jazzsequence

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.

  • Free Earth Day Blogger Template: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

    Concern about the environment is a value that is very important to us.  So, amidst our series of holiday-themed Blogger templates, we didn’t want to forget Earth Day, a day in which we celebrate our planet and educate ourselves on how best to be its caretakers. The rugged burlap coffee bag and aged map background…

  • trip to moscow

    we took a long road trip with g-ma & g-pa to moscow, idaho to see the kids’ great-grandparents there.  it was a two-day drive and the kids were wiped but we were glad we split the drive up rather than try the 11-12 hour trek in one go.  the kids had a good time hanging…

  • Easter

    i took a lot of pics on easter.  here are some of our favorites…

  • the end?

    the end?

  • the end?

    could this be the end of Ashley Morgan on Upstart Blogger?  well, certainly Upstart Blogger isn’t going anywhere.  i have my doubts whether any actual funds changed hands during the recent “sale” of upstartblogger.com, so i doubt th…

  • positive identification

    positive identification

    this makes me sick: today, wikileaks released a military video and transcript they acquired depicting US helicopters gunning down a group of Reuters journalists in Iraq. the cameras slung over their shoulders were mistaken as AK-47s and RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades). the video is 3 years old, from 2007, so it’s irrelevant to get up in…

  • This is what happens when dreams become a reality (and a college…

    This is what happens when dreams become a reality (and a college kid gets a part-time job and disposable income). (from CollegeHumor) (via This is what happens when dreams become a reality (and a college kid gets a part-time job and disposable income)….

  • How I broke a javascript gallery script to make a Flash-like slideshow

    This is a story about a site redesign.  The site was for the mother of a client we’ve worked with on other projects.  It was a kind of site we don’t normally do, but we took the gig because it was a referral and someone we know and like working with.  The original site was…

  • who is that masked “merton”?

    okay, let’s put an and to this ridiculous debate. there is a feud raging across the internet about whether the original “funny chatroulette piano” video is ben folds.  i’ve taken some heat on digg for suggesting that, um, yeah, it is.  so, let’s — just for the sake of argument — pretend that we don’t…

  • adventures in the alternate reality universe of upstart blogger

    adventures in the alternate reality universe of upstart blogger