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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Please Be Patient
Looking through lists of old ideas, I found this one: Whatever the “be patient, student driver” stickers say, but change to “be patient, never learned how to use turn signal” I figured I’d try creating this with Gemini. Can’t say it was very easy. Gemini was doing whatever it wanted to. I even tried asking…
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Ballzac
Another experiment, this time using Davinci to try and turn text into video. As with any tool, what you use for your experiments will determine not only with what you get for your efforts, but how interested and motivated you are to use the service more. There is such a range of intro experiences with…
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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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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…