James R. Strickland (he/him)

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So…let’s talk about vision. About a month ago, I had a detached retina in my right eye, and the subsequent surgery to repair it. The problem is: it has drastically changed the vision in that eye so that my glasses don’t work with it. It makes it hard to read. This is bad for a writer.

With some tweaking, and working from my most recent glasses prescription, I was able to work up settings that allow me to read well. Not as well as before—my right eye will never be the instrument it was—but well enough. Thus, the picture above. I was never one who worried about looking funny. :P

So…let’s talk about vision. About a month ago, I had a detached retina in my right eye, and the subsequent surgery to repair it. The problem is: it has drastically changed the vision in that eye so that my glasses don’t work with it. It makes it hard to read. This is bad for a writer.

There was no way I was going that long without being able to read or work. It’s bad for sanity. So I ordered this: www.amazon.com/dp/B077HRKX9...

So…let’s talk about vision. About a month ago, I had a detached retina in my right eye, and the subsequent surgery to repair it. The problem is: it has drastically changed the vision in that eye so that my glasses don’t work with it. It makes it hard to read. This is bad for a writer.

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So here’s a pickle. Does anyone know for sure whether SFWA considers the version of LanguageTool where you run your own server locally an LLM for purposes of Nebula eligibility? I mean, it’s not like I’m in the running for one, or even a member, but…

#mac #review. A short review of my new Mac Studio m4max. The thing that creeps up on you is just now fast this thing is internally. Moving up from an M1 mini, the bandwidth to the SSD is astonishing. The thing boots almost instantly. Blender starts in one bounce of the dock icon.

Spacewise it has exactly the same footprint as my m1 mini, but is about three times the height. And the power button is on the side, as Jobs intended, not on the bottom, which is just dumb if you ever turn the thing off.

#mac #review. A short review of my new Mac Studio m4max. The thing that creeps up on you is just now fast this thing is internally. Moving up from an M1 mini, the bandwidth to the SSD is astonishing. The thing boots almost instantly. Blender starts in one bounce of the dock icon.

Why a Studio and not an m4 mini? I did the math. As of right now, an m4 mini with the M4 pro CPU, (20gpu model) 48 gigs of ram, a tb of SSD, and 10gb eithernet is a twenty-three hundred dollar computer.

#mac #review. A short review of my new Mac Studio m4max. The thing that creeps up on you is just now fast this thing is internally. Moving up from an M1 mini, the bandwidth to the SSD is astonishing. The thing boots almost instantly. Blender starts in one bounce of the dock icon.

IOS 2026 first impression: screen jizz is back. So is skeuomorphism, apparently. Looks cheezy.

If you want to understand what's wrong with AI writing, consider this: Cats have a finite number of behaviors. You could put a few hundred of the most common in an AI model and have it generate the statistically most likely next behavior. And you'd miss out on everything that makes a cat a pet.