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.

  • adventures in the alternate reality universe of upstart blogger

    let me preempt this by saying that, although this is posted on april 1, this is not a joke. but it is funny.  to me, anyway. the other day i discovered, and blogged about, twitter fireball, which i reported to be the latest reincarnation of twitter r…

  • all part of my elaborate plan…

    extra extra update on the twitter fireball scam i wrote about yesterday. apparently twitter fireball was just an elaborate april fool’s day joke. riiiiiiight.  it’s really too bad i only took a partial screenshot of the site and didn’t get the PayPal button at the bottom of the page.  alas, it’s too late now as…

  • Microsoft wants to remember it for you wholesale

    An intelligent personalized agent (e.g., guardian angel) monitors and evaluates a user’s environment to assist in decision-making processes on behalf of the user. The guardian angel can… take automated action on behalf of the user for various purposes (e.g., to compensate for memory loss, to remind a user to take medicine, to assist in social…

  • LL Cool J vs. Fox News, Sarah Palin

    LL Cool J vs. Fox News, Sarah Palin: interestingly enough, i think @llcoolj has more clout than @SarahPalinUSA on this one…

  • joss whedon on faith and spirituality

    joss whedon speaks about what he doesn’t have against christianity (or anything else, specifically) and addresses some of his themes of faith belief systems in his shows. via SciFi Wire

  • terminator + c-3po + robocop + gort = kraftwerk! (via…

    terminator + c-3po + robocop + gort = kraftwerk! (via @Agent_M)

  • Free Wallpaper: lil somethin

    This background combines two things I love: watercolor and paisley blooms spread across a subtly textured paper as if to signal the arrival of Spring in all her glory, daffodils, tulips, songbirds and sunshine spreading from her fingers.  I wanted to use watercolor because it is so fun to look at, with bright colors and…

  • f*** you, clown. f*** you

    it kind of makes me belligerently angry when people try to make money at someone else’s expense.  it could be argued that this describes all commerce, but it’s a different thing when the methods used to make said money involve deception, fake product reviews and false advertising.  (you could say that microsoft is guilty of all…

  • beware of fireballs

    beware of fireballs

  • beware of fireballs

    upstart blogger is at it again.  beware of “twitter fireball” — don’t let yourself get lured in.  it’s a rebranded version of the instant-spammer kit formerly known as Genesis Rocket (which was formerly known as Twitter …