Elephant rock

Day 2 - Valley of Fire state park, the Red Wave hike!

First stop on Eastward migration, Lake Havasu. Auto-generated description: A travel trailer is parked near a scenic lakeside area with trees and mountains under a partly cloudy sky.

Eagles at the sphere

New PR on the Tuesday crossword: 9:01. Wasn’t really rushing so it was a bit of a surprise.

Can we all agree that dropping the F-bomb is unpresidential? How about committing war crimes? And can we start a petition to invoke the 25th if the toadies in the cabinet don’t want to? Saw Hadestown last night… really makes you think!

What do you use to post to micro.blog while on the road? I’m going to be iPad only for a couple of weeks soon and would like to get set up. Mostly for medium length writing with photos.

I think I’ve just had my first truly meaningful conversation with an LLM. Not sure if I should be grateful or worried, but I feel good about it anyway. It started with a great post by Om Malik, to pick one word to describe yourself.

Octavia Butler Nails it: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to askto be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Why oh why are we keeping Rodriguez on the bench? @mnufc? Inquiring minds want to know.