A Souvenir From Vegas (Weeknotes

Here’s what happened during the week of December 9–15, 2024.
I jumped on the FediTree bandwagon.
I jumped on the FediTree bandwagon.

🤧 After spending nearly a week in Las Vegas, I was glad to get back to my normal routine this week. Unfortunately, I spent most of it fighting a cold—a souvenir from my trip to Las Vegas.

🧠 I delivered a short presentation on generative AI to my colleagues. I was worried that my audience would be bored out of their skulls but I received a lot of positive feedback so that was nice.

📜 I reorganized and updated my “Projets” page and renamed it “Artifacts”. It’s a list of stuff I’ve made over the years and that might be interesting to two or three people out there.

Movies

🛥️ I’m not sure I would have sought this out, but when I came across Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary my curiosity got the better of me. It turned out to be really interesting and of course full of great music.

💎 Logan's Run is not what we’d call a “good” movie, at least not by any modern standard. It remains one of my favorites so it was a lot of fun watching with my older daughter and laughing about all the gaping plot holes.

🛄 When I saw the teasers for Carry-On on social media I was immediately intrigued. I gave it one star for decent acting I guess. Other than that it’s 👏 just 👏 plain 👏 bad.

Television

🎅🏻 No one else in the family was willing to sit through 12 episodes of The Santa Clauses so I’ve been watching them on my own. So it’s not as good as the first two movies, but it’s solid.

Reading

”AI Is the Black Mirror” by Philip Ball (Nautilus)

“Dave Eggers just opened a library of books written entirely by children” by Emily Dreyfuss (The San Francisco Standard)

It was a busy week that included some travel for my wife. We spent the weekend together and celebrated with a margarita “flight.”
It was a busy week that included some travel for my wife. We spent the weekend together and celebrated with a margarita “flight.”

Don’t be naughty, Santa’s AI is watching.