Claden’s Notes: Headed to Gitma
Leaving Timo, the gnomish village plagued by some mycological parasite. We are in search of Brightstone.
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Author: Shane
Music Recording: Stone Pillars
One of John Frusciante’s most beautiful guitar-driven tracks is “Ramparts”. It has tons of interlaced guitar parts, it sounds great. So today while I was dinking around, I tried creating something with a similar feel.
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Music Recording: Autumn Evenings
I was looking to upload something to Soundcloud, and it turns out I already had an account, and I stumbled upon this recording from 5 years ago. I quite liked it and thought it was worth sharing.
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Creating Replacement Members for Steam Shovel Boom
For a couple years my dad has been working on a Thew Type-O Steam Shovel from the early 1900s (you can read more about it HERE). Today I was home to help replace some of the structural components of the boom. These pieces were severely eroded after being under water for almost 100 years and […]
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USB-C Charging on Ideapad Flex 5
This is the second time my laptop has refused to charge via it’s USB-C port. Perhaps some sort of static discharge causing the circuit to protect itself? Here is the solution that’s worked for me: This is meant to act as an archive of the information I found here (in case the post gets deleted): […]
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Summer Solstice ’23
Midway points always cause me to reflect. Today is the longest day of the year – am I wasting it, or am I squandering it? Summers are an interesting time for a professor – I’ve got a huge block of unstructured time; do I relax or do I achieve new things? I know the answer […]
Robots Doing Homework?
This is a rough transcription of a talk I gave at the 2023 Upper Peninsula Teaching and Learning Conference. I really think that AI in academia is the most important contemporary issue for educators to address, and I chose the topic so I could formulate my own thoughts and opinion on the matter.
Lego MOC – Birthday Cake
My daughter is going to be 3 in a little more than a week! So I figured it would be nice to make a decoration to help get the little one excited (not that she really needed any help). I came up with the idea and made the base, but was having trouble with the […]
WordPress Archive Trouble
The theme I am using renders any archive or category list page in a weird way. First, it creates a very large featured image. Second, it renders all of the relevant posts, and not just the excerpts. I am by no means a WordPress wiz, but I know enough things to get into trouble. Here’s […]
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June 2023 Playlist
I make a playlist (about) every other month. This month I’ve been trying out Spotify’s AI DJ to decent success (in terms of finding good new to me music)