Hobbies Old and New

Anyone much younger than forty simply cannot have a visceral understanding of what it feels like to live through a decade’s worth of time.

Not a specific decade, mind you. Just the length, like knowing how it feels to sit through an hour or do something for a week. But a decade.


But deep down, don’t we all want to talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures?

This is obviously rhetorical. Because of course we do.


Went rollerblading for the first time in 25 years — was a bit wobbly, but still love that back and forth gliding rhythm.


In the last few weeks, three models that I use daily have updated… and three of three are worse.

Claude Opus 4.6, GPT 1.5 (for images), and Suno 5 are seemingly all way better for my purposes than their replacements. This is a new trend, and I do not like it.


I’ve now done doo-wop fantasy albums about being a demon hunter, warlock, druid, mage, paladin, necromancer, rogue, ranger, and priest. That’s nine albums, coming to almost seven hours of really smooth, catchy music. That’s where I originally planned to stop…

But now I’m thinking of also doing Doo-Wop Space Goat, Doo-Wop Werewolf, and Doo-Wop Panda. We’ll see. (I’d bet on one to three days before I start one of them.)

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