The First Rule of CrossFit

I enjoy soda water a lot. For few reasons: It’s usually served cold It’s fizzy and has a good mouthfeel It’s filling The carbonation keeps it “fresh” longer It alters the taste of water When I was a student in university and very frugal, I’d usually take for the day…

At the beginning of the pandemic and lockdown in March 2020, I was stuck at home with a two and five year old. It began immediately apparent that the only way to get any work done was to ply them with activities. …

Amazon announced last week that it was acquiring iRobot, maker of the popular Roomba series of robots. It makes a lot of sense. Amazon is moving further into the home automation space and it already owns a robotics company, albeit one for warehouse robots. With Roomba, Amazon can potentially get…

A few months ago, I noticed a new format on my YouTube page — shorts. Call me old fashioned, but I really dislike this format. With YouTube videos, I can gauge the length and progress of the video and generally turn off the autoplay feature. …

Re-Written By Machine and New Technology — I wrote recently about how generative AI is going to start making video. Truthfully, I was speculating on where the technology could go. I didn’t think that we’re actually starting to see it happen today. Well, CogVideo has started to make it happen. They’ve published a repo on GitHub and…

Yesterday, I fixed the foam padding on my headset. The original padding broke and the replacement padding I ordered didn’t fit. For weeks, I had hard bare plastic against my ears and it could become uncomfortable after a few hours. Finally, I was able to figure out if I used…

I just converted a file from .m4a to .mp3. To do so, I needed to install Audacity, then download another tool called FFMPEG, then run Audacity again, then export as an .mp3. All so that I could upload audio to be transcribed. Why? Why in 2022 are we still fussing…

Several years ago, I was enthralled by Adobe’s display of Project Voco. It opened the door to concerns about Deepfakes. It was difficult to see where this technology could be contained but Adobe was quiet about it after the initial hoopla. In late 2021, Adobe opened up invite-only access to…