Endgame Viable

NFL Week 9 Yeah okay the season’s definitely over now for the Commanders. The Giants will win the division unless they have an epic collapse, in which case the Cowboys will. The Commanders were underdogs to the Rams, but it was definitely a winnable game. I fell asleep in the first half of the game and when I woke up in the second quarter, the Commanders were winning and had just recovered a...

NFL Week 8 It was a great week for the Commanders. For once the stars aligned, and they actually took advantage of it. First, the Cowboys collapsed and lost in overtime to the Arizona Cardinals, leaving them at 3-5. Then, after an absolutely awful start falling behind 10-0 to the Eagles on Sunday night, the Commanders remembered how to play football and rattled off 27 unanswered points over the re...

College Football I don’t normally watch college football because it always looks like a huge scramble of incompetance to me. Kids just running around with a busted play every down, that kind of thing. (It’s not actually that bad, but that’s my bias.) And usually, one team murders the other team, so the game’s usually over by the end of the first quarter. But I watched two c...

I broke down and pre-ordered World of Warcraft: Forever, and took a quick look at the beta. I made a Dwarf Hunter and played a couple hours in that same old starting zone that I remember from 2006, which was the first time I played World of Warcraft. I was mainly looking to find out what the game was supposed to be, because it wasn’t at all clear from the promotional material. It sounded lik...

Unlike week 5, where nobody in the NFC East won, in week 6, everybody in the NFC East lost. I enjoyed watching the Philadelphia Eagles lose their fourth straight to the Carolina Panthers in the early game on Sunday. But it sucks about the Jalen Hurts blood clot. I had a blood clot scare myself. It’s no joke. At the same time on another channel, the New Orleans Saints defeated the New York Gi...

Another post I started last week and I’m trying to kick out of my drafts before it gets too old. What if Carrie but Stranger Things and cyberbullying PSA and 8 hours instead of 2? That was my impression of Amazon’s new 8-episode series Carrie. Stephen King is near and dear to my heart, so I usually consume whatever comes along out of his works. Carrie was Stephen King’s first hit...

We’re back in our old habits of writing posts and then failing to publish them. This is from last week. Mortal Shell 2 I tried out Mortal Shell 2, a Souls-like that had some pretty good Steam reviews. While it looked nice, I didn’t like the first game very much. The “shell” gimmick just didn’t work for me. This new game is nothing like the first game, though. The shel...

A tie. It ended in a tie. Somehow that’s worse than losing the game. The stars were perfectly aligned going into the Washington Commanders week 5 game Sunday. First, the Cowboys were destroyed last Thursday night to start the week. Delightful. I didn’t watch it live but I really enjoyed the recap. Then, the Eagles lost in the final seconds on Sunday morning in London. It was an ugly ga...

George R. R. Martin used to blog about football every week, so that’s my excuse. It’s still early enough in the season that we can entertain dreams of the Commanders being competitive. But NFL Week 4 kind of sucked. The Washington Commanders, who I now call the Washington Catastrophes, already lost their starting quarterback Jayden Daniels. In London, they lost their backup quarterback...

Even “super intelligence” can’t think of an appropriate title for this mixed bag of disparate topics. (I ended up writing the title myself.) A major problem with blogging like this is that people will skip it immediately if it looks like a “newsletter” style of post. At least that’s what my statistics tell me. Anyway I’m still here, trying to adjust to the...

I finished the Endwalker Main Scenario Quest, at least up to 6.0. I don’t know what comes next, but I understand there’s somewhat of a story “reset” after this point. I’ve been wanting to change my main character for a while, but I’ve never found a good time to do it. It always felt weird to experience the Main Scenario Quest with a different character, since it...

I don’t have much to talk about. Just not in the mood for writing. Daylight is rapidly disappearing, which always puts me in a foul mood. I’m in the midst of receiving radiation treatments on a breakout cancer spot in my right pelvic bone. It’s going well. Though I have no way of knowing one way or another, to be honest, since again, it’s all happening at a cellular level a...

I took an extra day off and had a 4-day weekend over the Labor Day holiday, during which I was under the weather most of the time thanks to chemo side effects. This round of chemo hit a little harder than last time, so I went into hibernation from which I’m only just now emerging. Most of the time I felt like I was in a stupor and just wanted to sleep all day. This morning, comparatively, I...

Here’s something I thought was important to tell everyone. Earlier today I drove out for chemo infusion #21 (has it been three weeks already?), and as always I pulled up the Google Maps app to tell me how to get there, even though I know how to get there by now. Quite quickly I noticed a change in Google Maps. Over the years I have come to think of the Google Maps navigation voice as the &ld...

It’s the last day of Blaugust 2026. I don’t really want to write a “how my Blaugust went” post, because everybody’s writing them, but I don’t have any other ideas for the last day. I did successfully post 31 posts in 31 days, so I can still do that, for whatever that’s worth. Once I abandoned the idea of actually writing a new post every morning, it was pr...

We’re scraping the bottom of the barrel here in the last couple of days. I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t like writing blog posts on weekends. So here’s a list of changes I’ve made to the blog before or during Blaugust this year. Which I wrote down over a week ago. Updated to the latest version of Hugo, including addressing all the deprecation warnings. Ref...

Push The Roll I started listening to the Push the Roll Podcast with Ross Bryant. If you have any knowledge of the TTRPG Actual Play space, you know who Ross Bryant is, but if not, he’s an improviser who appears on Dropout.tv now and then. He’s unofficially known as The Greatest Role-Player In The World. Or something like that. Anyway he started a kind of horror anthology podcast where...

Whoops I have nothing prepared today either. Let’s talk about AI writing. People love talking about AI writing, don’t they? Everyone knows that AI is quite bad at creative writing, however there’s one area where I think AI writing is perfectly acceptable, and that’s technical writing. Technical writing doesn’t have to be creative. It’s just there to communicate...

Morning! I’m back with another live-written post on the morning of publishing day. I stopped doing this because it’s difficult and largely unfulfilling, but today I don’t have anything else readily available to post. To be honest, in my mind, I’ve fully left Blaugust behind and moved on to other things. These are just the vestigial death throes of habit, and not wanting to...

I saw Roger mention Void’s post Finding A New Internet Home on the Blaugust Discord and again in his recent post . It’s a post I could have written. In my opinion, social media as a general concept for socializing is long since “over.” It’s now dominated by an overarching stain of the sales industry, as so many things in life are these days. As a place to socialize an...

Bhagpuss reminded me that Blaugust has been fairly anti-AI in the past, and here I am running around crowing about all my fancy schmancy new AI tools to help me blog more efficiently to get ready for Blaugust. Past Controversy I don’t think I was involved in Blaugust last year at all, either reading or writing, as it was about two months after my cancer diagnosis and brain surgery and I was...

Aw screw it, I’ll make this post tonight too, since I’m on a roll right now. This is how I’ll be able to write a post a day for Blaugust. For reference, here’s the post referenced in these screenshots. I start a blog post by typing this: make post The new post opens within the Antigravity IDE editor and I start typing Markdown until I’ve had enough. That and only that...

One more test post. I’ve been working on updating my blog theme to give it a little more modern kick. Modern, at least, in the manner of whatever Gemini gets from its “modern-web-style” plugin. You guessed it: I’m just prompting Gemini to do it for me, through the medium of the Antigravity IDE. Who has the time or energy to keep up with all the crazy css rules out there the...

I can now reveal that the extremely annoying auto-writing “feature” of Antigravity IDE can be turned off when working with a plain Markdown (or any text, presumably). Go to the lower right corner of the IDE, click on Antigravity - Settings, and turn off “Suggestions in Editor.” This knowledge will allow me to continue writing blog posts within Antigravity IDE, as opposed to...

I just went out to Burger King and got a Whopper combo. This is the biggest meal I’ve eaten since probably last Thursday. Over the weekend, for example, a big meal for me was a Jello cup or a piece of cheese. One thing I’m really hating about Antigravity IDE is that whenever I type in Markdown–that is, whenever I type a blog post–it thinks I want suggestions for how to comp...