This week’s wall picks. Added that Slick Shoes and Lagwagon album to the collection last week. Lagwagon binge hasn’t subsided.
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May’s grid addition is a whole lot of running. Hannah convinced me to sign up for a 5K as part of this whole be healthier/improve cardio kick I have been on. Only goal was to finish and to not embarrass myself. I feel pretty good about the results; the sun got to me a little on the last mile.
May 2025
Most played this week. Funny how much longer (track number wise) some of those early punk albums are.
This was given to be my Justin of The Matches. I’m pretty sure no one else has anything like it.
26:23 is a new 5K PR. Fun run at the track this morning. Good grey skies for it. Strung Out in the headphones.
Yeah, it was a whole lotta Lagwagon this week. Started late last week and then just didn’t let up. Something about the sunny weather and my mood this week just had me continually going back to that well.
Probably from around 2006/7. While I was wrong about this band ever blowing up, I wasn’t wrong about the songwriters! Seeing what Nick and Ryan have gone on to do has been incredible to follow. “Siren on the 101” still shoulda been a smash though.
Blog: ‘Minimum Viable Curiousity’
Michael Lopp, writing at Rands:
I’ve made a career being a human terrified by becoming irrelevant long before AI showed up to drive my car. You bet I am poking every bit of AI that I can. Daily. I am trying to figure out what it can and can’t do, and this article aside, I am optimistic, just like I’ve been for the last three decades, that revolutionary innovations will knock your socks off in the next few years. It’s still early days for AI. Really.
However, I am deeply suspicious of AI, especially after watching decades of social networks monetize our attention while teaching us to ignore facts and truth, minimizing our desire to understand. Many humans don’t check their facts; they believe what they read in the feed. Most humans believe the manufactured reality is designed to get them to believe someone else’s agenda. The convenience of these services and tools has made us lazy and, worse, not curious.