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To go along with my delve back into live sports, if I were going to start watching college football, who should I watch?

When I build my side projects, I will generally handle them the same way I would at work in my professional career. It might seem like overkill, but I find that it's been working for me pretty well.

So I'm currently working on redesigning my personal site. So far, I think the hardest part is integrating all the little things I've built into my site over the course of the 13 years I've been building and writing on it.

Unless you've been living under a rock, it seems like just about every application you download or use no matter what operating system or device you're using is wedging AI into them. Why can't it just stop?

Growing up, I remember games being handed out as shareware and/or demos. You'd get a game, be able to play a few levels, see if it's for you, and if it is, buy the full version. A popular example of this was the eternal classic, Doom. Demos and trials are still around today, but I don't see them quite as much. Now some game developers might have even more of a reason not to even consider demos, or to even show off the game.

I keep hearing people talking about John Steinbeck's East of Eden. I keep hearing lots of praise about it, and I keep thinking about reading it earlier this year and having to at times force myself to finish it.

There's been a lot of news surrounding the company Flock and its cameras. The company is mostly known for its automated license plate reading cameras.

July was a mostly quiet month that started with a massive heat wave that happened to occur as my central AC crapped the bed.

As I have mentioned many times prior, I do not use generative AI for anything in my personal life. I don't use it to help write posts or code for this site or any of my little side projects. I have many reasons for staying away from AI and LLMs. Some of them I might be able to get over for some tasks, but the one that I don't know if I'll ever be able to get over is its effect on the environment.

Since around mid-March, I've started a new morning routine for myself. I've been journaling every morning in an attempt to calm my mind before the start of the day. I get up, walk Tess, pour myself a cup of coffee and put my thoughts to paper.

If you haven't noticed, I'm a bit of a sports fan. My two biggest sports are baseball and hockey. I grew up playing baseball, and have been playing ice hockey for the last 13 years. They're sports I love and follow. The one thing I haven't been all that great with is watching them.