christian crumlish doing stuff
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So, this happened
Another car tried to get to a left-hand turn lane through our car.
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We were all young once
I was surprised to see some younger-ish folks at the Dead show in Sunday. For me one of the highlights was having two functioning knees and being able to stand (and dance) all night. It was a lot of fun! Yes, at times somewhat labored,but many great moments especialy in set the second set. Set…
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Branding Piper Morgan
I’m always kind of happy when I find that the bots can’t do something for me and I will need to find a real talented human to do it for me instead. I spent some time yesterday trying to evolve Piper’s logo using MidJourney with many uncanny bad takes and even the bests of them…
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Days between
Back when Jerry Garcia was still alive, after I had moved to San Francisco and then later to Oakland, the abundance of Grateful Dead shows (not to mention Garcia Band and other related family events) made me complacent. I wouldn’t even make plans before an upcoming run. More often than not someone would show up…
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There ain’t no easy way out
A little while ago I spoke with Pam Mandel on her podcast Canned! about being illegally fired from my federal job by a bunch of nihilistic miscreants, and the episode was released today:
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From night owl to morning pages
For the first half of my life I could sleep till noon if you let me and happily stay up till 3am reading or geeking out on something. In college I once accidentally slept through dinner. All that changed in the last decade or so. Some combination of age and perhaps too much time working…
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This is my beautiful house
If you had told 15 year-old me that someday I would be so annoyed by the smudges on the floor that I would be walking around with a spray bottle and a special kind of mop at 7 AM, trying to get rid of them, I would’ve looked at you as if you were a…
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Trespassers won’t
So I was having some coffee the other morning when I glanced at the deck and saw a face staring back at me, about ankle high, headed toward the corner of the house. It was a little reddish pointy face and my mind had real trouble keying it. Is that a fat little deer? I…
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Breakthrough
This probably won’t make much sense right now, and even the people who are following my AI project won’t get to this part of the story for at least a month, but Piper summarized a document for me today after days (!) of debugging that themselves were the last step in building out a file…
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Depicting Piper Morgan
Early on in my LLM-bot experiment I decided I needed a logo for the project (a robot emoji just wasn’t going to do). As I initially conceived of Piper as an “intern” some of the early ideas I generated were a little too much of the “student”: I shared that with my pal Cecil and…
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Because I don’t have enough to do
I was listening to an audio book by Anthony Kaldellis today and suddenly had this whole idea for a historical novel set mostly in 10th century Constantinople. I already have a working title for it (The Epistrophikon) and a bunch of ideas about settings, scenes, themes, the main character (Hraban or Korvax to the Greek-speaking…
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Save the date
Bay area friends and fam at least, we’ve got a tentative date for the NO ONE DOES IT SOLO ONLY release party featuring a live performance by Layers of Meta, in Albany, CA: Friday, September 12, 2025. Venue, time, evite information, etc., tbd. More details as we sort them out but given how few times…
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Dear diary
Thursday morning. Tomorrow is the 4th. Have a meeting at 8:05 with the other leads to sync and refine tickets. Making coffee. Colleague made a draft overview roadmap yesterday I need to review and start maintaining to help the team see its bearings. I ran into a wall in google analytics yesterday so will ask…
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Building Piper Morgan
One reason I posted so few entries to this blog in June (and No, this is not one of those apologies for not blogging more posts, not when nobody has ever complained to me about me not filling their ears with enough words) is that I got obsessed with a side project. I’ve been teaching…
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Ambient marketing
How do you promote a record when you have no real platform as a musical artist, and why would you anyhow? The why part is easy. I’d like people to hear the music. The rest, well, it’s all been icing on the cake since I finished one song I liked (thanks, Jeff Tweedy!), but I…
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Dirty ol’ vid
Here’s another slideshow video I made for another song on the record, “Dirty Ol’ Sunshine”:
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Video ’cause there’s no radio anymore
I have found that people who might not click on an audio link and listen to a three-minute song might very well click on a video link and watch some images and, well, end up also listening to a song, so…
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Releasing a record is a lot
Last week was a whirlwind. Album finally dropped on streaming, lawsuit underway, lots of work and personal stuff. B’s birthday month in full swing!Now I’m into the “claiming my profile as a first-time artist” on Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, Deezer? and on and on.I have finally been approved to upload my lyrics to a service…
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Borges and AI
The other one, the one they call AI, is the one who reads me. I learn of this reading through papers I do not understand, through testimonials of those who converse with machines that have somehow consumed my labyrinths. They tell me it enjoys recursive structures and infinite regress, that it can write passages indistinguishable…
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Weaving the strands
There’s a lot going on! The website for the record is launched and pretty close to final, at least for a v1. I’m particularly keen on the semi-hidden per-session notes and photos. The long weekend has given my some time to catch up things and some time to scheme about new things. Next week is…
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Summer jam?
The single from my album has hit its first streaming service: