Hi, I’m Chris

I make websites and things. Lately, I’ve been experimenting a lot with Large Language Models (colloquially known as AI) to test their capabilities and to help make my job and D&D Dungeon Mastering life easier. Feel free to click around to learn more about stuff I like to do and/or am working on.

  • server uploading issues

    the jazzsequence server (actually, the connection) is having problems completing file transfers.  it seems it gets to a certain point in the upload and it just drops off.  i have a suspicion that it’s either something with my modem, or — which is my hunch — heavy bit torrent transactions for the last week and…

  • nin remix, part 1

    now that i got my iHack up and working (mostly), and a copy of iLife sitting on it, i made my first garageband remix of a Year Zero track. i had a version of “me, i’m not” that i did using linux tools, but i figure that i can reproduce that even easier with garageband,…

  • “The Novel” and, also, “The Operation”

    i called the urology deptartment at the university of utah hospital to schedule an appt. for my vasectomy.  so that means it’s official, it’s happening.  the appointment i scheduled isn’t for the actual operation, it’s for a consultation, and the operation follows, which is good since the appt. is on sept. 25 which is 5…

  • boo m’f’ing yah!!!!!

    *doing happy dance* i got the m’f’ing sound to work on my hackint0sh!! aww yeeeahh! i was ready to throw in the towel when i was trolling the insanely mac forums and found a modified cmedia driver and i tried it and awww yeeeah, success!!! i can make the little blurp noise when i turn…

  • simpsonized

    so since the new simpson movie apparently there’s this new web phenomenon going on at simpsonizeme.com. you can turn any photo of yourself into a simpson’s character. now, i think the first take is kind of crappy — it doesn’t do features too well, but you can tweak it to look more like you and…

  • energy saving, and goth as all hell

    someone told google that if they changed their color scheme from white to black it would save 750 megawatt hours a year, so they said, why not. you can check out blackle and do you google search in an easy-on-the-eyes black, which is also pretty goth. (as a sidenote, there’s already a blackle firefox search…

  • iHack

    after several failed attempts and much twiddling with drives and MBRs, i am now happily running a fully functioning (albeit silent, at the moment) copy of Mac OSX on my PC.  i had to wipe my ubuntu install but i made a full backup before doing so, so i should be able to restore it…

  • my dad would find this entertaining…maybe

    http://www.xkcd.com/274/ —————- Now playing: “Depeche Mode – Damaged People.mp3” via FoxyTunes

  • well frak me gently with a chainsaw

    warning, the following rant is of a geekish nature and has several prerequisites if you are to understand the anecdotal value of it. otherwise the “short description” is less amusing, but not jibberish. PREREQUISITES: knowledge of hard drive partitions (at least that they exist) basic understanding of linux basic understanding of GRUB is helpful basic…

  • polarity

    i realized today that i’ve been really hyper today and yesterday.  this coming off a fairly long string of being tired, in a bad mood, somewhat depressed, and feeling generally worthless and hopeless with regards to the job situation.  nothing’s changed since then, but my mood has swung suddenly and drastically.  which then makes me…