Today’s soundtrack: Delta Airline freebie earbuds and whatever is random shuffling on this old thing:
Spring Awakening Tony Performance
Easily in my top five favorite musicals. l still listen to it often. Thank you Duncan for all of the gifts you’ve given us.
Today’s soundtrack: Two-Hour Mix of the Jazz in Haruki Murakami Novels. A fantastic playlist. Very accessible for those not normally into jazz.
OpenAI says it found more instances of AI models acting deceptively | CNN Business
Train the machine on human data, expect it to take human actions.
This morning’s soundtrack: The first seven songs from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour.
Ten days into her college life and this young lady is doing great! She’s made lots of friends, loves her classes and professors, and spends Sundays in The City with friends eating and shopping and seeing shows (today it’s Heathers). So darn happy and proud of her.
I’ve been mentioning this privately to friends for months now. Wary to post anything about it online because it’s a pretty big cart to drop in front of a midterms horse (need to get that horse saddled or none of this will matter).
And, yet, we also need to be preparing for it. So…
Current Thought Pattern: The ability to think in and act on binary thinking (black/white, right/wrong, good/bad, etc) is privilege. One that most don’t have.
A high horse makes it difficult to see the people just trying to stand on their own two feet.
“Serve the role you’re asked to serve.”
My friend David Sparks said this in a conversation recently while we were discussing the relationship shift that comes once our kids become adults and leave home for college and otherwise. I’ve been thinking about it ever since.
Small Project Week has continued. I fixed the closer on our back screen door. I trimmed our hydrangea trees in front. My wife and I strategized on a couple of the other items on our list. Basically, of the 26 things on our list we knocked out about half of them. Yay us!