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March 10, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Finished 3.96 mile walk in 80.6 minutes. 🚶‍♂️

March 9, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad
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We joined friends Joe & Lisa for Life of Pi at the Orpheum tonight. We had seen it on Broadway in 2023 and were excited to see it again. It was a great performance. Recommended!

Four friends smiling in a selfie under the lit marquee of the Orpheum Theatre advertising Life of Pi. Orpheum Theatre marquee advertising the Tony Award-winning production Life of Pi, photographed from below against a cloudy sky.
March 9, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad
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Tried the new Yonsei at Lake & Irving for the first time. It was so pretty on the plate I decided to capture it. This is Japanese fried rice with Ginger Scalion Tofu and Ahi katsu.

Japanese fried rice topped with ginger scallion tofu, seared ahi katsu, microgreens, sesame seeds, and creamy sauce in a gray ceramic bowl.
March 9, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Finished 2.31 mile walk in 56.6 minutes. 🚶‍♂️

March 9, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad
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I asked my Weekly Thing GPT a simple question “Which issue did the Fortune first appear in?”. Seems easy enough. It came back with Weekly Thing 212 in 2022. I knew that was not right. The right answer? Weekly Thing 53 in 2018. Another example where LLMs are not great at specific and exact requests. 🤨

March 9, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad
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How I Use AI in the Weekly Thing

I’ve been working with AI for a while now, and as I feel with all new technologies, the best way to learn them is to play with them. I’ve started to bring AI into my workflow for the Weekly Thing and thought it would be good to share specifically where and how I’m using it. …

Keep reading · 9 minutes: How I Use AI in the Weekly Thing
March 9, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad
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My cousin Josh recently shared a cappella renditions of Wild Mountain Thyme and Red is the Rose — both beautiful songs that I could listen to over and over again. 🎶

March 8, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Finished 1.76 mile walk in 41.2 minutes. 🚶‍♂️

March 8, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad
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View from the upper seat in the NorthUp Sauna while the fire is getting started. The translucent walls make it very bright and warm inside — it was 70 °F from the sun before I started the fire. Added a hygrometer, a second sand timer, and trying Eucalyptus Sauna Scent for the first time.

Interior of a transparent-walled geodesic sauna with light wood benches, a black wood-burning stove with chimney pipe, and two gauges mounted on the frame.
March 7, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad
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Arrived at the cabin tonight and were greeted with a two-foot-high snow plow line to shovel through. Cleared enough to barrel through.

Night shot of a large snow plow berm blocking a driveway entrance near a mailbox marked 6025, with marker stakes visible along the edge.
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