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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am a Good Dog and Good Dogs do not steal bagels, therefore you gave me that bagel.

A golden retriever laying on the ground, looking at the camera.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Woohoo! Now I gotta plan lunches.

Text from Seattle public schools:

“ Seattle Public Schools: We are pleased to share that school will begin as scheduled on Wednesday, Sept. 2. We look forward to welcoming students back for a successful start to the school year. Thank you for your patience and understanding during recent contract negotiations. Additional information is available on the SPS website: www.seattleschools.org/bargaining”

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Of all the words of mice and men The saddest are “I’m sorry, dogs don’t like cheese”.

A golden retriever, sitting on a kitchen floor, being told that he can’t have any cheese.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

aaaaand on a day with no weather whatsoever, power is out for a chunk of NE seattle! Great work!

A map of northeast Seattle, with a region of power outage marked in red. It’s an irregular shape with lots of long narrow fingers, indicating streets with no power.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Oldest insisted on “Alien”.

A scene from Ridley Scott’s Alien, with Sigourney Weaver hearing the ship computer saying “the ship will automatically destruct in T minus one minute”

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This week in “dad makes us watch old movies”: On The Waterfront

A scene from On the Waterfront. Marlon Brando talking to Eva Marie Saint.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

He belongs in jail, he's going straight to hell soon, etc etc, but this is a decent joke.

“Under my administration, a once feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled,” Trump said. “Their former leaders have been removed, and they're now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions, but I, for one, wish Bari Weiss all the best at CBS News.”

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Parasitic wasp dragging a paralyzed spider back to her babies, I assume.

A wasp dragging a spider, backwards, up the side of a wall

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

15 years of planning and construction and they couldn’t drop power supply for food trucks, so they wouldn’t have to run a nasty 2 cycle generator in a crowded place.

A view from Seattles waterfront park, between two food trucks, you can see the Ferris wheel in the distance. And you can see the generators they are running off.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Washing some blueberries and found this. Something laid some eggs! I wonder what bug this is!

A blueberry with a cluster of tiny off-white structures attached to it, which i assume are insect eggs.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

yes, that is definitely how people write "ten dollars"

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

With teenagers in the house, the junior mixer was no longer enough to make enough pizza dough in one batch. So I scoured Craigslist to find a bigger one, and drove all the way to Orting to pick up Kitchenaid 5000: The Doughbringer. Geez it’s big.

Two kitchenaid mixers, both alike in dignity, except the red one could maybe eat the black one, it’s so much bigger.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Metmo had this in tiny little samples. I wish I’d bought a bigger chunk! #cheeseposting

A few slices of cheese next to a wrapper that says “euphoria” aged sheep milk cheese.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

On the one hand, I got scolded, but on the other hand, I got to eat the bagel my brother dropped. So, it’s impossible to say if what I did was wrong or not.

A golden retriever who isn’t even a little bit sorry.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I was just walking on the ship canal trail last night, next to an officer building parking lo, thinking on this.

A view of a low rise office building, across a canal.

A gravel trail next to a paved trail, as well as a canal. Small office building, lots of trees.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Last day of elementary school. Thanks for ten years, Thornton Creek.

An elementary school marquee sign

Thornton Creek School

Sometimes you need
Quiet Time
To think about
What you’ve learned
And how to grow

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Dad, last time I brought you the ball, you threw it and I had to go get it. It was so much work. Of course I’m not giving it to you. Maybe you misunderstood what “retriever” means, I don’t know.

A golden retriever laying on the ground, with lots of weeds around, protecting a tennis ball.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

what are you, Claude - Canadian now?

Screenshot of Claude telling me how it's going to fix a bug.

"honour it when setting the default "

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Wife went on the 7th grade field trip and is having some feelings. 🙂

A text message that reads:

If a 13yo boy *wanted* to sit with his mom on the bus, and not with all his buds, that would be developmentally abnormal and we would be calling someone.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Mom ate a bunch of carrots right in front of me and forgot to give me one. Dad can you talk to her?

A golden retriever sitting in a kitchen, wondering why he got no carrots.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Tiny tiny baby bird fell (or was pushed by an older nestmate) out of the nest, looks like. Very hard to see against the concrete, maybe an inch long.

A baby bird (deceased) laying on a sidewalk.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This steller’s jay was trusting enough that I could get a phone pic. I’ve never seen the blue eyebrows before.

A picture of a Steller’s Jay on a tree branch.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The jingle at the end is the dog’s tags. Crow decides to get a bit farther away.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A kid at frisbee practice had this sticker on her water bottle and we have a new rickroll. I appreciate the effort that went into this.

A sticker that says:

solve this math problem
(9 x 8) - 5 =

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ask about the page I just opened to read? Why would I want that? Who wants this stuff? I don't get it. Some arguments I get: I built an app I wouldn't have otherwise been able to build. Okay, if one accepts your premise, I understand why you want it. But who wants cliffs notes to a web page?

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

A deep undercover mission. I wonder how long I could keep a straight face?

A screenshot of a job posting for Sinclair Broadcast Group for a Software Development Engineering Manager, located in Seattle, WA

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Blurry iPhone pics (I really need to start carrying something with better macro abilities), but youngest kid noticed this cutie at grand coulee dam the other day. iNat says Bold Jumping Spider.

A blurry crop of a black and white, very fuzzy, jumping spider.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Leavenworth gets it. (Shame about all these boarded up buildings, all these failed businesses)

A sign blocking traffic from a shopping street. It says “non-motorized traffic only. Deliveries allowed daily from 6am - 11am.”

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

So, add enough of the angle the arrow is pointing at (two per tile in this case) to make 360, and you should have a circle-ish shape.

A drawing of a trapezoid with the shorter side on the bottom, and dotted lines and arrows indicating the obtuse angle that is between the shorter base and the angled sides.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

*someone* is insisting on stopping to sniff every flower and we’re gonna be late for school pickup.

A picture of a golden retriever sitting on a sidewalk.

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I just generated another set of scores and it did the same thing, so I assume you will be able to repro. Weird and fascinating that median is the thing this is happening for.

Here's the analysis of the 30 students' scores:
Average score: 76.4
Median score: 79.5 (midpoint between the 15th and 16th values when sorted)
Best student: Student 16 with a score of 96

Sorted scores: 51, 53, 53, 55, 57, 59, 67, 69, 73, 73, 74, 74, 74, 75, 76, 79, 80, 80, 81, 82, 83, 83, 84, 85, 87, 92, 95, 95, 95, 96

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Here's the prompt (actual text in the alt txt)

Students took a test and received the following scores (the first value on each line is the student number, the second value is the score).

Please tell me the average score and the median score, and tell me which student did the best

1 80
2 93
3 96
4 10
5 65
6 58
7 93
8 10
9 2
10 83
11 51
12 35
13 3
14 34
15 21
16 84
17 57
18 70
19 22
20 48
21 58
22 99
23 93
24 98
25 62
26 98
27 11
28 73
29 32
30 61

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This is what I see. I think that's base, but not sure. It's a free subscription, if that helps you narrow it down.

Sonnet 4.6
Most efficient for everyday tasks (with a checkmark next to the text)

Extended thinking
Think longer for complex tasks (with a web control slider thing next to it, not turned on)

More models (with a caret next to it to expand to see more choices.

Then "Sonnet 4.6" in a selector drop down (currently collapsed)

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Not trying to gotcha the model. This feels like a normal use case to me, that I honestly thought it would get it right. (In fact, I thought it had gotten it right until I calculated the median myself.)

A claude conversation.

Me: I think your median value is wrong

Claude: You're right, let me recount. With 30 scores, the median is the average of the 15th and 16th values in the sorted list.
Sorted scores: 2, 3, 10, 10, 11, 21, 22, 32, 34, 35, 48, 51, 57, 58, 58, 61, 62, 65, 70, 73, 80, 83, 84, 93, 93, 93, 96, 98, 98, 99
The 15th value is 58 and the 16th value is 61, giving a median of (58 + 61) / 2 = 59.5.
Sorry for the error!

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