James Holzhauer’s reign as Jeopardy champion has ended – the New York Times has the details! I only saw a bit of the first part, I would say he was ready to wrap it up…

Rendering a static site in Hugo

I am working on a project using the Hugo static site generator with the Book theme. When I looked at this command page, it looked like typing the word “hugo” at the base directory of my site would render the site to the public folder. However, when I did that, no index.html file was generated – grr! After some more searching, I figured out that if you are using a theme (like I am), the theme needs to be specified (“hugo -t book”). Once I added that flag, it worked! Oh, the joy….

On taking responsibility

When someone says “I take responsibility…”, what usually happens is that they take some action (they apologize for something, they amends, they do what they said they were going to do).

Taking responsibility is taking action.

I observed several examples of this over the past week. I attended a homeowner’s association meeting with 50-60 homeowners present. One of the agenda items was about taking care of dog poop in the neighborhood. It came out that the HOA board had decided to spend money to put a poop bag dispenser near the HOA office. However, the “year supply” of bags ran out in 5 months, and the board did not want to spend any more money on bags, so they removed the dispenser. In the meeting, there was not any further action suggested that anyone wanted to take. The real problem (unstated) was that people who have dogs that walk through the neighborhood are not picking up after their dogs (not taking responsibility).

I then thought of several things in my life that I would like to see happen (do more writing, lose weight, get in better shape). However, I have not taken any action. By my statement above, I am not taking responsibility for making those things happen.

I am taking this as an opportunity to take stock of my own responsibilities – a good action for all of us.

At the Scripps Spelling Bee, an eight-way tie – how could it be? My brother and I participated in the program in junior high, my brother got to the regional match, but missed “prerogative”. Looks like the standard has risen!