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e and terror fueled night are pretty hazy posted by redbeard at 2 06 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gaming memes musings self video games videos wednesday march 11 2026 this ll be your big chance to get away from it all outside of checking out a few cities in retail as seen in the previous post i took the past several days off from playing wow i d like to say that i had projects that had priority over any video game playing but that wasn t the case i simply didn t feel like logging in and playing on my alliance toons i did check the bank alts a couple of times to make sure i wasn t losing anything via in game mail but beyond that i didn t do much this is but one page of my junk mail this sort of break is a necessary part of any endeavor and because i have no external pressure to complete anything in game i can take as many breaks as i need this was something i sorely missed in 2021 and i fully intend to take advantage of my lack of commitment right now so what have i been doing thinking about this no this is not my house from a reviewer at the home depot s website yes it s creeping toward gardening season and i ve already obtained some seeds for this year and this year i m actually going to put in a couple of raised beds in the backyard so i can plant a vegetable garden in the yard the first one since the mini reds were little here s to hoping the deer won t be that hungry outside of that i ve just been taking a mental break goofing around doing this and that and catching up on some of my writing by the time this posts i might be back into wow but whether or not isn t that great of a concern what s important is that i enjoy what i m doing if you re like me and have far too much accumulated junk for a bank alt or two you just move stuff around via in game mail in wow at least you have 30 days before the mail and attachments returns to the sender and then 30 days it can sit in the sender s inbox before it s automatically removed so if you keep up with juggling in game mail you can move a ton of stuff around relatively speaking of course my friends group would want me to get to outland and level faster it s not quite so overt right now but it s one of those generally understood things but i m being my contrarian self right now and am actively resisting that posted by redbeard at 7 30 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hobbies musings retail self wow classic anniversary saturday january 17 2026 i m a what now one of the more interesting things about my struggle to figure out why this blog has not been indexed by google search lately has been that i ve discovered that the term parallel context is now being used by large language model training the term parallel context windows appears to have been first utilized in 2022 in a paper published here which is alternately amusing and vexing it wouldn t shock me if a lot of the bot traffic here has been attracted to pc simply because of the name s utilization in ai development this is the search result using incognito mode to remove any trained tendencies from my account on january 17 2026 yeah i mean parallel context as a naming convention isn t exactly unusual but the annoying part is that it just had to show up in ai related activity that being said i did update the about parallel context to reference that this blog predates the usage of the term with llms and ai by over a decade so hopefully nobody comes knocking on my door with some weird cease and desist by my usage of the term on this blog if someone does i might need to get in touch with rick beato to find out what lawyer he uses to fight off youtube strikes from the big music conglomerates as for whether this little discovery has an impact on pc s search engine indexing it probably doesn t just a hunch here but given that google has started slowly indexing some of my blog posts over the past week or two i don t believe it actually has an impact as of january 17 2026 the indexing listing above shows that i m actually getting some pages indexed and that s despite google search still hasn t acknowledged the sitemap xml that microsoft bing approved back in september 2025 as of january 17 2026 so you ve got me as to what changed i did try to see if i could fix the issues with the alternate page with proper canonical tag error by removing the mobile device option for the blog the main error listings as of january 17 2026 and the detailed results of the alternate page error on january 17 2026 which as you see all have the mobile designation of m 1 present after several days however the resubmission still returned an error so the issue isn t with that but there are posts being indexed so again go figure if nothing else i either need to git gud with understanding the details about google search results or hire a search whisperer to understand the arcane details of the search process cardwyn you need someone to help you understand the arcane me i said arcane details not the arcane cardwyn oh because my rates are low and you could use the help me i ought to not let this stuff bug me so much as it does since i ve got enough things i m working on the past several months but the lack of understanding the why of it does get under my skin and now knowing that the blog s name has been utilized in a field that has nothing to do with the subject of this blog is like a mosquito bite that you can t help but scratch because it itches so damn bad but you know you shouldn t scratch it at all oh well for any people doing research on parallel context windows and happened to stumble on this post this blog parallel context has been around since september 2009 and is still being actively updated with posts as of january 17 2026 so yeah pc has been around a lot longer than the current llm and ai research i did switch it back this morning likely after shintar posted a comment this morning about potential changes but before i saw her comment myself so shintar and others who use mobile devices to read the blog can read it much better eta i cleaned up some formatting posted by redbeard at 4 23 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging parallel context self wednesday january 14 2026 the state of the redbeard in 2026 truth be told i ve not felt much like writing the past few weeks i guess that s to be expected since i wrote more posts for the past year 187 than i have at any other year during the blog s existence while at the same time working on personal writing projects and that doesn t even count the writing and reports i put together for work while i understand the allure of using tools such as chat gpt and others to compose for you i really dislike the lack of control that those tools encourage while i ve seen those tools likened to using a car s automatic transmission or other time saving tools none of those other tools replace the human as the center of the creative process quite like the so called generative ai tools do it could be argued that you have full control over the editing process but i ve found from watching people at work that once the ai tools get their hooks in you begin to simply accept their suggestions more and more without a critical eye that s the long version of saying that i m going to keep writing the way i always have been with me composing at the keyboard without any reliance upon generative ai in the creative process as i ve approached 2026 with some weariness on the writing front i ve also come to a bit of a crossroads with my gaming perhaps its more of a recognition that my physical skills never were as good as i wished they could be and that the reality of retirement being a little over a decade away has lent a bit of weight to my end of year musings it s now four years on after i cheated death and i have found it more of a struggle to maintain my numbers than before oh i still make my numbers well enough and my doctors are happy with how i m doing but i ve come to recognize over the past 3 4 months that it s not quite so easy as before to maintain my weight and blood pressure while eating the same amount of food there are two obvious answers here to exercise more and to eat less but i have enough foresight to recognize that there s only so much i can do before things start to decline again as one of the diabetes team members told me what i ve got are progressive diseases and you can only hold them off for so long not exactly the most positive assessment of my situation but probably the most realistic still the knowledge that my time is finite has changed what i want out of gaming i was never one to chase highs from defeating bosses or in pvp although i ll freely acknowledge the rush in doing so but i ve pulled back from that in general i get more out of playing with people enjoying their company than i get from competing with people i am less tolerant of drama when it detracts from my long term enjoyment of a game although there have been times when i ve thought long and hard about stirring up some crap when i thought some asshat truly deserved it in gen chat in an mmo i ve also become more and more interested in the types of connections that people make within video games perhaps that s been piqued by my own experiences making firm friendships within mmos and the blogging community but it could also be due to my fascination with how the rp community operates in retail wow and to a lesser extent lotro and ffxiv yes yes i know that fascination can fuel an unhealthy relationship with players in goldshire s lion s pride inn on moon guard us and i have to admit that i m still stunned whenever i poke my nose in there by the sheer number of people getting their freak on it s slightly more normal when you go into stormwind but even then let s just say that there s always something there when i run through to the bank or the auction house that makes me go wtf yeah this certainly did and run into a light pole too clank i m not about to deny people their fun because i ve lived the satanic panic and am extremely wary of people claiming moral authority and informing me what i can and can t do but i do wonder about the connections we make in games and where some of these more extreme personal expressions fit into the gaming spectrum definitely puts a crimp into me working the ah for all the people who brush those weighty concepts off saying nah bro it s all just joking around i think they sell themselves short from the benefit of having watched the internet rise into its current form over the past 35 years i don t think we can brush off the connections we make as not being important in the end these connections are all we have that stand a chance at outliving us because most of us will never paint a mona lisa or construct the notre dame and in the case of video games a company could decide to pull the plug on a live service game tomorrow and what would you be left with then memories of the game and the connections we made yeah i ve been pondering some deep issues this past month or more and i don t have a clear resolution to them i watch some of my in game friends chase raiding in tbc classic and while i wish them well i m not following in their path i ve no desire to deal with drama the need to push yourself hard to keep up and following the gear treadmill to validate my playing a game it s not a matter of the old accusatory line if i can t keep up i m taking my ball and going home that i know my decision could easily be interpreted but for me it s more of a if i can t keep up i need to find a different way to have fun and remain valued there i said it i m not as good as i ever thought i was if i were i d have a bit more success under my belt than i have i recognize that external success with dexterity heavy systems such as video games and sports such as soccer or basketball is highly dependent upon who you play with in addition to innate skill but i now have enough hard earned knowledge to admit i was never as good as i hoped and father time hasn t exactly done me any favors over the past decade and a half either or rather my doctors cheated death as i cynically used to put it we begin to die as soon as we re born i ve seen that quote attributed to various people from the bhudda to bret harte so i have no idea who first said it and i m not inclined to spend a few hours or more chasing that down given what i know of my readership if you re reading this and this post gets the average number of pageviews there s a greater than 70 chance you and i already are acquainted in the community now watch this post blow up and make a liar out of me sure there could be mere bystanders like me but i doubt we re even close to a quarter of the people in there at any given time and if you are a bystander and are in there for more than a minute or two you re likely propositioned at least once i know i have and in my most recent encounter i wasn t in there for more than a handful of seconds to turn in a quest and sell some stuff yes despite appearances there s still a quest giver inside the inn posted by redbeard at 4 07 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gaming musings retail role playing self wow classic anniversary wednesday november 12 2025 a little something to do part 2 here s a link for part 1 in early september i went hunting on the american radio relay league s website for amateur radio classes the arrl is the largest us amateur radio umbrella organization they advocate for amateur radio to the fcc and congress they encourage amateur radio contests and classwork and they have their own series of publications for and about amateur radio like my study book from part 1 the arrl does have their detractors and holy crap are those people vocal about it but the arrl is also the best voice that amateur radio has in the us maybe it s because my mind works the same way as the webmasters who designed the arrl s website i quickly found a free class available beginning in september and lasting through october i quickly emailed the contact person who confirmed that yes they still have openings and i could just show up at the bright early time of 9 am on saturday morning at the red cross building here in cincinnati if you ever wondered whether ham radio and mmo hobbies are similar yes they are from imgflip and sp3pow the night before that first class i tossed and turned in bed finally getting to sleep after 1 am it had been at least 24 years since i last had an in person class and i wasn t sure what to expect would i be the oldest person there would there be a crowd what sort of people would the students be the instructors would i have issues even getting inside the building the answer to that last question thankfully was no there were two people monitoring the front door and i didn t get 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