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If Only AI suggested "Saybrook Sage" "A soothing aloe hue cooled with a splash of gray." Was rejected as "too dark". Manually eyeballing color swatches etc ended up with candidate short list of 4. AI allowed me to place some candidate furniture in a picture of of one the bedrooms / potential office, and with the right prompting and sample "digital dollops" ... WIth the original walls it looks like The Candidate Colors chosen were Budding Green CSP-790 https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/csp-790/budding-green Calming Aloe 533 https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/533/calming-aloe Stolen Moments 477 https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/477/stolen-moments Sweet Caroline 478 https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/478/sweet-caroline

Had Joanne compare similar different greens under various lighting conditions in various locations. Apparently getting Gemini / nano banana to replace wall colors in a picture isn't good enough 🤷‍♂️ Also, how many greens are there. Many many many apparently.

Happy Birthday, Knucks!

Happy Birthday!

Deconstructed Sushi? Red, White and Blue Apple Pie. 'Murica.

Well, you could sit in non moving traffic on 101 for about an hour and a half while 5 lanes filter into 1 flooded lane as motorists warely make their way through it. Highway 101, gas station in Larkspur, Corte Madera area flooded following storm - ABC7 San Francisco https://share.google/aOfzvsGh2LXsSjdjg No shit, King Tide Sherlock https://local.nixle.com/alert/12104315/?sub_id=0

https://bbc.com/news/videos/cx2052jqqzqo

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-explosions-venezuela-maduro-latest-news-updates-live

Lox Scramble Ratatouille @ https://www.oceanviewonfourth.com/

Happy Boxing Day Birthday!

It's those Blue LED eyes, right?

Happy AI Birthday, Ric.

Artisan hand crafted whipped cream And Tiramisu

This And This

Happy Birthday Ken!

We Have The Internets! https://www.speedtest.net/result/18637976162.png

As a friend once said, "With a voice like honey, poured over gravel". Or the M25's unofficial theme song RIP, Chris.

There may have been rain and wind in Marin, but at least there was power, so Quite the performance

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A certain 8TB drive was full, so I got a new 12TB drive, mounted it in a trusty external hard drive dock, connected by esata Ran This robocopy H:\ L:\ /E /COPYALL /DCOPY:T /R:0 /W:0 /MT:12 /XJ /LOG:C:\robocopy_H_to_L_full.log And walked away (without an explosion in the background) To get this Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras Dirs : 1966 1966 2 0 0 0 Files : 7172 7169 0 0 3 0 Bytes : 7.270 t 7.266 t 0 0 4.370 g 0 Times : 309:01:27 21:57:50 0:00:00 1:49:56 Speed : 101043866 Bytes/sec. Speed : 5781.776 MegaBytes/min. Ended : Wednesday, December 17, 2025 6:02:03 PM Some 22 Hours later. Swapped the drives, and now I have to play with, Matey.🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ EDIT: Of course, if the AI Bubble hadn't made cheap storage and ECC DDR5 unobtanium, I'd be expanding a ZFS storage pool on a NAS by just adding a drive, but here we are.