christian crumlish doing stuff
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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:
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Deep breaths…
I have received my shipment of prerelease CDs (unboxing vid below). So not only can you order a CD now, but if you do it soon, you can actually get your copy before the official release date in June. For now, I’m just savoring that new CD smell. (Cover art by Dave Gray. Sleeve design…
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Launching soon…
The Kickstarter campaign for the limited edition vinyl LP release of No One Does it Solo Only will be launching soon. You can sign up to notified when the campaign launches for real (within the next two weeks), now on the site.
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This wasn’t how I pictured
My recent appearance in the Princeton alumni weekly (PAW) wasn’t exactly how I might have pictured showing up there, back in the previous millennium when I was still an undergrad.
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Which dreamed it?
A colleague of mine was telling us about Google’s “Notebook LLM” which enables you to upload or point to as specific body of content and then get a summary, chat about the content, or even have the LLM generate a semi-plausible sounding synthetic “podcast” in which two perky morning-show type hosts discuss what you’ve shoveled…
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Settling in
The first three weeks on a new job, with the ongoing community work supporting other 18F alumni, trying to finish up the website for my record before it comes out next month and get the Kickstarter campaign set up to fund the vinyl version, all within the wild national context we’re all bobbing around in…
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Merch mocks
Since I decided to run a Kickstarter campaign to try to raise some funds (and gauge the level of interest) for a vinyl release of No One Does It Solo Only, and that means thinking about the rewards at various tiers. I can share more of my thinking on that soon if anyone cares, but…
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Prankster babies
I grabbed a Lyft today (long story) to head down to the VA on Old Middlefield and fell into a conversation with an animated, tie-dyed, trim-gray-bearded fellow named Max as he drove me to my destination. I forget how we got onto the subject, but it turns out Max is the son of one of…