behind the scenes
behind the scenes ideas
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Data Centers in the Community
As I have been playing with AI to generate imagery, I’ve been listening to all the reporting online about the flood of data centers being planned and built all over the US and the world. There has been talk of data centers being built in far off places as well as in built up places.…
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Ego Boosting SPAM
I’m not really writing any of these entries expecting to get commentary. I don’t think I have any commentary displayed, but that doesn’t stop people from submitting them. Most are the obvious SPAM that anyone who has had a public-facing website with feedback/commentary functionality have seen: ads for services and websites, often in foreign languages,…
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Ransom Letters
One of my earlier web experiments was to make an “image font” of the letters used in stereotypical ransom letters (see Ransom Letters). These were letters of the alphabet cut out from magazines. I still remember the old card table I had that was covered with these letters I cut out of old Wired magazines.…
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
The previous version of this site was lost due to some technical glitches that occur over time (imagine glaciers destroying data centers), but as I rebuild it with all the previous ideas, I now have the power of AI to help me illustrate things which were just words before. It’s been fun to experiment with…
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The Age of Things
You may or may not have noticed that the dates on these posts seem a little off. At least in the sense that a blog started in 2007 has posts from years before that. Well, I sometimes like to think I’ve been blogging in my head for decades now, but short of that grand delusion…
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What is This Thing?
Okay, it’s only taken me 4 years to get to this first entry, but I guess that’s better than nothing. Yes, I came up with the idea 4 years ago to have a site to showcase all of the extra ideas I came up with that I had little enthusiasm, or little energy to do…