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.

  • glimmer of hope?

    was talking with my friend at work who also uses ubuntu who had the following things to add: i should be able to mount my root filesystem as root while booted off the live cd. he has a SB Live card as well as onboard sound and has never had issues, however, he disables the…

  • insert explitives, bitterness, and tremendous over-exaggeration

    this post was going to be titled “hello square one” because after getting the soundblaster live! card to work in linux for all of about 5 minutes, i rebooted to play some Guild Wars and when it came back, it didn’t work anymore. that has changed, however, since i am not even reaching square one.…

  • boo-frakking-yah

    after several desktop crashes, partial loads, reboots, frustration, an ingenious apt-get install that i didn’t expect to work and then finally finding the driver on sourceforge but not actually installing and going to the creative labs website looking for a linux driver that, of course, doesn’t exist, i somehow, mysteriously got my transplanted soundblaster live!…

  • starting thoughts

    so after a few hours twiddling, it becomes increasingly evident that i should pull my sound blaster live card out of my other

  • rpmchallenge

    so it’s been a long time since i posted here. i could say that i’ve been busy, but really, that’s a lie; i haven’t been any busier than usual. the trip to seattle and post-christmas stuff was stressful and, yes, it did take a while for the gavinator to get back on track, especially since…

  • greetings from….not seattle…

    so we’re supposed to be in seattle right now for the holiday. we’re not. here’s how it went. it’s a tale of woe and frustration in which we are partially at fault, but still, in my mind, the faulting parties are the airline industry. that’s right, assholes, i’m talking to you… so we’ve got a…

  • playlists

    so with the holidays comes holiday spirit and this is enforced/enhanced by holiday music. to add to your holiday cheer, i’ve created a couple holiday playlists. one is an xmas playlist i’ve been working on for a while. i just further enhanced it by adding some jpop and south park. today i just made a…

  • margaret atwood – lady oracle

    so i finally finished reading lady oracle. some books are those that you can’t put down. this was one i couldn’t pick up. for a period of months when given the opportunity to read, i chose to do other things. sometimes consciously, sometimes not. i finally consciously started picking it up again to read in…

  • free sexy babe photos

    this seemed really funny…possibly it’s because it’s late, we’re deliriously tired, and i just noticed the blog was getting spammed in the trackbacks (which i’ve disabled)…. sexy babe photos!!for more sexy babe photos, click here

  • amarok rocks my world. cedega, not so much.

    i like amaroK. i think cedega is overrated. [more=there’s a lot more posted behind this link, but it’s kinda geeky, so be forewarned…there’s pretty screenshots tho.] the good: amaroK amaroK is a multimedia player (altho, thus far i’ve only used it for music). it works much the same way my ampache-powered page does. you create…