Today was a great day on the slopes. Not because of the skiing, mind you. The slopes are in desperate need of some more snow, and there were definitely some sketchy moments navigating some icy stretches. When it wasn’t icy, the high of 8 degrees Celsius was softening things up. It was by no means…

There hasn’t been much snow since last weekend, but that hasn’t stopped us coming up for another week. We have come up with some friends, and think we are going to have a blast for the next few days. To make it better, the drive was well under 2 hours, so we can spend our…

Last week I started a group chat with a bunch of the dads. Ky is in a VERY active mum’s, I mean mom’s, group, so I wanted to do the same. It’s pretty simple. Turn up to the Jefferson Park Pub (4.8 on Google) anytime after 8 on a Wednesday. It was just me and…

Today I trialed out OpenAI’s new scientific writing tool, Prism. I wasn’t super impressed with where it is NOW, but I love where it could potentially go. Writing academic and scientific papers is hard, and always will be. But one of the things that is unnecessarily difficult is incorporating LaTeX, which is essentially the way…

I am part of a fantasy football league with one other guy, an old colleague from Kiwibank. After a good start, I have largely forgotten about it. This all changed in Round 20, when I was automatically added to the FPL cup, a knockout competition. Each week you would be assigned a random opponent; score…

It was a long drive back from Crested Butte, including our break, about 5 hours from door to door on windy roads. Is it nice to have a short commute? Of course. Is it nice to spend 5 hours to chat about everything and nothing? Absolutely.