The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Off to the gym nice n early, hardly anyone there! Not feeling the strength but got it in anyway. Front desk lady changing jobs. Ryan Reynolds has a donut at Tims… why? It was good, but still just a donut. It’s like beer companies sponsoring sports matches. Thinking, advertising for the new site… posters in the libraries?? Off to a talent show! Not sure I’d want to be back in junior high… nor work...

Bought shoes! Aren’t New Balance for old people? $25 for socks? No thanks! Can’t justify the cost, ever? $75 for shorts?? What if I just went to Decathlon? Winnipeg doesn’t have a Decathlon. Realllllyyy? But Uniqlo is about to open! The Airpods… it’s like that airplane taking off feeling… as if your ears are about to pop but don’t. Finished The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, thi...

A new donation! Yey! Thank you! I’ll sending through a signed title card and a little digital package! Bye bye Sora! Hardly knew ya!“The ChatGPT maker and Walt Disney Co. are also winding down their partnership, which had centered on Sora, OpenAI said Tuesday. Disney had previously agreed to license iconic characters including Mickey Mouse and Cinderella to OpenAI for use on Sora and to take a US$...

Failed at Gemini! Can’t analyze, transcribe, or tokenize! Hitting a wall of sorts. OF owner Leo Radvinsky dead at 43! Podcasters giving up! What about me? (Could I be one of the longest running podcasts? New tag line! One of Winnipeg’s LONGEST RUNNING PODCASTS! 1250 episodes so far!)https://www.wsj.com/business/media/the-veteran-podcasters-hanging-up-their-headphones-0b1070e1 Why are they giving u...

End of an era as Chuck Norris passes away! Did you read the comments? Potholes all over the place! Where do our tax dollars go? Do I even owe tax in Canada?! Gaining weight but is it all bad? Is it muscle gain or just fat? Thanks Reeses… and donuts… and cookies… and everything else. Bought the Airpods! Lost my nail clippers! Seventeen years! No haircut just yet! And Mom to the rescue! Joey’s Only...

Thirty days! The expiry date has arrived! Is it off?! Is it off??!! The hair that is. And the beard? No. Not yet. FOUR HOURS WASTED! Was it? Trying to move files from Wordpress to Google Drive… but where’s the AI? Gemini? Claude or OpenAI? how to make this work? Workout in! Leg day-ish, complete with a decent 25-minute run. Market route continues! When will it end?? From yesterday: GOLD getting CR...

Workout in sans supplements! But got some more at the store just in case. How much? Milk Thistle, zinc and magnesium were on sale. How do I even test for this stuff? Could these supplements just be placebos that enable me to THINK of doing something? And could that then lead me to DEVELOP the abilities, techniques and mindsets? Went to the Apple Store to get my AirPods aaaaand… didn’t get anything...

Demo website done! And it includes a game! Ha! Workout in! Feeling strong enough. How much am I paying per month? $100 vs other people’s $40 a month?!?! How? Why? Library closed! How do you work at home?? Got the gift cards! And I forgot to mention… Team Canada lost again… to the United States… in Paralympics hockey! Final score was 6-2, FFS! Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.payp...

Happy St. Patty’s Day! There are Irish pubs, but no real need to go. Lunch with one of the nieces was good enough Workout in but feeling sluggish! Off Maca, Ashwaganda, Collagen and just about everything. Why? Not working? Or… just need to find my points card?! How’s cleaning going? I’ve got some annual reports to go through. Does this bring you joy? In order to know, you must handle it yourself....

Gemini FAIL! Seemed soo simple and yet… nothing. Back to the drawing board. Maybe it can’t be automated? ChatGPT? Manually? Shopping with Air Miles? Is it worth it?? New pair of Air Pods? Why not? Workout in, feeling heavy, but hitting the chest and getting the run in on the treadmill. Have to! I gained weight! THREE POUNDS! TOO MANY DONUTS! And the state of the market drop, is it done yet? In 202...

One week till the cut off begins! Am I ready?? Big talk, little problems — does OpenClaw actually solve anything? You still gotta program it yourself! Workout in! Mostly legs and some chest. Does YouTube have eye tracing technology? Does the Apple alarm go off earlier? Got a credit card refund! So easy! And yet another reason to go to the office: cat puke! Donate to the show! PayPal link below! ht...

OpenClaw restricted in China? No shhhht. I honestly haven’t looked at this very much. Apparently there ARE multi-platform publishing sites in China… but they’re all in Chinese and all require WeChat login. Safe much? Workout in, not much of a circuit workout, but enough to go around a few times. Market correction underway, only down by 5% or so. How did you like the latest Substack article? That w...

Workout in! But in between visits! Back workout done today, will do my circuit workout tomorrow or Friday. Out early this morning to meet up with one of my Uncles and Aunts, they just got back from Puerto Vallarta. Off to a dance competition… 8am to 10pm?? Five days in a row?? During the WORK WEEK!?! How do you even?? Walking around Downtown Winnipeg, what’s it like? Oh Doughnuts kitchen closes at...

Making a list and checking it twice! What do you need to do before you leave? Daly Burger chili burger done and had! Another one checked off the list! Cleaning up the books, doing some accounting of what I’ve bought and used, cut expenses by half! And working on that book, what’s the crossover between book writing, podcasting and video making?! Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.pa...

Warming up in Winnipeg! Did I miss all of the winter activities? Skip an hour ahead! Did you lose an hour this weekend? I didn’t. Slept till 9.30! Neat new remotion tool using Claude! But still hitting limits! Thinking… May You Make Your Movie… could be AI animation?? And looks like I don’t need to go to Toronto, visa-free entry is enough!https://toronto.china-consulate.gov.cn/eng/zytzxx/202602/t2...

Slower day today, seems people are getting sick. Apparently the Chinese students don’t go back until next week. Still some students looking to take IELTS so they can avoid going to class! Markets getting hit, but some are not… or at least they are rebounding already. (Chinese stocks, Constellation Software, Intuit.) To the library to get some books, marketing and more decluttering. (Finished Pico...

Gold falling? But there’s a war on! Where’s the safe haven trade? Guess the Chinese are selling?? Workout in! Forgot to tell you, but I got a crossover skip! Progress on that book for the language vlog. Of course using ChatGPT to organize it. Is my office subscription over? And is podcaster John C Dvorak in the hospital?? (Should I talk about money and the stock market if I want donations??) Donat...

Knackered! Did my circuit work today and did a proper number of sets, but this time I differentiated the exercises rather than trying to do one set after another. Got another rough website done with a form submission. The goal is a landing page where people can submit their speaking or writing and then that gets processed with OpenAI, then sent out as an email. Not sure if I want a full blown mini...

Early show, how did it sound? Never made it to the office today, getting busy with some things I can only get done here in Canada. Markets getting CRUSHED! Hold the line, watch your stops, get ready for more. CHINESE! GOLD! BROAD MARKET STONKS KEEERRRUUSSSHHHEEDD! Blame Trump! Is this some sort of deal to help Canadian oil and energy? What about Chinese?! A quick note about the 1-year income rule...

Sick again?? Re-listening to last year’s podcasts around the time I changed jobs, when did I quit my job? (Just before Spring Festival 2025, but I didn’t talk about it until the Friday February 7, 2025. New week, new month! Reading The Art of Swedish Death Cleaning! How’s your penmanship? What stuff are you keeping? What’s useful? What’s worth it? How much? And Where? And a note about my lunch wit...

End of week, end of month, time flies! Spent the day eating! Workout in! Shoulders and back, I gotta say, I am running less, not only that, a lot of the older people I know who were active throughout their lives… all undergoing surgeries. Seems like you can’t escape it. Would you rather read an AI article (which is meant to be scanned, not read in depth), or someone who’s written huge paragraphs,...

Wow, did not know it was the first time in 46 years that Team USA won the Olympic gold in hockey. Aaaaand politics. Oh America. You just can’t let it go. (They got a call from Trump! How dare they!)https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7068426/2026/02/24/usa-mens-olympics-hockey-gold-donald-trump/ Meanwhile, in Britain, the even is just reported with little fanfare.https://www.bbc.com/sport/ice-hockey/...

New video editor on deck? What’s it worth? Descript troubles! Refunded, but cancelled for next year… can I build this myself? Claude Code/Cowork, OpenClaw, and what’s next? Is it even worth it to learn these things? And what about security concerns? Playing around with Claude Code… it’s doing stuff I wanted to automate anyway. File renaming, picture sorting, etc. Is it safe? Is this the future of...

In pain! Workouts working hard! Lucky I’m not involved with Ramadan. Legs are sore to day from yesterday’s MONSTER session. Today was CHEST! How is that collagen going? Notice any difference? Getting charged double, how to dispute? Is it even possible? Can I automate what Descript does? Compiling books, which ones stay, which ones go? And ALIENS ARE REAL! Trump presidency to release more informati...

Back to the grind! Start of the week and end of the month! Olympics are over! How did we do?-Men’s curling… we win! (Against Great Britain… didn’t even know they had a team!) -Women’s curling…. bronze! -Men’s hockey... we lost. :( Team USA wins gold in overtime. Canada finishes with 21 medals total, 9 bronze, 7 silver, and 5 gold. USA at number 2 with 33 total medals behind Norway with 40 medals....