⛰ Week Notes 062
🗓️ // Mar 1, 2026 - Mar 7, 2026
This has been my second week of being mildly sick with the cold that traveled through the whole family recently. Unfortunately it's also moved into the post nasal drip mild cough stage and gets worse overnight while I'm sleeping. I'm usually pretty good once I've thoroughly blown my nose, showered, re-hydrated with plenty of water, and have my coffee in hand, but that first thirty minutes can be pretty brutal.
⚽️ Spurs relegation danger continues to ramp up as they lost to Crystal Palace 1-3 and their best chance at 3 points for the immediate future. I like Igor Tudor but I think hiring him was a mistake based on the 3-4-3 system he prefers not matching our available players. I place the vast majority of the blame on Johan Lange.
🤖 Claude really moved into the forefront of the public psyche recently thanks to falling out with Pete Hegseth and company, an ad campaign I've been seeing everywhere, and a lot of people casting them as the AI of the resistance. I have mixed feelings about this characterization, but I do find Claude quite useful when working on coding projects.
🇮🇷 Operation Epstein Fury continues unabated with no real clear long term plan and lots of ridiculous frat boy bluster. I'm sure the AI-powered war crimes we know of (162 innocent school girls) are just the tip of the iceberg with the incompetent administration that 90 million of our dimmest fellow Americans have saddled us with.
🚙 No news on the car shopping front. Mary is incredibly busy right now so we're just getting by with our two available cars and a lot of carpooling. Hoping to be able to make some progress next week.
🍏💻 Apple announced the $599 MacBook Neo this week and finally entered the inexpensive laptop fray. The base model is faster than the original M1 MacBook Air and my only slight disappointment is the 8GB of RAM. The reality is that this Mac will be great for students and a ton of regular users and they're going to sell a ton.
Playing
🧙♂ The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set came out this week, but I've been fully focused on completing my Daily Quests and a little bit of Ranked Constructed. My youngest daughter has gotten interested in playing again so we've been doing some casual games the last couple of nights.
⛏️ Played minimal Minecraft this week after a fair amount last weekend. Starting to get interested in redstone powered farms and mechanisms.
Watching
🍿My Hero Academia: You're Next 👍 Fun to see all the students and heroes in a feature-length film, but kind of a ridiculous premise to fit such a huge and momentous one-off side conflict into the week before the actual final battle of the series.
📺 Star Trek: Starfleet Academy S1E8: The Life of the Stars 👍👍 Lt. Tilly is back to sort out all of the cadets' post Miyazaki drama in dramatic fashion, and SAM gets an unexpected system restart with the help of her creators and the doctor.
📺 Starfleet Academy S1E9: 300th Night 👍👍 Excellent penultimate episode to the season with a cliffhanger to boot! Enjoyed SAM's personality evolution and internal conflict over her previous version's memories, and obviously this is the Caleb storyline we've been waiting to see play out all season.
📺 Paradise S4E1-4 👍👍 Great first half of the season with a lot of unexpected twists and turns. I particularly enjoy the fact that the show is such a flashback laden onion of reveals that dead characters are always guaranteed to get screen time in future episodes.
📺 Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God Really cool animated short featuring three tracks from the new Gorillaz album, The Mountain.
Projects
- 🤖 Decided to give Claude a try for building a static microblog system that I can host for free via GitHub pages. Impressed with what it came up with initially and how well the iterative process works to add features and fix bugs. One of the first things I had it help me with was setting up the GitHub repo and refactoring the javascript so that unit testing is part of the process.
Listening
- 🎶 Gorillaz - The Mountain 👍👍 I've been listening all week after discovering it via the animated short. Orange County was the earworm that I found myself humming to myself at random times after a few listen throughs, but I really appreciate the variety and cohesive vibe of the whole album- I'm not surprised at all that it's had a very positive critical reception. Turns out the project was strongly influenced by the deaths of both of Albam's and Hewlett's fathers during production, and now I feel like it's a serendipitous gift to revisit the emotion of my dad's passing almost exactly twenty-five years ago.