Rick Brannan
@rickbrannan
Data Architect/Data Wrangler. Doer of ML/MT and AI thingies. Translator of Lexham Press' "Apostolic Fathers." Mastermind behind the "Lexham English Septuagint." Now working on Baylor Handbook for Shepherd of Hermas. He/Him. web:
Is it a bad omen when a not-dead bat is by the mat of your outdoor hotel door in mid-afternoon heat of 100+ degrees? Found on way out to pool. Fun times
We've been without my Dad for two years. Two years of missed joys and missed pain. And all the missed normal stuff. I won't say it's easier, I'll just say it's different. Miss you, Dad.
Reading Pope Leo's _Magnifica Humanitas_, and this one jumped out at me. From chapter 3 (paragraph 99):
Yesterday the 9yo and I spent some time pulling loose nails from the deck and replacing them with screws. Fun times.
Getting real Santa Clause 3 vibes from this. (You have young kids, you watch all the Santa Clause movies, even the bad ones, unfortunately)
On our driveway, created by one of the therapists that works with our 9yo.
Woo Hoo! Side-hustle productivity grinds to a halt! That's OK. I've gotta go grocery shopping anyway and pay significantly higher prices because our twice-impeached felon-in-chief is doing stupid stuff in Iran and has burdened us with tariffs out the wazoo.
So if you're minding your own business, using Claude Code, you see this symbol appear and think: "metobelus!" … whenever you're in Bellingham, I'll buy breakfast/lunch/☕/🍻/whatever because we should talk.
It must be official since I got the swag. Day 3 at Gloo in the books.
Here's the question I asked my early-Christian-documents RAG system: "What would early Christians think about a government where a group of government employees only embarked on policies that would greaten their own power or enrich themselves even more?" The answer (first paragraph):
Hit a Claude token limit and literally just posted this to my supervisor on Slack: "Ugh, Claude booted me until 6PM because I'm sucking tokens like Joey Chestnut at a hot dog eating contest."
This is caught up in English -> Greek NT alignment context, but what I have so far is below. (apologies for no alt text)
Really winning at this Claude Code thing. Someone's gotta keep that thing in line.
Well, I don't mean to brag, but Claude Code just told me this so I guess I'm super awesome.
Not sure why or how, but @iannelsonmills.bsky.social's book "The Hypothesis of the Gospels" is available in hardcover at Amazon for $10.33 (at least for me). If thou hast not obtaineth this surely magnificent tome, go thou and buy, for thine library requireth it. amzn.to/3NXfmHy
Ugh, just saw this logo thing (it is being used to mean 'AI', but isn't a logo for the place where I saw it, which will remain nameless for now) and my brain hurts. My brain wants to read 'Li' but knows it's been subverted to mean 'AI'.
Kids playing some weird Star Wars / Minecraft mashup and now I can't unsee it.
I'm confused; is this what Bondi wants us to talk about? www.cnbc.com/2026/02/22/s...