Song Fight! Live-ish 2023 fluffy rambles
This year’s Song Fight! Live will be premiering August 26 at 6 PM PDT/9 PM EDT. Please join me and my music friends with the mirth and merriment as we all perform songs while pretending it’s a concert! (And join in the live chat.)
Studio reorg, day 2 fluffy rambles
I took some time off after my first big progress day to regroup, since I was having a bit of soreness and a pain flareup, and also didn’t really know what steps to take next. I did do a little bit in the interim but it wasn’t worth documenting.
Anyway I finally figured out which steps to take next, and I got a lot done today!
Studio reorg, day 1 fluffy rambles
The air was clear enough™ today (AQI in the upper 80s, which is still no fun for me to be outside but that’s good enough for being in the basement) and I got goaded along by some folks on the Song Fight! discord to “just do it,” so I decided to start the process of reorganizing stuff.
hashtag NoAI fluffy rambles
In yet another conversation about AI art on Discord, someone mentioned that most sites have the #NoAI hashtag to indicate that something should be off-limits to an AI art bot.
So, I installed a stable diffusion GUI and decided to see what the various AI models would generate for a prompt of just “NoAI.”
Basement studio reorganization fluffy rambles
I have a lot of project stuff that goes on in my basement. Unfortunately, my basement is extremely cluttered and disorganized, and I kind of hate being down there, which makes it so that I have a hard time actually doing anything creative down there either.
When I moved into my house two and a half years ago, I didn’t really have a plan for how to lay stuff out, and I just put stuff where it made sense as I unpacked it. Which means that there’s no real flow to things, and stuff tends to accumulate in piles, and things are just really badly disorganized.
❤️ Publishers on social media are between a rock and a hard place Notes
Like: Publishers on social media are between a rock and a hard place
Pretty good overview of the current social media landscape, especially with how it relates to journalism.
❝ Don’t personally guarantee your startup Notes
Quoted: Don’t personally guarantee your startup
Based on their literature, Paintbrush provides a $50,000 loan with a very low-friction application and a fast decision. But the total repayment amount can be as much as $75,000, tied to a personal founder guarantee. That means that if your startup doesn’t work, you as a founder are required to pay that amount back at an amount pegged at 15% of your pre-tax income. For example, if your total income was $150,000, you would pay back $22,500 a year. That amounts to around 22% of what your post-tax takehome pay would be before payments like health insurance and rent.
So basically this is all of the downsides of traditional VC with none of the upsides. Yeesh.
In traditional VC, it’s the investors who are taking the risk of funding the company. This scheme is doing none of that and is instead what amounts to a payday loan.
Lab results fluffy rambles
- Cholesterol: Within normal range (thanks, Repatha)
- Triglycerides: Still a little high, but not nearly as bad as they used to be (I’m guessing that them being a bit high means the doctor is still going to lecture me)
- Blood glucose: 102mg/dL, which is technically a little high because of the law of round numbers, but c'mon
- A1C: 6.0, which is right in the middle of the “pre-diabetic” range, which means I’m going to get a lecture about that too
- MCH: 25.6pg, indicating I might be slightly anemic
Anyway it’s pretty clear that my home glucosimeter needs to be recalibrated or replaced.
Update: Doctor’s office left a voicemail which was surprisingly lecture-free. They just told me the same thing I wrote above and said there wasn’t really any change to make for now.
The joys of being alive fluffy rambles
So, yesterday I had my 6-month followup with the cardiologist regarding the heart-related stuff and got the usual litany of obnoxious hand-wringing around my labs (evne though they were now very out-of-date) and yet another lecture about lipids and triglycerides, which, yes, this is why I am seeing you. Meh.
Anyway, the upshot of this is that he did order new labs for me (which I have no issue with, of course, just with how he talked about ordering them), and this morning I figured I’d go get them done. And before doing them I figured I’d use my OTC blood glucose meter to get an idea of what to expect with the blood sugar results.
It came back with 296 mg/dL.
That is… high.