Timelapse of sunset, moonrise and sunrise from Homer in Alaska.

Hike to the Grewingk Glacier in Kachemak Bay State Park. Inaccessible by car, so it's a boat ride from Homer to across the trail and pick you up at the other end. Lots of varied forest and then the glacier is incredible.

Hike starts at: 59.612729, -151.190267. View in Google Earth.

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One way four mile trail from Savage Campground to Savage River in Denali National Park. There is a free shuttle bus back (and to the entrance area if no parking deeper in the park). This direction is 1,500 fet up and then 1,700 down with the descent in just a mile and a half. Fantastic variety of terrain and scenery.

Hike starts at: 63.715504, -149.254807. View in Google Earth.

Four mile out and back hike along the Toklat River in Denali National Park. No trails in this part of the park, just pick a direction and go. Until a bridge is repaired this is the last stop on the park road bus route.

Hike starts at: 63.558897, -149.794342. View in Google Earth.

Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/800s ISO21

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Here's a simple Google Apps Script to monitor for new OpenAI models:

To get this running, paste into a new Apps Script project and enable the Gmail API under services. Add your email address and OpenAI API Key at the top. Run a couple of times and you should get an email with all the current models and then nothing the second time unless you get lucky. On Triggers set a scheduled execution with whatever frequency feels good (I use daily) and you're all set.

Timelapse shot from Panoramic Park at the top of Yerba Buena Island. This features the Point of Infinity sculpture, the Bay Bridge, Treasure Island, Angel Island, Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge and downtown San Francisco.

From the department of things I wouldn't have bothered with a year ago, here's a python script to set Todoist label colors.

Why? I like a productivity environment with some color and flare, and it also helps to visually recognize what a task relates to. But setting label colors is more clicks than I have patience for.

How? Just figure out embeddings for each available color and then for each label. Use cosine similarity to set the color that best suits each label. Colors will stay consistent for existing labels and new ones will get just a dash of semantic meaning in their assignments.

Here's the code (you need an OpenAI API key and a Todoist API token set as environment variables):

Updated 2026-03-07 03:28:

I have been wondering what a Cadillac version of this silly project would look like. The current version gives me colors, but not based on a lot of meaning. I also have to remember to find and run the python script when I add a new label. So I refactored this to run in Google Apps Script and to try and make those colors mean something. This is a two step process. First, the script uses GPT 5.4 to generate a description of each color including cultural significance and the kinds of tasks it might be associated with. Embeddings for these descriptions are cached. Second, the script loads three tasks for each label and finds the most similar color embedding for the sample tasks.

The script is scheduled to run weekly so I don't need to remember to do anything, always a big win.

It might end up being irritating as label colors will change over time. This might convey a subtle sense of what the label currently means, or it might just make it harder to remember the associations. Too soon to tell. In case this is ever helpful to anyone here's the code:

Google Pixel 8 Pro 18mm f2.8 1/257s ISO17

Ok, technically it's R:Evolution, towering over the end of Market Street trying to make downtown happen again while gazing at a haphazardly decorated utility box.