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  • Crossword Puzzle

    My first try at a multilingual puzzle. I am not happy with it, but it was an interesting exercise. Most of the non-English answers are in Spanish, but I ended up mixing in other languages.

  • 2026 Dodgers, Angels, Lakers, LAFC, Galaxy, Sports Team Triggered Fast Food Deals

    Here are the active Dodgers food promotions you can redeem right now, based on recent game results and trigger conditions. 1. Jack in the Box – Free Jumbo Jack 2. McDonald’s – Free 6-Piece Chicken McNuggets 3. Panda Express – $7 Panda Plate 4. Habit Burger & Grill – Free Double Char 5. AMPM –…

  • Obsidian Notes

    I’m using Obsidian, a lot, to read and edit Markdown files, partly for all this LLM practice. This is a document of tips and troubleshooting. Symptoms: tried to open a vault in a folder that has restricted permissions. The vault starts to open, but you get an “EACCESS permission denied” error. You cannot remove it…

  • Reading the California Law Section Hierarchy

    —References: https://saclaw.org/resource_library/reading-citations/ https://www.library.ca.gov/law/online-research/leginfo/ https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov https://libguides.law.ucla.edu/californiastatutes/codes Author: John Kawakami, Public Domain—My comments are prefixed by #.A subsection’s position in the hierarchy of sections can be determined by the style of numbering used:# on laws retrieved from https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, the parts up to ARTICLE are generally in the header area of the pageCODE CATEGORY (i.e. GOV) TITLE 1.…

  • Cost to Send a Big Package

    I had this 7 pound rice cooker, but it was bulky. The packaging costs were stunning. External box – a Lowes heavy duty box that I had to cut down: ~$6 Internal box – U-Haul book box (12x12x12), but I also bought a Small box, because I wasn’t sure if the smaller box was big…

  • Garbanzo Bean Natto and Hummus

    Made chick peas into natto, and then made that into hummus. Natto Soak a bag of garbanzos/chick peas overnight. Boil the chick peas gently until fully cooked, around 90 minutes. Dump in a pack of natto, defrosted. Stir into the beans well, and then put it into an oven with only the pilot light on.…

  • SGV and the Citrus Fruit Disease Huanglongbing HLB

    These are resources from the Citrus Disease Prevention website. Map Since it was hard to tell where the quarantine boundaries were, I took a screenshot of Google maps, and then combined with with the map above. (I did this by scaling one image, and matching the coastlines.) As you can see, nearly the entire San…

  • Recovering Data from an Netgear SC101 NAS

    I haven’t been able to do it. The short version is, I had a good conversation with Thaura (aka Qwen) and it said the NAS uses a proprietary format, and requires software installed to use it. https://thaura.ai/?share=2aa94050-af42-4a00-95cc-8b4776ef65c4 Why? Because it doesn’t have a file system. The CS101 presents the disk as a block device over…

  • Archive Creation Scripts

    I’m playing with some ideas, rearranging them, and trying to create a structure that can be broken up into parts, shared over Bittorrent, and reconstructed without too much pain.

  • Overview of Bloomberg QuickTake

    I bought this from the library several years ago, and found it during cleaning/disposing, and decided to study its design and writing. After all, we could benefit from professional guidance – but since we cannot afford it, we can reverse-engineer/reverse-design a billionaire’s publication. Since I’m not of the “Bloomberg class”, and not interested in capital,…