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Prompties
While working on creating images for this website, I thought about asking the AI (in this case Google’s Gemini) to create a selfie image. These are what it created: As it stated quite clearly at the start of this effort “Since I am an AI and don’t have a physical body, I can’t actually take a selfie…
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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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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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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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Cloud Backup…
I’m standing on the train platform where yet another cloud backup for your photos is being promoted. All great…but they just never seem to work as they claim. So I’ve tried google photos and iCloud backup for photos on my iPhone. It’s a nice thing to have extra space, to have the ability to back…
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My Order Code
With the prevelance of POS systems tied to the internet and available to anyone with a smartphone, why are we still ordering our meals like Neanderthals? There’s always been an issue of with near infinite options, one has to repeat a long list of preferences to match the long list of options. No mayo, GF…
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The Reverse Umbrella
On a trip to a very sunny and hot location, I cleared my sweaty face in order to see a person shading themselves from the sun with an umbrella. A regular umbrella. Shade helps. But as anyone who goes to Disney World in the heat of… well, anytime… would see is squirt bottles paired with…
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Advanced Straw Technology
This one is an idea from the past, but it still hasn’t come to life yet. I’m sure a start-up named Sip® is right around the corner and will bring this into reality. Maybe with adverts or something, but alas, here’s the raw idea. Ever been to a movie? Ever seen how large the soda…
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Driving Directions HOV
So I took a roadtrip with my daughter from SF to Disneyland. We went down the coast on US101. When I hit a break in the Oxnard area I plugged into Google Maps on my iPhone the destination and looked for its sage advice on the quickest route given traffic, etc. It told me my…
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Video Billboards in Concert
Don’t know if it’s in any advertiser’s future plans yet, but it was in the dream I just awoke from – someone spent a lot of money to make a city-wide spectacle using those video billboards. Don’t ask me which ad agency snuck into my cerebral cortex last night or what the pitch was, but…