misc.
ideas that don’t fit into any of the categories I’ve come up with. don’t box my ideas in!
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Carrot Mob
No, not Carrot Top. This was a line in a notebook from 2010 that just says: Carrot mob Not sure where that came from, but figured I’d see what Gemini would do with it: Create a image of a “carrot mob” Not what I was thinking, but I didn’t give it any parameters, so… Okay,…
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Broke Boarding
I have never skateboarded in my life. So, imagine my surprise finding the following in an old notebook: Broke Boarding – skating on a half-broken board – whatever it takes to get skateboarding. I’m sure it was more the alliteration which lodged that idea into my head and forced my hand to capture it on…
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AI, Parody, and Acceptability
Or a discussion of AI guardrails. Listening to yet another news piece on Jeffrey Epstein, I realized that part of my brain has been filled up – against my will – by someone I wish was not in there. I didn’t have a say in the matter. And I probably have no legal right to…
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Waymo-a-go-go
There are articles in the press about how Waymo drivers are so lazy that gig workers are getting paid up to $24 to close the door so that the Waymo can go. The other day I was down by the Embarcadero in San Francisco and passed a Waymo sitting with it’s doors unlocked (you can…
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In the Public Domain, Part 1
Mindful of the use of copyrighted materials in AI, I decided to do some experiments in Gemini using recognizable characters out of copyright. Make a list of 15 recognizable characters which are now out in the public domain. Include the date that they went into the public domain. It returned the following list: Character Entry…
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Punk Entomology
While in college (1992-1996), I took a science class where our final project was a bug collection. We had to find, capture, and kill specimens of various types of bugs then mount them on pins. This macabre assignment dovetailed with the spikey, bleached hairstyle I had at that time. I had visions of creating a…
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No Bell For You!
In the process of updating this website, I reviewed all my old ideas and one struck a timely nerve (The Onion Article That Wasn’t) as it featured unlikely recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time I wrote it, it was considered something only The Onion would write an article about, but today, I’m…
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Dow Jones Industrial Soundwave
turn the stock performance graph into a soundwave that someone can listen to…for accessibility for the blind… also to allow people to tell a good stock by it’s sound… “that sounds like a winner!”
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Documemory
Re-enactments/Re-countings of things you remember happening (whether or not they actually happened). In effect, it would be the solidification of a possible life experience through the intentional recreation of supposed memories of said events. Possible tag lines: “An Alternative to History” or “How (I Think) Things Were”.
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To Do, More Done
There are a lot of sites that have tackled the “to do” list niche. Not sure if any of them is going into territories such as: Taking these factors into consideration could allow for Gantt chart style output that helps see when to do items can actually be done.