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I don't think I know anybody who still works here, but apparently my database entries have continued to roll forward these last 18 years. I was reminded of the site from my son looking for cursor packs for windows, and dissuading him from running random executables downloaded from SEO'd websites. (he found some very cute cursors...) I vaguely recall the ML training fiasco, (which may be ongoing,) but I have so little here it doesn't impact me personally. I'm old and salty enough to be of the mindset that if it's posted on the internet, unless very deliberate actions are taken to restrict access, your data (including this public post) will be mined for profit where possible. There is no public space on the internet except where explicitly carved out by governments -- the default is private ownership. The best thing that could happen for ML is establishment of clear liability of model owners for the products of their models since they are derivative works by definition. Maybe this

so here we are almost six years since my last journal post. I heard dA got sold... came back wondering if anybody I knew from the early days (hi mccann (https://www.deviantart.com/mccann) ) was still around or active. and I find myself once again sitting at my workstation in the basement, this time with kid #3 on my lap. I took a bunch of hard drives to the local recycler last week.  more iterations, but a lot of the same. it's been so long since I've shot film, it took me over a year to realize that my local store doesn't even have a developer on-site anymore.  I have a romantic notion of shooting B&W again, developing in my basement, and scanning the negatives, but it

What a hectic time since my last post. * my brother got married * my wife and I found out we were expecting a child * I got a new job (as a contractor) * our son, Desmond, was born * our second cat (Felix) passed away * I got hired as a full-time employee Desmond is asleep now, and my wife and a friend are watching Glee from the never-ending netflix / roku font. I'm guessing I have another hour or so until Desmond wakes up and I'm summoned to head to bed. I'm in my basement going through old hard drives, identifying the dead ones for recycling, reformatting, doing some limited benchmarking, doing some updates, and generally trying to