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.

  • what do you do with a kangaroo?

    “What do you do with a Kangaroo who jumps in your window, sits on your bed, and says, ‘I never sleep on wrinkled sheets, so change them now and make them smooth, and fluff up the pillows if you please’ What do you do?” there’s an old book by mercer mayer, before he did the…

  • capitol reef and lilah’s birthday

    we took a camping trip to southern utah’s capitol reef last weekend.  i posted some pics to flickr and on my blog, but here’s the kids highlights.  it was great fun, and the campsite had a couple fruit orchards that the kids, especially gavin, loved.  also, the orchards were great for attracting a family of…

  • how am i going to tell my kids there’s no christmas this year?

    gather ’round the fire, kiddies, it’s story time.  i’ve been hanging on to this one for a good long while, but it’s time for this rant to come out and rear it’s ugly head.  mostly, it’s a tale in which we laugh at people who have not been born with an overabundance of intelligence, but…

  • take that, corporate rock

    in a magical fairytale land, closely resembling our own, there was a bard.  this bard appeared as just another travelling musician-storyteller, like most bards, from a small town and humble beginnings.  in fact, this bard was secretly a vassal under the employ of an enormous fiefdom, taking a small cut off the top of her tips and giving…

  • capitol reef

    so we took the kids camping with e’s parents at capitol reef this weekend.  both the kids were sick, which was a challenge, but otherwise they loved it.  capitol reef is in southern utah, so it’s got all the expected red rocks with tremendous landscapes.  somewhat less expected (for me, anyway) was that the canyons…

  • how windows 7 will sell more by being free

    windows 7 ships on october 26.  when that day comes, you’ll start to see (if you haven’t already) a lot of reviews.  i’m guessing most of them will be very positive. here’s the thing: windows 7 is a very good operating system.  it’s generations better than previous versions of windows and will definitely give OSX a run for…

  • technology so cheap, it’s disposable

    the other day i tweeted about a recent acquisition.  i found a computer lying in the street in the universal, “take this, it’s free” position.  i had little doubt that was actually the intent because the moisture underneath the pc case told me it had probably been out overnight.  i took it home figuring it looked…

  • thank you, hulu

    thank you, hulu, for this gift you left for me in my inbox.  this is going to help me stay sane today:

  • Finding a web host that doesn’t suck…for dummies

    I wrote this up originally for the Arcane Palette site, but for fun I’m reposting it here, too, because I think it’s fairly useful information.  Enjoy! *   *   * We’ve all been there at some point. You’re on the phone with some bored dude behind a computer anywhere between 200 and 9,000 miles…

  • Oscar.

    Having just moved to Sesame Street, the cheapest vacancy available is rooming with Oscar the Grouch. Oscar the Grouch Graffiti I imagine living with Oscar the Grouch would be much like the Odd Couple. Oscar is never an inherently bad person, he's just grouchy. This would be most problematic in the mornings when I'm also…