Jason Kratz

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:16:25 -0500

Watched: The Twilight Zone S1E2, One for the Angels 🍿

Stars Ed Wynn as a pitchman visited by Mr. Death. Mr. Death is portrayed by Murray Hamilton, well-known TV actor of the day, but probably known by most reading this as the Mayor of Amity in Jaws.

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:03:20 -0500

Watched: The Twilight Zone S1E1, Where Is Everybody? 🍿

This episode stars Earl Holliman as an Air Force officer who cracks during an isolation test, thinking he’s the only one left in a town.

Also features James Gregory who some may remember as Inspector Luger on Barney Miller in the 1970s.

I will always remember Earl Holliman because of MST3K’s tribute during the episode featuring Attack of the The Eye Creatures. “EARL HOLLIMAN!!!!”

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:03:09 -0500

I’ve been watching old TV shows quite a bit and starting a “new” one, The Twilight Zone. I know I’ve seen a lot of the show but starting at season 1, episode 1.

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:40:38 -0500

One of my favorite pictures of my daughter. This day in 2004 just after her first birthday.

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:57:59 -0500

OK @manton my response to you:

🤣

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:52:00 -0500

This is pretty much all argument on the Internet:

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:29:12 -0500

Hey @manton - stop stripping out my alpha channel with your highfalutin image processing.

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:27:42 -0500

Saw this:

Nerds really don’t understand the real world, DHH does, and that’s why they get upset. It’s about connections, people connections. That’s why it was worth $18 million.

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:18:10 -0500

i guess it’s all how you spin. McDonald’s says their AI-based drive-thru ordering system is 90%+ accurate. Or, in less optimistic terms, has a potential 10% failure rate. Doesn’t sound too good to my ears. 1 in 10 orders could possibly be screwed up? I’m sure that would go over well with employees.

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:12:11 -0500

Took these photos 23 years ago today when I was getting ready to sell this Time Pilot arcade game. From about 2000 to 2003 I had a hobby of restoring old video games. I ran out of time, money, and space once my daughter was born (hence the date of the photo, she was a month old and I was getting out of the hobby). I got this Time Pilot from this amusements vendor out of his warehouse for about $15 because it didn’t work (actually got a medium-sized moving truck full of stuff for about $15 each) Turned out that only one chip on the motherboard was bad. Quick trip to Radio Shack (remember those?) and voila, the game was working.

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:59:42 -0500

Saw this on X. Very accurate.

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:38:55 -0500

😴 Tired: Everyone in tech talking about LLMs. 🤪 Wired: Everyone in tech talking about “Navier-Stokes” like they have any clue what it is.

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:56:34 -0500

Good article from Zeynep Tufekci in the NYT on OpenAI and the Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics math problem.

Couple of things about this:

The proof still needs to be verified.
This bit from Sebastien Bubeck from OpenAI stands out:

Regarding the level of human involvement on our end: although a group of people was involved in our efforts, we collectively had no research-level expertise in fluid dynamics and the Navier-Stokes problem, and therefore were unable to meaningfully contribute to the mathematical content.

I’m not sure this is the flex he seems to think it is.

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:08:41 -0500

Some photos I like from this day in years past.

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:50:06 -0500

jabel:

My unkind thoughts do not make me an unkind person. My unkind thoughts come, perhaps, from some injured part of myself. That part thinks the thoughts are justified, because don’t we all do that? What makes me a compassionate person is not the absence of unkind thoughts. Right action despite unkind thoughts is what makes me a compassionate person.

Hear, hear.

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:07:08 -0500

Nice way to start Fall. Cheers! 🍻