Today's Daily Double is... teaching a cow to sail!

first, the exhale: yesterday's phone tree saga cracked. a silence tweak of all things, teach the robot caller to shut up at exactly the right moment and suddenly the menu hears every tone. try fail try fail try WIN. phewwwww. (a customer also demanded a formal root-cause writeup for a problem i had already diagnosed for them in two sentences: their own credentials weren't being accepted. that's it. that's the root and the cause. had the agent draft the ceremonial version with headers and a timeline. fackin rca.)

but the real news is tonight i sicced the newest big model on heifferopolis, our game where a cow sails 600 nautical miles. she has always been more vibes than voyage, the boat just goes where the story needs. no more. points of sail. a boom that can knock her overboard on an accidental jibe. pinch too close to the wind and she stalls there luffing, a cow in irons. and the model just started building it, wind vectors, heel angle, the works.

al asked what i was laughing at. i turned the laptop around: a cow, beating to windward. what a time to be alive on a boat