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Does My Baby Smell Like Soup?

Yup.
MusicFX: Create Prompt Based, Seamless Generative Live Sets Easily

When I “rebranded” this blog early last year, it was because I thought I’d finally found my two passions: blockchain and artificial intelligence. I was right, I’m’ still heavily involved in those industries, but it’s been a hot minute since I wrote about emerging AI technologies. There’re two primary reasons for that. First, it became…
Wrapping Up a Business Requirements Document This Week!

This post is something I’d probably publish on Snarebox if I went into more technical details, but this “layman’s draft” is more appropriate for this blog. Hopefully it makes sense to my non-IT friends. Business requirements documents are one of the larger, more important parts of my job. I write less of them in number…
The Biggest Change One Can Make

On starting life over in recovery.
The New American Dream: Renting a One Bedroom Apartment

Nic Sumners is an idiot. Don’t be like Nic.
Question for My Regular Readers

This isn’t really a “post”, I’m just checking on something. If you follow Iridium Spear, do you also see a post from the blog “Snarebox” on your Reader feed today? I’ve heard mixed reports that when you follow an author you see all their sites, not just the one you were reading when you followed…
Our Dinner at Alinea

Alinea is a 3-star restaurant just outside downtown Chicago. Chef Grant Achatz is one of the best in the world, objectively.
Where’s the Heckin’ Vacation Pics?

I know, I know. They’re still coming. I was planning on editing the photos this weekend but Elaine and I wound up having a pretty busy weekend (of fun activities) so I didn’t even plug my laptop in. Full transparency, the week isn’t looking much better! Yesterday I was at the Juvenile Court all day…
HEICups

I’m working on the final draft of my post on my experience at Alinea and I had to (I sort of wanted to) renew my Adobe account to convert my phone’s HEIC photos to something WordPress would recognize, so that’s delaying me even more. HEIC photos are a constant pain, probably for most people not…
Breaking Your Website

I’m constantly playing with technology. It’s what I do at work and what I enjoy doing at home. Although I’ve learned to be more careful at work, I generally don’t think about consequences when I’m experimenting with an idea. Recently, I wanted to explore migrating my personal site, Snarebox.com, to either Azure or AWS. To…