My uncle just got remarried, after losing his wife of some 40+ years to dimentia. The wedding was Saturday, so I flew up there in the early morning with my two sisters who live here in Utah. And then, because my four year-old daughter had her first primary program in church this Sunday, I flew… Continue reading Up and Back from Denver
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Late October Update
It’s been a really mild autumn this year. We got our first hard frost only about a week ago, and it’s currently about 66 degrees outside. Feels positively balmy! The image above is my current computer setup. The playpen is for the kids to watch a show while I’m working on the other monitor, such… Continue reading Late October Update
Some (better) advice for the chronically single
So the Daily Wire recently put out an interesting article about the current trend of chronically single young adults who want to get married but have had zero luck, especially with today’s online dating scene. From what I can tell, online dating is like a post-apocalyptic wasteland right now—which is a huge problem, because ever… Continue reading Some (better) advice for the chronically single
The wildest AI hallucination I have ever seen
So my wife is currently working on her PhD in computer science, and for her thesis she’s trying to develop an AI model that can generate meaningful cross references within a text. For example, she compiled the complete works of Jane Austen into an HTML file, and ran it through one of her AI models,… Continue reading The wildest AI hallucination I have ever seen
Why I no longer consider myself to be a libertarian
I’ve been going back and forth on this post for almost a year now, wondering how exactly to express my thoughts. Some of the positive reviews on my fiction have expressed that I write “libertarian fiction,” and in some ways, I think that’s accurate: certainly, I value liberty very strongly, and support those government policies… Continue reading Why I no longer consider myself to be a libertarian
How Not To Write An AI-Assisted Novel
The worst way to write a novel with generative AI is to make the AI do all the work. In fact, thinking of it in terms of “how much of the work can I get the AI to do?” is pretty much guaranteed to give you a really crappy book by the end of it.… Continue reading How Not To Write An AI-Assisted Novel
Vasicek family Christmas traditions
I’ve been thinking for a while now that I need to write these down somewhere, and why not share it as well? Here is a list of all of the things we do as a family during the Christmas season. We don’t always hit all of them every year, but we do hit most of… Continue reading Vasicek family Christmas traditions
Back from Coeur d’Alene
It occurs to me that most of my posts in the past month have either been extremely doom-and-gloom, or they’ve been excerpts from some of my most recent work. This probably gives the impression that I’m huddled in a corner somewhere, black-pilled and traumatized, and seeking some sort of an escape through my writing, when… Continue reading Back from Coeur d’Alene
Where have I been?
So it’s been almost two weeks since I last posted anything, including any of the half-dozen or so short stories I’ve listened to that I feel are worth sharing. What’s going on? We did just have a new baby less than two months ago, though that’s not been as disruptive to everything as I expected.… Continue reading Where have I been?
Prepping for a new novel project
I am so far behind on so many things right now. My in-laws went to Idaho for the week, so all of the childcare has fallen on us while they’re gone, and we’ve just been swamped. I know that there are amazing parents out there who can watch five kids at a time, by themselves,… Continue reading Prepping for a new novel project