Author Archives: thegoingrogue

ML/AI is being trained the most on people chatting confidently on topics in which they possess little understanding. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and value is subjective.

Pots, compartments, conduit, toggles, boards, plates, encoders, bits, bobs, knobs on the way and more than a few momentary normally open tactile input thingamajigs. Foundations in place, if we lack it will be only for resolve. The to-do list is immense, and admittedly daunting. But by cell, by block, and by energetic expulsion, our reachContinue reading “Ok.”

Relinquish temporary trappings of ease. Disrespect earns neglect. Where on the wheel does one tread meet the road? Elsewhere we fly. All only that you allow.

Many years ago now, I pilfered a few cover sheets from my job with Top Secret/SI clearance for some extra realism in my GM sessions of the RPG of the same name. I recall the shock I experienced seeing actual classified code words come up in movies, or on a scrabble board. Everyone knows theContinue reading “Documents”

I’m thinking a lot … and reading. That’s mostly what I do. It’s pretty much all I do, beyond the basic, being a human, requirements. I am a madman, with the intention of making my spacecraft into a real friend.

Today begins the upgrades for Luther, the LanderVan Drivable Residence Operating System.

This craft has a data port. All kinds of info about how it’s running and what it’s doing.

Sometimes, you can’t have it all. And even when you think you’ve got stuff figured out, sometimes there’s a curveball. And I sure have been in a fuss lately over … that. So, the reality is that I get to put some stuff aside for a while, while I regroup and recover. Some capability willContinue reading “Resolution”

Cubes of necessity continue to wage war on volumetric freedom. Comfort, happiness, capabilities all in a battle for supremacy and balance. Is there room in this small common conveyance for it all? Suuurre there is … but definitely not space to make use of it in any real sense. And there’s the real question pokingContinue reading “Delusion”

I continue to wrestle with the inevitable. I have been a computer nerd my entire life; well, at least since my father brought home our first PET. In parallel, my “desk” is an ever-amorphous amalgamation of simulator cockpit vs useful workspace. The reality of 3-dimensional space here dictates that my current setup “will not fit”Continue reading “Computation”