Spring has sprung, and with it a new garden 🌱 — the Vulnerability Garden 🪴! That’s been a big focus of mine the last week or so (and is still under development for my v1.0 release). I was in San Francisco earlier this month ✈️. Nothing else particularly noteworthy to highlight for March…
Site News
- Added a
theme-color meta tag, which makes the color scheme more consistent on mobile device header bars and gives that pop of color when pulling down the page on certain browsers (e.g. Safari).
- Signed up to host IndieWeb Carnival for April 2027. Stay tuned for that (need to come up with a prompt 🤔).
- I’ve welcomed Vulnerability.Garden 🪴 to the shellsharks family!
- I now have a human.json file published.
TV
- Knight of the Seven Nine Kingdoms: Season one was great! Only complaint is that it was too short 😢
- Task: Kinda stopped watching this one…
- Scrubs: It’s damn near pulling off the impossible—recapturing the humor and vibes of the original Scrubs seasons. Genuinely enjoying it.
- NBA: The Lakers are on a roll. Still can’t believe the Mavs gave up Luka 😂
- Paradise: Season two has still got it!
- One Battle After Another: This movie was ok. I probably would never watch it again. It wasn’t confusing… but I did just have this vague sense of like.. what is going on, hanging over me throughout the entire flick.
- Frankenstein (2025): There were parts of this movie I really enjoyed, other parts didn’t quite land. It does make me wonder about how exactly, from a physiological perspective, Frankenstein is so strong and impossible to kill.
Life
- 👨🌾 Spring! Soon (April) I’ll be executing on my (garden) plan.
- ❤️🔥 Finally got my feelings about burnout off my chest & heart.
- 🎁 My birthday came and went. It was fun! I went out antiquing (in a way) with my son (we bought a gigantic bird house), and then got hibachi (per usual) that night. Hibachi is the best. 🤤
- ☀️ Porch weather is back! Porch weather is the best! Though this will be the first spring (a.k.a. pollen blasting season) my porch will be subjected to, so I need to figure out what I’m going to do in that regard…
- 🌉 Was out in San Francisco for work early in the month, so of course I went to Mamas (twice)!
Thoughtstream
Just a stream of random thoughts…
Paperclip
I came across Paperclip on my feeds at some point and just… what? I’d love to see a writeup of someone earnestly using this and see what happened. AI has gotten out of control.
Afraid of AI
Rick’s piece titled “Am I Afraid of AI?” is a near-perfect encapsulation of my own feelings. Go read it and save me the hassle of writing up the same thing.
Bluesky CEO transition
Jay is out as CEO of Bluesky and Toni has stepped in. Woo. I’m kinda over talking about, criticizing, poking holes, or otherwise debating Bluesky-related things. Bsky is gon’ bsky y’know? I have my doubts about the networks long-term viability (and other things) but whatever. If people like being there then that’s great! If it lasts for years and years and finds meaningful success along the way then that’s awesome. If it crashes and burns and people have to “flee” elsewhere then we will deal with that then too. I’m focusing on more positive writing pursuits these days. 📖 *closes book* 📘 😁