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.

  • honesty wins more friends than enemies

    since posting my rant the other day about twitter, and the products/methods/ebooks that pump up your follower count at any cost, one thing’s become clear to me: honesty wins more friends than enemies.  this should be fairly obvious, but apparently, to some, it’s not.  just take a look at the comments on this post and…

  • Bullhorns are overrated

    a little late in finding this but seth godin points out on his blog that: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value. which more or less proves my point. Seth’s Blog: Bullhorns are overrated.

  • How not to use Twitter

    I’m done.  Seriously, I’ve had it.  I’m done with the lies and the hype and the spam and the spin doctoring.  I’m done with “twitter methods” that promise thousands of followers and fame and fortune and all they really deliver is spam, affiliate marketing, and zombies – the precise thing they claim to avoid. You…

  • states that allow same-sex marriage vs. states that allow first-cousin marriage

    yet another statistic that makes me want to claw my eyes out and/or move to canada.  possibly canada isn’t remote enough…are there rooms available on Sealand? (via The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan @ the Atlantic and @Agent_M )

  • embed google apps documents in a wave

    while the fact that google wave isn’t natively integrated with all things google already — something that still baffles me; this is the technology that’s going to take over the world, isn’t it? — this particular trick works brilliantly and cleverly disguises the fact that your document isn’t actually natively integrated into your wave. first,…

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  • Free Desktop Wallpaper: Dark Clouds

    We’re starting the new year off with a brand new calendar wallpaper.  This time we went all out and made one for those of you sporting dual monitor setups.  This design started with an idea I started playing with a couple months ago for a blog background.  It didn’t work for that, but I came…

  • thanksgiving beard

    the thanksgiving beard.  it’s all coming off tomorrow.

  • tonight, on sick sad world…

    omg, these people scare me.  and i’m not too far removed from them, which is scarier still… this last one is especially good if you go to the page on youtube because even the description gets snotty…”i happen to know the rules, but i understand it may look weird to an outsider” [paraphrased]

  • I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?

    Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?. Gaiman.  ’nuff said.