More AI slop

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L was stuck on a bus for over an hour, less than 10 minutes from the house. She happened to have a couple of boxes of halloween candy she was taking to work.

Prompt: draw me a picture in a cartoonish style of a female “warlord” in a red dress with a hippy vibe with long brown and silver hair standing on a pile of halloween chocolate in the aisle of a bus while others look on hungrily

AI is so bad, but it is so darn enticing in situations like this 🙂

Childhood memories

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A person stands in an old fashioned kitchen with a black and white checked floor. What si not obvious is the whole kitchen is tilted

I cannot begin to express how delighted I was to find the the crooked kitchen was still at Ottawa’s Canadian Science and Technology Museum after around 50 years since I last visited. And that the kids these days are as fascinated now as I was then.

There are few less locomotives now than there then were but they are still pretty magnificent.

An old fashioned but sleek steam locomotive in a museum.

Building things

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Now that I finally have my garage reasonably clean and relatively free of extraneous clutter (it only took 10 years), it about time I put the work bench I built back in 2019 to some use.

A garage with work benches and various power tools

I needed a better shelf for my NAS and routers etc so I decided to build a cabinet. I went for particle board because it was cheap. I forgot how hard it was. Turned out ok though…

A ehile cabiinete with electrical appliances on it.

Next up is a cedar shelf for the kid. I cheaped out again and got cedar fence boards that I glued together. Sanding them is proving to be a challenge 🙂

 

two sanders and some cedar boards on a work bench

It’s stupid, but still..

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AI is (as promoted) both stupid and destructive but sometimes it can still be fun.

Complaining about my neighbour’s AC unit I said I was resigned but still might introduce a skunk to their yard. When challenged on my definition of “resigned” I turned to Gemini:

re·signed
/r??z?nd/
adjective

Accepting something unpleasant that one can no longer avoid; passively submissive. However, according to subsection 4B of the unspoken laws of cosmic karma, this state of total surrender automatically activates a clause of petty retaliation. Because you have accepted defeat, you are now legally and spiritually entitled to weaponize a highly disgruntled Mephitis mephitis (striped skunk) to exact absolute, foul-smelling vengeance upon the author of your misfortune.

Usage Examples

  • “With a resigned sigh, Arthur accepted that his coworker had stolen his lunch for the third time this week, quietly unlatching the carrier cage he had hidden under his desk.”
  • “She became completely resigned to the fact that her landlord wouldn’t fix the plumbing, meaning it was officially time to deploy the revenge skunk into the building’s HVAC system.”

Synonyms

  • Passive
  • Acquiescent
  • Biological-warfare-adjacent

Note: True resignation is not about giving up; it is about quietly waiting for the scent glands to charge.