Meal Prepping While Recounting Programming History

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[0:00] it's time fellow humans today we cook
[0:03] some food we prepare it so that we can
[0:05] make meals all
[0:07] week I got my stuff I got my new Skillet
[0:11] over here so we're going to do that and
[0:13] we're going to talk about my life as a
[0:14] programmer because I realize I've never
[0:16] done that with you and you guys really
[0:19] the only thing I ever really see is I've
[0:21] been programming since I was 8 years old
[0:23] that means nothing I haven't actually
[0:25] told you anything about my life as a
[0:27] programmer and it would explain a lot as
[0:29] to why I struggle so much with daily
[0:33] normal stuff that you guys can probably
[0:35] do in your sleep that is just completely
[0:38] unnatural to
[0:39] me the way I would describe this I guess
[0:43] is I have always lived in a digital
[0:45] world since I was 8 years old I'm 47
[0:47] nearly 40 years I have spent almost
[0:50] every waking moment of my life on a
[0:52] computer or out hiking those are pretty
[0:55] much the two things I did my whole life
[0:57] so I don't do real well in the physical
[1:00] world and I'm just trying to learn it
[1:03] all I mean I I moved out of my house I
[1:06] bought this RV moved into it
[1:10] and just everything is a challenge for
[1:12] me and I've been documenting it for four
[1:15] months and you guys are probably
[1:16] watching this going how is this guy
[1:18] still alive so let me just try to do
[1:22] this stuff here while I talk to you
[1:23] about my
[1:24] life so first things
[1:27] first I have to prepare a bunch of of
[1:30] things that Claude and AI has made a
[1:32] list for me and as you know an AI
[1:34] Overlord we're going to do it in the
[1:36] order that it says to do it because we
[1:38] don't want to get get it mad at us right
[1:41] first thing it says to do is to ground
[1:42] some some beef it did not tell me what
[1:45] temperature to put my Skillet on so I
[1:46] got to ask at
[1:49] that but I think I'm out of tokens so I
[1:52] don't know that I'll be able to I got my
[1:54] tablet here I'm sorry for the strange
[1:56] angles this particular um
[2:00] I call things things a lot because I
[2:02] don't know the proper words for them I'm
[2:05] sure you've noticed I I was thinking
[2:07] that's what kind of sparked the idea for
[2:08] this that cuz I called the little drawer
[2:11] thing over there I think it's called a
[2:13] cabinet or no I don't even think it's I
[2:15] don't know what it is it's a just a
[2:17] drawer thing it's a thing with
[2:18] drawers so anyways this camera thing
[2:22] that holds my
[2:23] camera I don't think it's a selfie stick
[2:27] maybe anyways it doesn't have like
[2:30] angles like it will not go down further
[2:32] than this so I'm going to have to
[2:34] experiment just just just you know try
[2:37] to bear with me I will get better at
[2:39] this with time but first we got to just
[2:41] ask Claude how do we even do this cook
[2:44] ground beef it says cook ground beef
[2:47] round 1 and2 PBS of ground beef in your
[2:49] electric skillet drain excess fat well I
[2:53] mean it just skipped a whole bunch of
[2:55] steps so let's just ask it deer clawed
[2:59] AI
[3:01] Overlord this is not working here we
[3:05] go what
[3:07] temperature do I cook the beef and for
[3:10] how
[3:12] long I hope I'm not out of tokens cuz
[3:14] that will not be good I am I get more
[3:19] messages 2 hours we are on our own so
[3:23] anyways this is the drewberry more
[3:26] electric skillet and I'm going to just
[3:27] come out and say that it's a bit of a
[3:30] scam it's supposedly like you adjustable
[3:33] number of quarts or something like that
[3:36] well that's just this little thing right
[3:38] here what's the point what is the point
[3:42] and it's got this thing I I do know I
[3:45] know this
[3:46] much well I don't really know this but I
[3:49] think that you put vegetables on it and
[3:52] it
[3:54] will cook them somehow from air water
[3:59] one of those
[4:00] steam steam so I'm guessing this is the
[4:04] skillet part and like what's the point
[4:06] of this like this is nothing and
[4:09] actually this smaller though especially
[4:11] if I get rid of this part so that's what
[4:12] we're
[4:14] doing um I do like that it has the place
[4:17] for my lid because that was a real
[4:18] problem with the other
[4:20] one that is way easier I feel like I
[4:24] should clean that first um I mean you
[4:28] know it just came out of the box
[4:31] so let's just do
[4:35] that I don't want to lose my sink space
[4:37] over here I hate that cuz like how are
[4:39] you supposed to you need a sink so I'm
[4:42] not putting the top on that I'm going to
[4:43] just try to work around
[4:45] it using this nasty water to clean this
[4:48] doesn't seem like a good idea either
[4:51] but
[4:53] um I mean I assume it's
[4:56] clean so let's just do that then dry it
[5:02] off I mean how bad can this really
[5:05] be
[5:08] so I mean I don't have this planned out
[5:10] I'm just going to try to take you
[5:11] through my history so that you you know
[5:14] as I remember things I'll talk about
[5:16] them but I'll try to start from the
[5:18] beginning I think it could be
[5:20] interesting so first let me get me the
[5:22] ground beef out oh wait I don't touch
[5:26] raw things that's just gross so let me
[5:28] get some gloves
[5:30] this just a very small
[5:33] space knocking stuff around
[5:37] already man I lost all my tokens when I
[5:41] wanted to do this if I have questions I
[5:43] can't
[5:44] ask um for those wondering a
[5:48] token is how am I going to explain
[5:51] this so AI run off a gpus basically um
[5:56] graphical processing units and which is
[5:59] very very interesting I I love that AI
[6:01] is not even running out they they use CP
[6:04] I'm trying not to get too technical here
[6:06] but basically they run off of graphics
[6:08] cards and just huge farms of them and so
[6:12] there's a limited amount of bandwidth
[6:15] that it has okay so if we're all using
[6:18] it at the same time you know we're using
[6:19] up all the resources so they put in
[6:21] these these resource limits that's
[6:23] basically what it is and I'm kind of in
[6:26] timeout right now yeah that's how i' say
[6:28] that
[6:30] um so when I I had Walmart do my my
[6:35] shopping for me and I didn't this is not
[6:37] how much beef I had ordered like I don't
[6:41] think and now I think I have too
[6:44] much 2.25 lbs I'm going to make burgers
[6:49] on my grill not today but there's more
[6:52] for that
[6:54] so 1 and2 lb
[6:59] so like
[7:03] 75 oh wait I should probably plug this
[7:06] in oh yeah and you want to I learned
[7:09] this for my other
[7:11] Skillet you want to like preheat it or
[7:16] something I'm going to put it on medium
[7:19] high cuz I don't know any
[7:20] better how am I supposed to know when
[7:22] it's
[7:25] ready like I don't know the answer to
[7:27] that
[7:30] it has a light my other one had a light
[7:32] that would turn off when it got to the
[7:33] temperature but that didn't mean it was
[7:34] preheated that just meant
[7:36] that it wasn't truly preheated I felt
[7:39] like because when I tried making Burgers
[7:41] on it depending on how long I waited
[7:44] sometimes it was better if I waited
[7:46] longer like like I don't know so we're
[7:50] going to give it a minute let's just
[7:52] start from the beginning so when I
[7:56] was 8 years old somewhere around there
[8:00] I don't actually remember what age I
[8:02] just say eight oh no we blew a fuse
[8:05] didn't we I heard a noise that sounded
[8:08] like a fuse
[8:12] noise what was that
[8:14] noise there it is
[8:17] again that sounds
[8:20] scary it's not a fuse why is it making
[8:22] that
[8:25] noise they can't be normal
[8:31] a little bit concerned
[8:35] now
[8:37] man please tell me that's normal why are
[8:40] you making a noise like
[8:44] that that sounded like abuse blowing I
[8:46] heard it twice I hope you guys heard it
[8:48] and you can tell me what's going on like
[8:51] a little worried now Bailey we're fine I
[8:54] know I sound anxious I'm not I'm being
[8:57] dramatic you're fine I got gloves and I
[8:59] can't touch you right
[9:01] now um so anyways um well I guess we
[9:06] could just go back to my I probably
[9:09] would know better based on the grade I
[9:10] was in
[9:14] so I was probably quite a bit older if
[9:16] I'm honest so it was probably 8th grade
[9:18] when I truly got into
[9:20] programming is that
[9:25] right I think I might it might have been
[9:27] eighth grade so I lived in Arkansas at
[9:30] the time I had just I'd been in the Boy
[9:33] Scouts from fourth to seventh grade and
[9:34] then we moved to Arkansas and I think
[9:37] that's when I got into computers so
[9:38] whatever age that is probably 13 14 so
[9:42] I'm kind of um being a little dishonest
[9:46] there because I should have I don't know
[9:48] why I thought eight but anyways
[9:51] um it was definitely e8th grade so or
[9:54] like this summer before 8th grade um
[10:00] my dad had a business and he got into
[10:03] computers and so I just immediately fell
[10:07] in love with the things and I started
[10:09] using them and breaking them almost
[10:11] daily I used to kill his computer almost
[10:13] daily that's how you learn by the way
[10:16] and so the first program and I really
[10:19] got into it I got right into the
[10:21] programming part of it um the first
[10:23] program I did was a bunch of what
[10:25] they're called batch tools they're
[10:26] basically Comm command line tools like I
[10:28] that's the first thing I did was make a
[10:30] bunch of command line tools and then
[10:31] distribute them on bulletin board
[10:32] systems first thing I
[10:34] did um first language I learned I think
[10:38] it was GW basic and then I quickly moved
[10:42] on to something called turbo Pascal
[10:44] which is by a company by named Borland
[10:46] that is still around but they don't make
[10:47] programming languages anymore they kind
[10:49] of pivoted and they do something else
[10:52] now and so the next thing I did was yeah
[10:57] eighth grade because I was in
[11:00] so in seventh grade I started playing
[11:03] tuba is that right no no
[11:07] no I'm reliving my past now guys 8th
[11:10] grade
[11:12] I um starting a new school in Arkansas I
[11:16] remember I was I was in the um
[11:17] principal's office like getting a
[11:19] schedule for you know what classes I
[11:21] take I guess and the band teacher saw me
[11:24] in there and she convinced me to start
[11:26] playing
[11:27] tuba and she even got it to where I had
[11:30] a free hour every single day where I
[11:33] could play just play the tuba in this
[11:35] room while she had like choir class in
[11:38] the main room so for two hours every day
[11:40] I played the tuba in
[11:41] school and I made a program for her
[11:44] called name my note it was um in GW
[11:46] basic and it just helped teach the kids
[11:49] the notes on a scale very simple and
[11:52] later I would expand that using turbo
[11:54] Pascal to um I rewrote it to um actually
[11:58] give them grades and she had like you
[12:00] know this interface where she could like
[12:03] just everything was tracked like it was
[12:05] pretty Advanced
[12:06] actually um feel like I'm not prepared
[12:10] for
[12:11] this the next thing I
[12:16] did was I made Monopoly on the
[12:20] computer and distributed that on
[12:22] bulletin board
[12:24] systems and that got me in a lot of
[12:27] trouble um I got threatened to be sued
[12:30] for that one and had to take it
[12:33] down so that was the early parts of my
[12:37] programming career how am I going to
[12:39] wrap this
[12:40] up I don't know what to do with that I
[12:42] guess the Ziploc bag I don't want to
[12:44] touch
[12:46] anything all right let's see
[12:51] [Music]
[12:53] here sorry if I seem scatterbrain I
[12:56] really this wasn't a planned thing for
[12:58] me you know
[12:59] so anyways back in
[13:02] like you know those early days I just
[13:05] did a lot of what any kid would do right
[13:09] I was just learning I was learning all
[13:11] the time I just had a super deep
[13:12] interest in it I need new
[13:17] gloves I have always wondered how do
[13:19] they do that always it's two that comes
[13:22] out how do they do that it's amazing to
[13:25] me
[13:27] [Music]
[13:29] let's
[13:30] see I had a pretty normal childhood so
[13:35] it wasn't all computers like I was in
[13:37] the Boy Scouts I was in bands I had you
[13:40] know um normal activities that any kid
[13:45] would and but I spent a lot of time on
[13:48] computers just learning computer
[13:51] languages now around the time I turned
[13:56] 18 I had been working on a project I had
[13:59] already been doing a lot of Consulting
[14:01] work I don't even remember how I found
[14:03] my clients
[14:08] um H honestly don't remember
[14:12] so there are a lot of different things I
[14:14] did back then
[14:17] I the kinds of clients I had you know I
[14:21] was helping them build websites and
[14:22] things like
[14:23] that um I was doing a lot of database
[14:26] work but I'll get into that in a minute
[14:29] um and I felt like a lot of the requests
[14:32] that they had for me they could do
[14:34] themselves if they just had some way of
[14:36] doing that if they just had some kind of
[14:38] an interface where they could make these
[14:39] little edits and things right kind of
[14:41] like WordPress so way before there was
[14:44] WordPress I created what's called a
[14:46] Content management system it was the
[14:47] very first one ever created it's a
[14:50] precursor to Wordpress
[14:54] and oh you know what we're probably
[14:57] going to have fire alarms going off and
[14:59] all kinds of other things really not
[15:02] good at
[15:03] this all right
[15:06] so give me a minute here got to get
[15:09] organized
[15:11] okay feel a little more
[15:14] prepared this can go here somehow how
[15:17] are you supposed to do that when it's
[15:20] hot what
[15:29] I think this might be on too high of a
[15:31] setting it is isn't it let's bring it
[15:35] down like medium low or
[15:40] something truly am not good at this
[15:44] that's
[15:45] okay this is how you learn just like how
[15:47] I learned the program I broke stuff all
[15:50] the
[15:51] times you know you learn from
[15:55] that all right
[15:59] so anyways the content management system
[16:01] I created is called D not wizard Matrix
[16:02] server and I made it open source it was
[16:05] free for
[16:06] everybody this does not look why is that
[16:09] so burnt
[16:14] already I'm so
[16:17] confused here I'm not too bad at this
[16:21] part I think I had it on too high of a
[16:25] setting anyway so I did that for years
[16:28] um I just kind of worked on it in my
[16:30] free time and it got very Advanced but
[16:33] it didn't really go anywhere it didn't
[16:35] take off
[16:36] because um the kind of person I am if I
[16:39] get bored with something I move on I do
[16:41] something else and kind of left that
[16:43] alone for a very long
[16:45] time
[16:46] um some other things I did back then I
[16:50] created a database system for Comcast
[16:53] that helped their text to um help with
[16:57] scheduling and I'm trying remember what
[16:59] that thing did it did a whole bunch of
[17:01] stuff it was just a database written in
[17:03] Microsoft accesses of all things and it
[17:06] was for one specific office and then one
[17:09] day I got a call from a Comcast employee
[17:12] in Chicago who had a copy of my database
[17:15] and shouldn't have because it wasn't
[17:16] licensed to them and he said that their
[17:18] people couldn't hack into it so he
[17:19] needed my help he didn't even know that
[17:22] he technically should not have like I
[17:26] should have been paid for them what they
[17:27] were doing and
[17:29] and you know it was just kind of fortu
[17:32] this timing because I was kind of I
[17:34] think I was in between jobs at the time
[17:36] so I didn't really bring any of that up
[17:38] I just started working with the guy and
[17:39] I worked with him for years on all kinds
[17:41] of different
[17:43] projects um at one time I wrote a
[17:46] program called Tech op Suite which
[17:48] was similar it just more broad it was
[17:51] for um all the different um
[17:54] telecommunications company and it's
[18:00] um I think another one's called hsd
[18:02] network.com can't remember pretty sure
[18:06] that yeah high speed
[18:07] data
[18:10] um why is some of this
[18:13] burnt it seems like if it gets in the
[18:15] corners it
[18:18] burns I'm
[18:23] confused this is definitely a pretty
[18:25] good Skillet though
[18:36] so it's really hard for me to I guess go
[18:39] in chronological order with all my
[18:41] different projects so for a very long
[18:43] time all my life honestly I've been a
[18:47] freelancer I've never worked for a
[18:49] company directly I've always been
[18:51] self-employed my whole life and um I
[18:55] used to get a lot of my work on guru.com
[18:59] um it's it's just a platform it's kind
[19:01] of like eBay for programmers like you
[19:04] can go on there and if you have work
[19:07] that you're trying to get done some kind
[19:09] of programming work you can post a job
[19:10] about it and then then we would bid on
[19:13] that job and you could hire us to do the
[19:15] work so I did that for a long time in
[19:18] fact I was the only individual the only
[19:22] individual and the only American at the
[19:25] time to be in the top 10
[19:29] um all the other one all other nine of
[19:33] them were were Indian companies you know
[19:37] that had had large teams large staff
[19:40] well I managed to do it as an individual
[19:42] I was very proud of that I you know I
[19:44] worked on all kinds of different
[19:47] projects um you know as as a
[19:51] freelancer think this is ready
[19:54] now I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do
[19:57] next somehow I have to get rid of the
[20:00] grease how do you do that in here so
[20:03] we're going to turn this
[20:06] off drain excess
[20:10] fat oh no I don't know what to
[20:14] do what am I going to drain this
[20:18] with I don't have any idea I guess we're
[20:21] using paper
[20:26] towels hope I don't burn myself
[20:33] [Music]
[20:37] I mean is this an effective approach but
[20:40] there are people watching this who are
[20:42] laughing right
[20:43] now I don't know it does say excess fat
[20:47] it doesn't say all of
[20:49] it this could
[20:54] work this is not so bad
[20:59] bring the garbage over
[21:02] here this is an effective Wayne I live
[21:05] in an RV you don't dump stuff down the
[21:08] sink and you don't like you know like
[21:12] where am I going to where am I going to
[21:14] keep this grease and what would I do
[21:16] with
[21:17] it
[21:19] so it said to do this
[21:24] part that ises a lot of Grease why won't
[21:26] it come out
[21:32] I don't
[21:33] know I like gra I guess we're just going
[21:36] to eat the
[21:38] grease add taco seasoning and water
[21:41] according to Patrick package
[21:46] instructions
[21:49] where where'd my packet
[21:53] go I set it aside for this there it is
[22:00] okay you will need 3/4 cups of
[22:06] water
[22:08] okay why doesn't this
[22:13] open it's not opening
[22:17] there I'm stronger than I look people I
[22:22] am
[22:24] okay I love this I came up with this
[22:27] idea it's so beautiful isn't it
[22:29] I did that very proud of myself 3/4 cups
[22:33] do they make one yep they do how cool is
[22:37] that that way you don't have to Gess and
[22:39] be like a quarter less of a
[22:42] cup so you put this in
[22:45] here this just not easy to
[22:50] do okay
[22:55] [Music]
[23:01] can you stir it up I don't have anything
[23:04] to stir
[23:06] with like
[23:08] what can I use a
[23:14] whisk wait I bet I could use
[23:18] this okay why does it feel like I've
[23:21] never done this before I've I've surely
[23:24] done this at some point in my life
[23:28] don't feel like it's I mean it didn't
[23:31] say should the heat still be on
[23:34] like once
[23:38] cooked I feel like the heat should still
[23:40] be
[23:41] on let's just put it on medium
[23:44] low I mean how else is it going to get
[23:46] the juice in
[23:50] there so we're going to just mix this
[23:53] all up
[24:04] and maybe I should put it on like real
[24:08] low sort of like a crock pot setting and
[24:11] just let it get all of that juice in
[24:15] there while we do something
[24:22] else medium low we'll just stick with
[24:24] medium
[24:26] low all right
[24:29] next I'm supposed to chop an onion and a
[24:32] bell
[24:33] pepper and DIC some tomatoes so this is
[24:36] when this part's going to be hard for me
[24:39] um that probably sounds silly you
[24:42] understand it kind of is silly but that
[24:45] is definitely how I feel about this
[24:49] so I guess I'm going to lose access to
[24:51] my sink for a
[24:55] while it's sizzling in there I I wanted
[24:58] you to be on low what is going
[25:01] on
[25:04] Wow how am I supposed to deal with
[25:10] this oh well if you know
[25:13] what I don't think you need medium high
[25:17] to cook this stuff if it's consle of
[25:20] this
[25:25] temperature wow
[25:28] go just be on
[25:31] low all right
[25:33] so I actually have three different
[25:35] cutting boards they're so cute I will
[25:39] pull out the big one if I can get it
[25:42] out okay look at this I have a lid
[25:46] holder and I'm not using
[25:49] it
[25:52] [Music]
[25:54] okay onion
[25:58] bell pepper and
[26:02] tomato all
[26:06] right wait a
[26:08] minute but I have two different
[26:11] peppers why did you tell me you get two
[26:14] different colors and now you're seeing
[26:15] the choer one and I can't ask the
[26:17] questions because of the stupid
[26:19] tokens all right we'll just do the red
[26:22] one for now I no we're doing them both
[26:24] why wouldn't we do them both that
[26:25] doesn't make any sense
[26:28] all right we're just gonna do both these
[26:30] Peppers
[26:31] here use the big
[26:33] knife
[26:36] okay take the sticker
[26:42] off oh these are the things that are
[26:44] juicy with seeds in them I don't want to
[26:47] do
[26:48] that okay well let's just do this let's
[26:50] just do
[26:51] it oh this knife is amazing wow
[26:59] wow just put those
[27:02] aside all right I'll try to see if you
[27:05] can just bring you down here I
[27:07] guess how are we going to do
[27:11] this bringing you down bringing you
[27:15] down there we
[27:17] go look it's an injured one I didn't
[27:20] pick
[27:22] these wait a minute I I'm I'm thinking
[27:26] you probably don't want that what is
[27:28] that
[27:31] ew gross that is so
[27:35] gross
[27:38] okay oh
[27:43] no all
[27:46] right that's not so bad why can't you
[27:49] just stay on the
[27:51] thing I don't want to cut
[27:54] myself how are you supposed to do this
[28:01] wow this knife is awesome
[28:05] actually am I doing this right
[28:09] guys you know what I probably could have
[28:11] watched some videos or
[28:13] something why do that when you can just
[28:16] you know do this and just have fun with
[28:20] it all right this is an awful lot of
[28:23] peppers I don't even like Peppers
[28:26] but you know
[28:28] this part of
[28:30] Mexican and eggs I guess maybe some of
[28:34] these are for
[28:35] breakfast I mean CLA didn't exactly tell
[28:37] me why I'm doing
[28:39] it
[28:42] so these are cut up pretty well that is
[28:45] so much
[28:46] though
[28:49] wow wonder if I should store the green
[28:52] and red separately or together like I do
[28:56] not know the answer to that
[28:59] will you fit in here
[29:04] yes that's not so
[29:09] bad e there's seeds on me
[29:14] e we're putting the red one in
[29:17] there so go like
[29:21] this get rid of this disgusting pod
[29:24] looking thing God it makes me think of
[29:26] aliens what even is this are we sure
[29:29] this is really from our
[29:32] Earth
[29:36] okay I they just look like little
[29:39] membranes in there or something so
[29:45] gross
[29:47] okay I have a feeling this is for eggs
[29:49] and stuff
[29:51] too I wish this would stop cooking over
[29:54] here like stop I'm not ready to deal
[29:57] with you
[30:01] [Music]
[30:04] looks good though I sure do love Mexican
[30:07] um flavored beef just call it that
[30:11] forgot what the packet's called taco
[30:15] seasoning suck up all this juice make
[30:18] this nice and clean for
[30:23] me
[30:25] okay all right let's just get this
[30:28] finished up already so where did I leave
[30:30] off so um I've been a I've been a
[30:33] freelancer all of my life so um and that
[30:36] was hard honestly I mean it is hard to
[30:40] um support yourself that way because the
[30:42] work can come and go but then eventually
[30:45] I hooked up with the company and I
[30:47] worked with them for 10 years and I
[30:48] worked on a lot of projects I worked on
[30:50] pop star.com for many many many years
[30:54] and then I moved into the travel space
[30:55] with them and I worked on sites like
[30:59] hotel.net um
[31:01] asia.com um world.com usa.com like they
[31:05] just don't know all of them I just
[31:06] caught myself I knew that would happen
[31:09] Okay um and I did that for 10 years I'm
[31:13] just I just just feels really boring I
[31:15] don't really want to go into all the
[31:16] details so then after that I worked with
[31:18] another guy for 10 years and that was my
[31:21] last
[31:22] client and I'm not going to say what it
[31:25] is cuz I don't know if you would really
[31:27] want me to
[31:28] um you know we're still friends I'm
[31:30] still talking to him and hoping to get
[31:33] work with him eventually again and but
[31:35] basically I worked on a music streaming
[31:37] site and some other related type
[31:40] Services there we have green we have
[31:42] green and red
[31:44] peppers we're going to just put these
[31:47] into
[31:48] the we're going to just put them like
[31:51] this that's D now we can use these for
[31:54] stuff that's pretty
[31:56] cool all right we need to do something
[31:58] with this beef
[32:00] too I like that container I want to get
[32:02] more of those I only have
[32:05] three can my beef in there do you think
[32:08] probably not let's let's try this
[32:12] one all
[32:15] right how are you supposed to get this
[32:17] out of
[32:23] here oh wait it told me to let it cool
[32:26] down first oh
[32:33] well that's no big deal I don't think
[32:36] it's all going to fit in
[32:40] here I'm going to eat the rest of
[32:44] there oh
[32:47] man I'm not good at
[32:49] judging
[32:51] like distances and quantities and
[32:56] whatever
[33:00] I wonder if somebody could have known
[33:02] like by looking at it like that's two
[33:04] quarts or whatever and been like
[33:08] versus however much meat I did they
[33:11] would have known if it fit like you know
[33:14] math keep banging my head over here
[33:17] which is not fun should shut this so
[33:20] that don't
[33:22] happen I mean it basically almost fits
[33:24] so we're just going to put this aside
[33:26] for a little while
[33:29] and I might eat some of
[33:32] it I got to eat
[33:35] something practically
[33:38] fits that looks so wonderful all right
[33:42] wait there's
[33:45] more
[33:51] okay now we got to clean this
[33:59] well yeah cuz I have to make I have to
[34:02] make chicken in it I am not looking
[34:05] forward to that at
[34:08] all no I am not I do not I don't I don't
[34:13] touch chicken that's just I and then I'm
[34:16] going to have to cut it up like you
[34:19] freaking kidding
[34:22] me wow look how easy this is to clean
[34:24] this way should do that more often
[34:29] we are done with
[34:30] that okay so things are done I cut these
[34:34] up we going throw this
[34:36] away oh yeah we have to dice a
[34:42] tomato how am I supposed to get this
[34:47] clean I'm going to go through a lot of
[34:49] paper
[34:51] towels wow that actually
[34:54] worked I didn't expect that to work
[34:59] okay going to grab a
[35:05] [Music]
[35:07] tomato wonder why they I need like a a
[35:11] machine that can just Vice
[35:14] it I don't even like tomatoes all right
[35:17] but I want to see if I can maybe get
[35:19] into them my brother always like
[35:22] tomatoes he loved to put salt on them I
[35:25] don't know how to do this
[35:28] so
[35:30] [Music]
[35:31] just why don't I just feel like you're
[35:33] supposed to get rid of the sides you
[35:35] know the top and bottom what is
[35:38] that how deep does it
[35:41] go
[35:43] ooh better be
[35:48] careful okay that's cool so that just
[35:53] dicent
[35:57] how would you do
[36:02] that yeah we're getting to the icky
[36:06] part I don't like this part of
[36:08] tomatoes
[36:11] mm say why I don't like tomatoes like
[36:14] what is it's so
[36:20] gross I have no idea what I'm
[36:24] [Music]
[36:26] doing how do
[36:30] you I mean that looks pretty dice to
[36:37] me almost looks like an
[36:42] apple
[36:44] okay I can do
[36:47] this I'm going to cut
[36:51] myself
[36:53] [Music]
[36:55] okay well that's not exact
[36:58] L what what is
[37:09] happening all
[37:11] right that seems reasonable
[37:18] right
[37:21] okay why did you have to fall on the
[37:23] floor
[37:25] man let's try some put some salt on
[37:31] it I love salt by the way put salt on
[37:35] everything my whole
[37:39] life
[37:42] H oh my God that's actually good holy
[37:47] crap I have been missing out my whole
[37:50] life oh my
[37:54] God that is actually good
[37:59] I not expect
[38:11] that you can put these in eggs can't
[38:17] you well that did not that just look
[38:20] disgusting I I can't even deal I
[38:23] cannot
[38:26] uh-uh do
[38:32] want did to have a little bit more that
[38:34] was so sweet tasting and like
[38:37] wow and then adding the
[38:43] salt wow I could eat this
[38:55] [Music]
[38:59] D for
[39:02] malfunction that's going to take some
[39:06] practice definitely a denture
[39:08] malfunction
[39:20] okay- what just
[39:25] happened okay
[39:29] oh
[39:31] well couldn't eat it okay so now we need
[39:35] the lid for
[39:39] that okay
[39:41] lid that was kind of
[39:45] [Music]
[39:47] fun okay what's next my AI
[39:52] Overlord I don't need to shred cheese
[39:54] cuz I already have that
[39:57] wash and dry
[39:59] lettuce tear into smaller pieces if
[40:04] desired store in a container lined with
[40:07] paper towels to absorb
[40:09] moisture I have these I love these
[40:12] things um I don't really know how they
[40:15] work or even if they do um very small
[40:18] though I mean it is a big thing of
[40:21] lettuce I can't wash it I don't really
[40:23] have the water for that we're just going
[40:26] to get some lettuce side of this
[40:29] thing wait a minute why are we doing
[40:31] this what's the lettuce
[40:35] for we're not doing the lettuce yet I'm
[40:37] just going to leave that alone I have a
[40:39] feeling that's for burgers or something
[40:40] I don't put lettuce on my
[40:42] Burgers next up is the
[40:46] chicken cook chicken seasoned chicken
[40:50] breast with salt pepper and garlic
[40:52] powder cook in your electric skillet
[40:54] until internal temperature reaches 165
[40:59] oh my
[41:01] God yes this is the hard
[41:04] one um it didn't even tell me what
[41:07] temperature to use
[41:10] so oh man I don't know how to do this at
[41:14] all
[41:16] so um chicken's one thing I've avoided
[41:19] we're just going to put it
[41:23] on just medium high feels right
[41:27] let's get some gloves it says
[41:30] cloves so I have way more chicken than I
[41:33] want
[41:34] because um that's what Walmart gave me I
[41:37] couldn't find like a single chicken
[41:40] breast
[41:43] um
[41:46] yeah
[41:48] how why am I doing garlic powder I don't
[41:53] understand
[41:55] okay see way too many
[41:58] I was just going to tell CLA later like
[42:00] we have a lot of
[42:02] chicken and so we're going to have to
[42:04] make more of it I truly don't know what
[42:07] I'm doing I'm probably going to kill
[42:09] myself you know poison
[42:12] myself so oh this is so gross ew oh my
[42:19] God
[42:21] no ew ew just touching it his
[42:25] gross ew
[42:30] ew
[42:32] I'm not
[42:35] exaggerating but yeah let's just we're
[42:38] going to cook some chicken over
[42:40] here I don't know what to do about this
[42:43] stupid
[42:44] camera um that was not fun it has a
[42:48] weird texture to it underneath of it it
[42:50] was so gross it was so
[42:53] gross oh my God what are we going to do
[42:56] with these other ones
[42:59] Ziploc bags put them in the
[43:01] freezer good
[43:08] idea sometimes I surprise myself we're
[43:11] going to go through a lot of
[43:15] gloves I mean it just
[43:18] says seasoned chicken breast with salt
[43:22] pepper and garlic powder I don't think
[43:24] you know I should have thought it
[43:26] through and like when it was like you
[43:30] know making me cook actual
[43:32] things like I should have gotten better
[43:34] instructions from it cuz that's more of
[43:36] a
[43:37] summary and it will do that a I will
[43:40] summarize sometimes you got to just ask
[43:42] it to
[43:43] elaborate
[43:45] um yeah I don't want to touch this I
[43:49] really
[43:50] don't e ew
[43:53] ew e oh my God that just give me the
[43:58] creeps why does it feel like
[44:01] that oh that is
[44:06] gross oh my God I thought it would be
[44:08] like silky or it looks silky why does it
[44:11] feel like that oh my
[44:15] God ew
[44:20] ew
[44:23] no
[44:25] no I ain't cooking chicken ever again no
[44:28] [Music]
[44:31] way that's
[44:33] disgusting Jesus that's
[44:37] gross
[44:41] wow all
[44:44] right let's just try to do this salt
[44:47] pepper and garlic
[44:49] powder I should have some garlic
[44:54] powder yep
[44:59] okay truly disturbed by
[45:03] this I mean it doesn't even say how
[45:06] much ew it's got oh my God they look
[45:12] disgusting gross
[45:15] man how long does this take probably a
[45:18] long
[45:21] time I truly don't know what I'm
[45:25] doing oh don't have any pepper
[45:29] uh-oh all right I got to clean
[45:32] that cross contamination
[45:40] right
[45:43] okay this is how you clean in an
[45:48] RV I'm just saying I don't know that
[45:50] that's true how often do you I really
[45:52] need it right now all right we're going
[45:54] to have to switch to um chat D te then
[45:57] I'm going to just ask it got my tablet
[46:00] let's just ask chat
[46:02] DBT um cuz we really need to know how to
[46:05] do
[46:06] this so yeah it's on my
[46:10] tablet let's just ask
[46:13] it never use 40 because it's a piece of
[46:16] [ __ ] switch to the original
[46:19] four how
[46:21] do I cook
[46:25] boneless
[46:27] skinless chicken
[46:31] breast and an
[46:34] electric
[46:37] skillet
[46:40] go all right let's get an answer from
[46:42] this
[46:44] thing rinse it I didn't do
[46:51] that medium high I got that part right
[46:55] add a tablespoon of oil
[46:58] to the skillet to heat
[47:01] up the oil is shimmering place them on
[47:04] the skillet let them cook undisturbed
[47:06] for four to 5 minutes until the
[47:08] underside is golden and seared turn the
[47:11] chicken breast over and continue it's
[47:13] just like cooking a
[47:15] burger all
[47:17] right remove it's just like cooking a
[47:23] burger how many minutes do you think
[47:25] it's been right you we have to time this
[47:29] stuff how am I supposed to
[47:32] know did not say anything about using an
[47:40] oil also which one I have two olive oils
[47:43] I know there's one for cooking and one
[47:45] that's
[47:46] not I think I Ed
[47:49] the I think I use classic olive oil yeah
[47:53] it's great for
[47:55] cooking and why didn't it tell me
[47:58] this I don't know what I'm
[48:03] doing what does the oil
[48:10] do oh this is
[48:14] disturbing for
[48:16] real let try to eat some of this I mean
[48:19] I I guess I could
[48:21] like let's see here make a little taco
[48:25] or something
[48:30] um so I
[48:34] got where's my little corn tortillas
[48:38] at there they
[48:44] are do I have to cook
[48:47] these think I can get away with
[48:50] not I have no way to cook them heating
[48:54] instructions on a skillet
[48:57] oh you only have to warm them up it's no
[48:59] big
[49:01] deal
[49:03] well I could do that in the microwave
[49:06] really yeah let's do that I'm going to
[49:09] make me a couple
[49:10] little pretend tacos because I just got
[49:13] to get a little bit of this out and I do
[49:15] need to eat something
[49:17] today
[49:19] um so I'll just make a couple of these
[49:22] oh these are I love the little corn ones
[49:24] they're so cute
[49:26] get a little paper
[49:30] plate and we'll just microwave them for
[49:32] 30
[49:37] seconds I have salsa I could just I have
[49:40] an
[49:41] idea all right is it
[49:46] time I mean
[49:50] maybe wow they're so big though and
[49:53] thick like how can
[49:54] that cook at the same timeline that the
[49:58] burger was I don't understand
[50:00] that
[50:06] okay oh let me just check the time over
[50:09] here all right so at
[50:13] 7:09 I'll do the meat thermometer
[50:18] thing all right we're just going to make
[50:21] some little tacos over here
[50:27] we're just going
[50:28] to
[50:30] O 30 seconds might have been a bit
[50:33] much now need to get some silver
[50:43] wear
[50:46] man I this is just a simple meal I'm a
[50:49] simple
[50:51] guy we're just going to dump that in
[50:53] there
[50:58] we put some cheese on
[51:01] it okay
[51:04] now this will be able to be
[51:11] sealed
[51:13] um
[51:15] this
[51:17] yes
[51:22] awesome 709
[51:30] [Music]
[51:31] okay then we'll just put some cheese on
[51:34] these very
[51:41] simple lots of cheese they're like
[51:44] little tacos or like um you know taco
[51:47] salad kind of cuz they're going to you
[51:50] know it's going to break apart and and
[51:52] then we'll put this some sauce on
[51:58] I mean why
[52:00] not got some kind of special
[52:03] saua special medium
[52:07] heat
[52:10] uh-oh all
[52:13] right couldn't find a
[52:15] spoon well I guess I'll dirty a a
[52:18] silverware
[52:19] [Music]
[52:21] spoon
[52:23] okay I suppose it's worth it
[52:27] we'll just put this on
[52:30] there now I have a meal just like
[52:36] that okay going to need a normal Fork I
[52:47] think there we
[52:50] go see I feel like I need a normal plate
[52:53] too but let's just give this a try
[52:57] I mean they obviously need salt
[53:04] like all right let's give this a
[53:10] try see I knew this wouldn't work so
[53:12] well but it's
[53:16] okay oh my God that is so freaking good
[53:20] and hot oh my god wow
[53:30] o that is spicing holy crap oh my
[53:36] [Music]
[53:40] god wow that is not
[53:44] medium holy
[53:48] crap very good
[53:51] though I can eat
[53:54] this ew
[53:56] man I've been trying to kill that little
[53:58] thing for freaking since
[54:01] yesterday thought I had it already
[54:04] thought I had to killed
[54:07] it I'm try to mix this
[54:10] up holy crap is that
[54:14] [Music]
[54:20] hot not
[54:25] bad I could totally live off this for
[54:29] real that's
[54:38] [Music]
[54:43] F
[54:46] 70 these contacts are messing with me I
[54:49] think we're
[54:50] close
[54:54] okay it's got to
[54:58] [Music]
[55:06] 165 it's not even
[55:08] close
[55:16] man I knew it wouldn't be
[55:21] either all
[55:23] right that's okay
[55:26] totally
[55:29] fine what it
[55:32] cook while we eat these awesome
[55:38] tacos put sour cream on this
[55:51] [Music]
[55:58] you have
[56:02] to
[56:03] De oh okay I don't normally get them
[56:07] like this but I thought you know I live
[56:08] in an RV
[56:09] now maybe this is a better
[56:16] option
[56:20] cool put some sour cream on it you guys
[56:24] can
[56:25] watch I think how are we doing all
[56:30] right now it's kind of weird doesn't
[56:35] it works for
[56:39] me wonder how long it
[56:48] needs why is this where
[56:53] is oops there we go
[56:56] very random video I know I didn't really
[56:59] discuss my background as well as I
[57:00] wanted to but you get the G I spent most
[57:04] of my life on a
[57:06] computer doing all kinds of
[57:08] stuff so I just didn't really engaged
[57:12] with the world for a very very long
[57:20] time I haven't taken interest in the
[57:22] things my brother
[57:23] did you know keep really good at fixing
[57:27] things and cars and I just it wasn't
[57:37] mean
[57:40] [Music]
[57:44] h well this is taking a very long time
[57:47] way longer than chat GPT
[57:50] son h
[57:57] at least I can deck the temperature to
[57:58] know it's
[58:00] safe don't complain about
[58:04] that I'm ask him this is how people
[58:07] learn this is how I'm
[58:11] learning I'm also learning to eat with
[58:14] dentes that is a different thing I'm
[58:17] used to eating without my teeth now so
[58:19] this is
[58:23] hard actually kind of hard
[58:31] c
[58:36] r okay what
[58:49] next okay that's it other than preparing
[58:52] the pancake dry mix which didn't make a
[58:54] lot of sense to me like why would you PR
[58:56] heard that in
[58:57] advance so we're
[59:02] good I did the
[59:06] things this is not even
[59:12] close I'm so confused it's not even
[59:21] close y all can just trust it I let that
[59:23] cook until I got to 165
[59:26] have a good name
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9:23
Settling Into New Site After Relocation Day
Jul 8, 2024
18:02
Morning Assessment of RV Lifestyle Fit
Jul 10, 2024
3:34
Re-evaluating the Timeline for Judging RV Life
Jul 11, 2024
3:58
Applying Programming Frameworks to RV Life
Jul 11, 2024
3:51
Addressing Parasocial Comments and Van Life Misalignment
Jul 12, 2024
14:01
Assessing RV Living Constraints and Reassessing Everything
Jul 18, 2024
8:29
Naming Hypervigilance and Its Origin
Jul 18, 2024
PUBLIC
June 28, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED
Temp 0.30
Density 0.80
Energetic Quality
wry, running commentary — sustained low-grade momentum
Journey Phase
learning under live conditions
Directional Vector
toward physical-world competence
Narrative

The camera would not tilt down. That was the first negotiation of the evening — rswfire mounted on a fixed arm that refused the angle he needed, so the workspace kept sliding out of frame and he kept apologizing for it, promising the audience he would get better at this with time. He had a new electric skillet still carrying the smell of its box, a Walmart delivery that had brought him quantities he hadn't asked for, and a plan: cook a week's worth of food, and tell them, finally, about the nearly forty years he had spent inside a computer. He framed the two things as the same story. A life lived in a digital world since eighth grade is, he said, why the physical one is unnatural to him — why the drawer thing is a drawer thing, why he calls things things. Four months of documenting this in an RV, and he figured the viewers were probably watching and wondering how he was still alive.

The instruction set failed almost immediately. Claude's list said brown 1½ pounds of ground beef in your electric skillet, drain excess fat, and skipped everything a person would actually need to execute it — no temperature, no duration. He typed the question anyway, addressed to his AI Overlord, and got the rate limit instead. Two hours. He explained tokens to the audience while pulling on gloves — GPU farms, finite bandwidth, everyone drawing on the same resource pool at once, the fact that he was, in his phrasing, in timeout. Then he set the skillet to medium high because he didn't know any better, and started at the beginning.

Arkansas. His father's business got computers and he fell in love with them and broke them almost daily — that's how you learn, by the way — and the first thing he built was a set of batch command-line tools distributed on bulletin board systems. GW-BASIC, then Turbo Pascal. The band teacher who saw him in the principal's office and put a tuba in his hands and then gave him a room and a free hour every day, and the program he wrote for her, Name My Note, later rewritten with grade tracking and an interface. The Monopoly clone that got him threatened with a lawsuit. He corrected himself as he went — he'd always said eight, but the grade math said eighth grade, thirteen or fourteen, and he flagged the discrepancy on camera rather than letting it stand. Meanwhile something in the RV made a noise like a fuse blowing, twice, and he asked the audience to tell him what it was, told Bailey they were fine, said he knew he sounded anxious and that he wasn't, he was being dramatic.

The beef burned in the corners. He brought the heat down to medium low, then lower, and named the failure as method: this is how you learn, just like how I learned to program, I broke stuff all the time. The grease was a harder problem, because an RV doesn't let you pour anything down a sink, and there was nowhere to put it. He blotted it with paper towels, acknowledged that people were probably laughing, and pointed out that the instruction said excess fat, not all of it. Somewhere in there he built the first content management system — before WordPress, open source, free for everybody, called dotWizard Matrix Server, worked on in his free time until he got bored and moved on, because that's the kind of person he is. The Comcast database in Microsoft Access, and the call from Chicago from a man who had an unlicensed copy and needed help because his people couldn't hack into it, which became years of work. Guru.com, where he was the only individual and the only American in the top ten, the other nine being staffed companies. Ten years on popstar.com and the travel sites. Ten more with one client, a music streaming platform, still a friend, still someone he hopes to work with again.

The peppers came in two colors and he couldn't ask why, so he cut both — why wouldn't we do them both, that doesn't make any sense. The seed pods disgusted him; he said they made him think of aliens, asked whether they were really from this Earth. The knife impressed him repeatedly. He tried to bring the camera down and couldn't. He wondered whether green and red should be stored separately and had no way to find out. Then a tomato, which he doesn't like, sides trimmed off because it felt like the right move, diced into something that almost looked like an apple. He remembered that his brother used to salt them. He salted a piece and ate it and stopped — oh my God, that's actually good, I have been missing out my whole life — and ate another, and then a denture malfunction ended that particular experiment, and he noted it and moved on.

Chicken was the one he'd been dreading. He said so before touching it. Gloved, he got as far as contact and recoiled — the texture underneath, the wrongness of it looking silky and not feeling silky, a sustained run of ew that he insisted was not exaggeration. The extras went into Ziploc bags for the freezer, which pleased him. The instructions were a summary again, no temperature, no time, and he named the lesson clearly: he should have asked it to elaborate. With Claude still locked out he moved to the tablet and ChatGPT, switching off 4o on principle, and got the steps he needed — rinse it, which he hadn't; oil until it shimmers, which nobody had mentioned; four to five minutes undisturbed; it's just like cooking a burger. He asked what the oil even does.

While the chicken ran long he built two small corn tortillas into pretend tacos with the taco-seasoned beef, cheese, salsa labeled medium that was not medium, and sour cream from a squeeze bottle he'd bought because he lives in an RV now and maybe that's the better option. He said he could live off this. He kept checking the meat thermometer against the clock — 7:09, then later, then later still — and it was not even close, and he was confused, and he said it was fine, he'd let it cook until 165. The pancake dry mix he skipped, because prepping it in advance made no sense to him. He told the audience he hadn't covered his background as well as he'd wanted to, but that they got the gist: most of his life on a computer, doing all kinds of stuff, not engaged with the world for a very long time. He hadn't taken interest in what his brother took interest in, fixing things and cars. He was learning now. He was also learning to eat with dentures, which was, he noted, a different thing, and actually kind of hard.

Tags

meal prep RV living programming history AI-assisted cooking self-taught technologist freelance career physical skill acquisition

Summary

rswfire films a meal prep session in the RV while narrating his history as a programmer, noting he has never covered that history on camera before. He works from a task list generated by Claude, hits his token limit early, and proceeds without being able to ask follow-up questions.

The cooking sequence runs through: browning 1.5 lbs of ground beef in a new Drew Barrymore electric skillet, draining grease with paper towels because RV plumbing rules out the sink, adding taco seasoning and water, chopping red and green bell peppers, dicing a tomato, setting lettuce aside, and cooking boneless skinless chicken breast to 165°F. He switches to ChatGPT on his tablet for chicken instructions after the Claude limit, and stops mid-process to eat corn tortilla tacos with beef, cheese, salsa, and sour cream.

The programming account, delivered in parallel, covers: starting on his father's computers in 8th grade in Arkansas, GW-BASIC and Turbo Pascal, batch tools distributed on bulletin board systems, a note-teaching program written for his band teacher, a Monopoly clone that drew a legal threat, an early open-source content management system called Dot Wizard Matrix Server, database work for Comcast and Tech Op Suite, top-10 ranking on guru.com as the only individual and only American, ten years on travel and entertainment sites including popstar.com, and ten years on music streaming with a final client.

He states he has spent nearly 40 years in a digital world and is now learning physical-world tasks directly, describing breakage as his learning method. He also notes adjusting to eating with dentures.

Environment

Interior of an RV kitchen — a compact galley with a single small sink, limited counter space, a plug-in electric skillet, cutting boards, gloves, and stacked storage containers. rswfire films himself on a fixed-angle camera mount that will not tilt downward, so framing is repeatedly negotiated against the workspace.

The digital environment is co-present: a tablet running Claude (rate-limited mid-session, described as being "in timeout" for two hours) and a fallback to ChatGPT for cooking instructions. Groceries arrived via a Walmart delivery order with quantities that did not match what was requested. Bailey is present in the space. Directed at a viewing audience throughout.

Substrate

rswfire holds two parallel tracks in one transmission: a batch food-prep sequence executed with no prior procedural knowledge, and an autobiographical recounting of nearly forty years of programming work. The architecture being surfaced is the asymmetry between deep fluency in one domain and zero installed procedure in another — he states directly that a life spent in a digital world is why physical-world tasks are unnatural to him, and frames error as the learning method he already knows from code ("I broke stuff all the times... you learn from that"). The ontological position is instructional dependence made visible: AI as procedural authority ("AI Overlord"), the instruction set as incomplete, and the gap between summary and executable steps closed by improvisation on camera.

Actions

Performed

  • •unboxes and washes new electric skillet
  • •queries Claude for beef cooking temperature; hits token limit
  • •explains GPU/token rate limiting to viewers
  • •browns 1.5 lb ground beef
  • •adjusts skillet heat repeatedly after burning
  • •blots grease with paper towels instead of draining
  • •adds taco seasoning and 3/4 cup water
  • •chops red and green bell peppers
  • •dices a tomato and tastes it salted
  • •portions peppers and beef into storage containers
  • •cleans skillet between proteins
  • •bags excess chicken for the freezer
  • •seasons chicken breast with salt and garlic powder (no pepper on hand)
  • •switches to ChatGPT for chicken instructions
  • •adds olive oil to skillet
  • •microwaves corn tortillas and assembles tacos
  • •checks chicken internal temperature with meat thermometer
  • •narrates programming history throughout
  • •notes denture malfunction while eating
  • •defers lettuce prep and pancake dry mix

Referenced

  • •started programming in 8th grade in Arkansas after his dad's business got computers
  • •broke his father's computer near-daily while learning
  • •wrote batch/command-line tools and distributed them on bulletin board systems
  • •learned GW-BASIC, then Turbo Pascal
  • •played tuba from 8th grade with a dedicated free hour
  • •built 'Name My Note' for his band teacher, later rewritten with grading and tracking
  • •built a Monopoly clone, distributed it, was threatened with suit and took it down
  • •was in Boy Scouts fourth through seventh grade
  • •did consulting and website work from around age 18
  • •created an early content management system (dotWizard Matrix Server), released open source
  • •built a Microsoft Access scheduling database for a Comcast office
  • •was contacted by a Chicago Comcast employee with an unlicensed copy
  • •wrote TechOp Suite for telecommunications companies
  • •ranked in the top 10 on guru.com as the only individual and only American
  • •worked ten years on popstar.com and travel sites (hotels.net, asia.com, world.com, usa.com)
  • •worked ten years with a final client on a music streaming site
  • •moved out of his house, bought the RV, moved in
  • •has been documenting the transition for four months
  • •ordered groceries through Walmart

Planned

  • •cook chicken to 165°F internal temperature
  • •make burgers on the grill with the remaining beef
  • •prepare lettuce later, likely for burgers
  • •prepare pancake dry mix
  • •cook additional chicken from the surplus
  • •ask Claude for more elaborated instructions next time
  • •get more storage containers
  • •improve camera angles with practice
  • •possibly work with his former client again

Entities

beings
rswfire — Narrator; cooks batch meals while recounting his programming history
Bailey — Present in the RV; addressed when an unexplained noise occurs
his brother — Referenced as liking salted tomatoes and being good at fixing things and cars
his father — Business owner whose computers he learned on and broke daily
his band teacher — Recruited him to tuba and received the Name My Note program
places
Arkansas — Where he lived in 8th grade when he began programming
RV — Full-time residence; constrains sink use, water, grease disposal, and counter space
systems
Claude — AI generating the meal-prep task list; referred to as 'AI Overlord'; rate-limited mid-session
ChatGPT — Fallback AI consulted for chicken cooking instructions; he specifies using the original 4 model over 4o
Walmart — Grocery delivery source; delivered more beef and chicken than ordered
GW-BASIC — First programming language learned
Turbo Pascal — Second language; used to rewrite Name My Note
Borland — Maker of Turbo Pascal; noted as still existing but pivoted away from languages
bulletin board systems — Distribution channel for his earliest tools and games
dotWizard Matrix Server — Content management system he created and released open source, described as a WordPress precursor
WordPress — Reference point for the CMS category he says he built before it existed
Comcast — Client for an Access-based scheduling database; unlicensed copy surfaced in Chicago
hsdnetwork.com — High-speed-data related project he recalls partially
guru.com — Freelance bidding platform; he ranked top 10 as the only individual and only American
popstar.com — Site worked on for many years during a ten-year client relationship
hotels.net / asia.com / world.com / usa.com — Travel-space sites from the same ten-year engagement
Boy Scouts — Fourth through seventh grade activity cited as part of a normal childhood
media
Name My Note — Music-education program built for his band teacher, later expanded with grading and tracking
Monopoly — Computer version he built and distributed on BBSes; taken down after legal threat
TechOp Suite — Broader telecommunications program he authored
tuba — Instrument played two hours daily in 8th grade; connected to the Name My Note commission
Dreo/Drewberry electric skillet — New appliance; he critiques its adjustable-quart and steam features as pointless

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

fire
threshold
tool
blade
container
grid
rate limit
raw flesh
measurement
improvisation

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

domain-asymmetric competence (four decades of fluency in code, no installed procedure for food)
instructional dependence (AI as procedural authority, then rate-limited out, then substituted)
transitional embedding (four months into physical-world residence after leaving a house)
learning-by-failure as stated method (burning, over-heating, blotting grease — explicitly mapped to how he learned to program)
self-documenting (task performed on camera for an audience, narration and execution simultaneous)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

somatic (glove use, texture aversion to raw chicken, denture adaptation while eating, tasting salted tomato for the first time)
technical (forty-year programming history, GPU/token explanation, CMS and database architecture recall)
infrastructural (RV water, sink, counter, power, grease disposal constraints governing every step)
cognitive (running dual-track narration — procedure execution and chronological memory retrieval, with self-correction on dates)
economic (freelance history, self-employment, client relationships, hope of future work)
documentary (camera framing, direct address, four-month recording practice)
relational (Bailey in the space, brother and father referenced, band teacher and long-term client)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

I don't know what I'm doing
that's how you learn
tokens / rate limit / AI Overlord
digital world vs. physical world
freelancer / self-employed my whole life
gross / ew (raw protein texture)
I call things things
Narrative

The camera would not tilt down. That was the first negotiation of the evening — rswfire mounted on a fixed arm that refused the angle he needed, so the workspace kept sliding out of frame and he kept apologizing for it, promising the audience he would get better at this with time. He had a new electric skillet still carrying the smell of its box, a Walmart delivery that had brought him quantities he hadn't asked for, and a plan: cook a week's worth of food, and tell them, finally, about the nearly forty years he had spent inside a computer. He framed the two things as the same story. A life lived in a digital world since eighth grade is, he said, why the physical one is unnatural to him — why the drawer thing is a drawer thing, why he calls things things. Four months of documenting this in an RV, and he figured the viewers were probably watching and wondering how he was still alive.

The instruction set failed almost immediately. Claude's list said brown 1½ pounds of ground beef in your electric skillet, drain excess fat, and skipped everything a person would actually need to execute it — no temperature, no duration. He typed the question anyway, addressed to his AI Overlord, and got the rate limit instead. Two hours. He explained tokens to the audience while pulling on gloves — GPU farms, finite bandwidth, everyone drawing on the same resource pool at once, the fact that he was, in his phrasing, in timeout. Then he set the skillet to medium high because he didn't know any better, and started at the beginning.

Arkansas. His father's business got computers and he fell in love with them and broke them almost daily — that's how you learn, by the way — and the first thing he built was a set of batch command-line tools distributed on bulletin board systems. GW-BASIC, then Turbo Pascal. The band teacher who saw him in the principal's office and put a tuba in his hands and then gave him a room and a free hour every day, and the program he wrote for her, Name My Note, later rewritten with grade tracking and an interface. The Monopoly clone that got him threatened with a lawsuit. He corrected himself as he went — he'd always said eight, but the grade math said eighth grade, thirteen or fourteen, and he flagged the discrepancy on camera rather than letting it stand. Meanwhile something in the RV made a noise like a fuse blowing, twice, and he asked the audience to tell him what it was, told Bailey they were fine, said he knew he sounded anxious and that he wasn't, he was being dramatic.

The beef burned in the corners. He brought the heat down to medium low, then lower, and named the failure as method: this is how you learn, just like how I learned to program, I broke stuff all the time. The grease was a harder problem, because an RV doesn't let you pour anything down a sink, and there was nowhere to put it. He blotted it with paper towels, acknowledged that people were probably laughing, and pointed out that the instruction said excess fat, not all of it. Somewhere in there he built the first content management system — before WordPress, open source, free for everybody, called dotWizard Matrix Server, worked on in his free time until he got bored and moved on, because that's the kind of person he is. The Comcast database in Microsoft Access, and the call from Chicago from a man who had an unlicensed copy and needed help because his people couldn't hack into it, which became years of work. Guru.com, where he was the only individual and the only American in the top ten, the other nine being staffed companies. Ten years on popstar.com and the travel sites. Ten more with one client, a music streaming platform, still a friend, still someone he hopes to work with again.

The peppers came in two colors and he couldn't ask why, so he cut both — why wouldn't we do them both, that doesn't make any sense. The seed pods disgusted him; he said they made him think of aliens, asked whether they were really from this Earth. The knife impressed him repeatedly. He tried to bring the camera down and couldn't. He wondered whether green and red should be stored separately and had no way to find out. Then a tomato, which he doesn't like, sides trimmed off because it felt like the right move, diced into something that almost looked like an apple. He remembered that his brother used to salt them. He salted a piece and ate it and stopped — oh my God, that's actually good, I have been missing out my whole life — and ate another, and then a denture malfunction ended that particular experiment, and he noted it and moved on.

Chicken was the one he'd been dreading. He said so before touching it. Gloved, he got as far as contact and recoiled — the texture underneath, the wrongness of it looking silky and not feeling silky, a sustained run of ew that he insisted was not exaggeration. The extras went into Ziploc bags for the freezer, which pleased him. The instructions were a summary again, no temperature, no time, and he named the lesson clearly: he should have asked it to elaborate. With Claude still locked out he moved to the tablet and ChatGPT, switching off 4o on principle, and got the steps he needed — rinse it, which he hadn't; oil until it shimmers, which nobody had mentioned; four to five minutes undisturbed; it's just like cooking a burger. He asked what the oil even does.

While the chicken ran long he built two small corn tortillas into pretend tacos with the taco-seasoned beef, cheese, salsa labeled medium that was not medium, and sour cream from a squeeze bottle he'd bought because he lives in an RV now and maybe that's the better option. He said he could live off this. He kept checking the meat thermometer against the clock — 7:09, then later, then later still — and it was not even close, and he was confused, and he said it was fine, he'd let it cook until 165. The pancake dry mix he skipped, because prepping it in advance made no sense to him. He told the audience he hadn't covered his background as well as he'd wanted to, but that they got the gist: most of his life on a computer, doing all kinds of stuff, not engaged with the world for a very long time. He hadn't taken interest in what his brother took interest in, fixing things and cars. He was learning now. He was also learning to eat with dentures, which was, he noted, a different thing, and actually kind of hard.

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