Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Well, it’s definitely allergy season and mine are the worst they’ve ever been. This is the first time post nasal drip has caused such a sore throat that it’s super swollen. Which in turn causes my sleep apnea to be bad. As a result, I’m not sleeping all that well.
No worries! That’s what caffeine is for, right? 😁
I’m well into my second cup of coffee. In fact, it’s now gone. Time for more. ☕️
I hope you enjoy the links.
Sandofsky has now filed a lawsuit in the California Superior Court of Santa Cruz against de With, accusing him of improperly using more than $150,000 in Lux company funds to pay for personal expenses since 2022, as well as providing confidential material and source code from Lux to Apple.
I can’t find the link to the documents Mr. Sandofsky filed but I read through it earlier in the week. Wowzer. This is going to get extremely ugly and I hope it’s not the death of his company.
Side note. It’s so difficult for me to wrap my brain around an app company being so successful it can support two folks. What a dream.
But no matter — that lifelong devotion has landed Colbert a credit that most fans could only ever dream of. Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema confirmed that Colbert will co-write “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past” alongside screenwriter Philippa Boyens and Colbert’s son Peter McGee, with Jackson producing.
I had no idea Mr. Colbert was such a Lord of the Rings geek! I hope the man has the time of his life working on the new film given the years he’s had what with Marmalade Messiah and company getting his show cancelled.
The skeleton of famed French musketeer Charles de Batz de Castelmore d’Artagnan may have been found in front of a church altar in the Dutch city of Maastricht, church officials and an archaeologist said on Wednesday.
My wife and I both had similar thoughts on this. What are they gonna do with the poor person after they’ve gone through their identification process?
It would be nice for them to put the remains back where they found them and mark the location. I have no idea if Dutch law would allow that?
Today we’re laying off over 1000 Epic employees. I’m sorry we’re here again. The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we’re spending significantly more than we’re making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded. This layoff, together with over $500 million of identified cost savings in contracting, marketing, and closing some open roles puts us in a more stable place.
More layoffs. Makes me sad for the poor folks on the receiving end of those pink slips. The market is so bad. 🥺
Regardless of what you do, on this website, it’s just me, here and now. Me and my dumb takes and opinions, my rambles about nothing and my thoughts on things everything has mentioned before, but it doesn’t really matter does it? Because I am the one writing. Helplessly human, helplessly unpolished, imperfect and wrong, but documenting it all because it’s just fun for me.
This is the whole idea behind having a blog. It’s all yours and you can do whatever the heck you want with it. Want to write about tech? Fine, do that. Want to write about sports, go right ahead. You could be like me and write about whatever floats your boat on a particular day. It’s raw and unfiltered. It’s your voice.
I started this blog in February 2001 in hopes it would make me a better writer. I may have failed in that endeavor but I still enjoy doing it. 😃
Abandon the em-dash in your human writing? The irony—and it’s a major irony—is that real writers use em-dash frequently, and for reasons. As a written signifier of verbal speech pauses, it means something different than what commas and semicolons mean. It connects while separating.
I think I already shared this little story, but my brother ran some of his own writing through an AI writing detector thingie and it reported his writing had a high probability of being written by an LLM. That’s crazy.
Think about that. What if you submit a paper to an academic periodical and they reject it because they claim it was written by an LLM? I’ll bet it’s already happened but I’m too lazy to search for an example.
It’s terrible to think we may have to dumb down our writing to please some stupid service.
