¶After driving for about 14 hours, I arrived at the cell phone lot at Logan International about seven minutes before Renee and Jake landed. We couldn’t have timed that better if we tried!
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¶I’m not a Pacers fan, but my midwestern roots require that I love the team’s historic Game 7 win over the Knicks today, in MSG.
¶The Cavs exited the playoffs after an admirable run at Boston, so I’m happy to turn my fandom to the Pacers for the rest of this season’s playoffs. I’m pulling for the Timberwolves in their Game 7 tonight, too.
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¶He also noted that a ChatGPT-like chatbot will be noticeably absent from Apple’s upcoming AI features. Apple executives are said to have admitted that they’re “playing catch-up” internally.
¶Sounds like we’ll get some baby steps with AI in iOS 18. I look to see Apple turn its slower pace on AI into a positive at the upcoming WWDC, touting guardrails and privacy. I think that’s a winning strategy, btw. Non-techie, “regular people” are intrigued by chatGPT right now, but they’re also concerned and a little afraid. I think a turtle that provides comfort and allays fears wins this race, and I think that’s exactly what Apple intends to do.
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¶He said: “You need one of these places that is cut off from outside activity. Send people down here for a two-week vacation, where they get their feet scrubbed, relax and can experience the benefit of hyperbaric medicine.” Despite the limited exercise equipment available, Dituri managed to maintain his physique by working out for an hour, five days a week, using only exercise bands.
¶Maybe, in the future, normal folk can head underwater while the billionaires head to space. I’d be fine with that.
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¶Which — as Khan says — is sure to bring in guests from all over the globe. “From like, literally, all over the world,” said Khan. “That’s probably the coolest thing to me. Just all of those different cultures mixed in together.” More attractions are on the way to the area, and coming this summer will be a direct flight from Mexico City. St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport will also be adding a non-stop flight to Amsterdam this fall.
¶The secret’s out - St. Pete is truly a wonderful place to visit and live. More people (and traffic!) are on the way, but I’m ok with that if it adds to the vibrancy and diversity of the area. I’m sure we’ll hear plenty of complaints at the pool next time we’re down there, though. Boomers gonna boomer.
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¶We bought tickets at the last minute, so we didn’t have great seats. We were stuck in the end section, which sort of reminded me of Block-O seats at Ohio Stadium, which I hated. Forget the audience participation, I just want to watch the game! These actually weren’t that bad compared to Block-O…this banner was really the only thing the fans had to do, and they rolled that out during a time out. Nothing like the constant up and down and shuffling of placards that comes with a seat in Block-O at Ohio Stadium.
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¶Win or lose, Huntington Center is always a great hockey atmosphere.
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¶We haven’t made it to many Walleye games this year, which is too bad because they’ve had another great season. They’re in the conference finals now, but might be outmatched. We went to game two tonight, and they just didn’t have it. They’re down in the series 0-2. Hard to see them coming back from this with only one more game in Toledo and the rest of the series in Kansas City.
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¶Time to add the salt! And time for my annual picture of expired patents on the bags of salt.
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¶Upset at how she has been depicted, mining heiress and billionaire Gina Rinehart approached the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) to ask the portrait of her – and another by the same artist – be removed from public display, according to local media....Local media have reported that the National Gallery ultimately rejected the removal request.
¶At least the National Gallery of Australia showed its spine.
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¶Apparently childish comments about someone’s appearance don’t violate House rules against engaging in personalities during debate. I’m sure this spineless decision by Committee Chairman Comer won’t have any downstream consequences at all.
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¶Our building had an ice cream social yesterday. Most of the people in our office missed it, including me. So our Office Manager arranged our own ice cream event today.
¶How was it?
¶As Roy Kent said, “Good. It’s fucking ice cream.”
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¶I’m not sure what to think of this. I guess it’s…natural....and only during wet weather.
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¶“To me, email is probably the worst because it’s become a symbol of work,” she said, adding that her research has found a direct correlation between email and more stress. “We cut off email for some workers in an organization for one workweek,” she said. “Using heart rate monitors, we found that they became significantly less stressed and were able to focus significantly longer.”
¶I remind myself daily that email is an application that can be closed. I don’t have any personal data, but I can feel the drop in stress and increase in focus mentioned in that quote when my email app is closed. It’s hard, but I’m trying to get to a point where I only check it three to four times a day.
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¶A band in Ukraine thought they would be welcoming Neil Young to the stage, in a bar, as a guest guitarist. The Secretary of State showed up instead.
¶“We thought, and we were messaged, that it would be Neil Young,” Mr Gorbach said on BBC Radio 4’sToday programme on Wednesday morning. However, before the gig, the band were in fact informed that they would be performing alongside Mr Blinken, with the news seemingly leaving 19.99 dispirited.
¶Strange days indeed.
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¶“The paradigm of search for the last 20 years has been that the search engine pulls a lot of information and gives you the links. Now the search engine does all the searches for you and summarizes the results and gives you a formative opinion.”
¶AI is about to take us from the search results era to the search opinion era.
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¶Thanks to Ukranian soldiers, he is, indeed, rockin’ in the free world.
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¶Harvard’s refusal to negotiate with the protesters appears to have ended in negotiation.
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¶This is welcome news. We’re leaving for graduation on Monday…the main ceremony is next Thursday.
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¶I started the process of opening the pool over the weekend. Looks like we’ve got a minor electrical issue to deal with (didn’t have that on the bingo card). The good news is the water looks decent - I could see the bottom of the pool right after peeling the cover back. It’s covered with dirt, worms, and all sorts of other junk, of course, but seeing the bottom on day 0 is always a welcome sight.
¶I pulled the cover off and got the robot going right away, which gave me this great before and after shot.
¶Now, on t0 that electrical issue.
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¶We fixed the electrical issue in the pool, btw. And by “we,” I mean “an electrician and I.” I had to call in some help, but we found the problem. This old timer switch, which we haven’t used in years but was still in the circuit for the pump, apparently didn’t make it through the winter. We bypassed it, and all is well.
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¶Renee and I laugh about the pervasive use of ‘journey’ these days. This article about the increase in use of the word is pretty interesting.
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¶This video from Cleo Abram is the most provocative thing I’ve seen about the Apple Vision Pro. It’s a teleportation device, or at least will be once the technology improves. But here’s the key - exploration of far away lands like a Star Trek landing party won’t be its biggest impact. That will be fun and exciting, of course, but the bigger deal is the impact it will have on human relationships. Physical distance between people will become less of an impediment to human interaction. Indeed, it might become largely irrelevant. You won’t be alone even though you live three states away from your kids. Or parents. Interactions with the Apple Vision Pro will feel like actual in-person visits. So much so that we’ll think of them as such, unlike letters, phone calls, and even modern video calls.
¶And why stop with erasing the impediment of physical distance? Why not erase the impediment of time, too?
¶They look a bit ridiculous right now, but someday a future version of the Vision Pro, or a similar product, will be commonplace.
¶And it’s going to be incredible.
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¶So, smoke from Canadian wildfires appears to be an annual thing now.
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