolutely fuck-all since I returned. The early bird got the worm and then contentedly parked themself in front of their computer to watch an explainer video on the history of the Modern Middle East reminding me of the importance of the Iraq-Iran war to all this current bullshit, and all the many many times the US went in and did shit that they later regretted terribly.

But it's a really good video!

Also, have been doing a ton of research on AI and I'm sorry to report that the future has arrived and there are no brakes on this frickin' freight train and a lot of classic sci-fi tropes are being actively deployed. Not in a "we're working on this wacky notion" way but in a "we're bringing autonomous humanoid robots to market."

Yeah, so literally, they have autonomous human robots now that will be on sale soonish. (This year or next year.). I saw the demo video of one cleaning up a living room.

My favorite for sheer wackiness and "oh shit, they already did that" is that a company figured out how to glue a tiny AI controller onto cockroaches and guide them directionally, and they can be sent out to surveil places that cockroaches can get to.

The German army has already bought these and they are in deployment. Cyborg cockroaches spying on shit.

Anyway, those are just examples that are easier to visualize, but some other more profound changes are afoot. So if you were worried about AI slop and copyright violations, that's about eight paradigm breaking changes ago now.

Agentic AI, Embodied AI, Continuous Memory AI, Reasoning AI, World Model AI (as opposed Large Language Model. That is...AI that learns and references from the real world) - they have all taken massive leaps forward.

Facebook just blew a billion on buyiing Moltbook which is a social media platform for AI agents. So they can talk to each other. That's a great idea! Definitely won't have any unintended consequences.