I haven't been doing much shooting recently, what with life, AI, snacks, and other important stuff taking up my time. Oh, yeah, I've also been busy producing music to serve as background for when I get back to writing or doing other productive stuff. Here's a link to a short playlist sampling (23 instrumentals): March... Continue Reading →
Monday’s Toons & Quotes — 164
The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms... Continue Reading →
Sixteen Years of Noise
Created with Gemini So, I had Claude help me write a song about this blog's 16th anniversary. It took me a long while to tweak and finalize it. I mean, there are still parts I want to change, but I'm done working on it. Here are the final lyrics: Sixteen Years of Noise © E.... Continue Reading →
Sixteen Years and 4.5 Million Words Later
Today is the 16th anniversary of this blog. This LINK opens the first post. Let me give you a few numbers . . . This is the annual insight from Jetpack. That's a bit hard to read, so here's a snapshot of the spreadsheet version of that. That is a lot of words . .... Continue Reading →
The Hardest Road of All
Why the Biggest Obstacle to Space Isn’t Technical — It’s Us "The Hard Road to Space" as rendered by Perplexity AI Everything you are about to read below this shaded block was written by Claude based on a 'conversation' I had with Claude, and, yes, Claude summarized it. This is somewhat of a continuation of... Continue Reading →
The Hard Road to Space
or: Why Asking Hard Questions Isn’t the Same as Saying No "The Hard Road to Space" as rendered by Gemini AI Everything you are about to read below this shaded block was written by Claude. As explained, one of the two linked documents shared below is based on a 'conversation' I had with Gemini, summarized... Continue Reading →
Monday’s Toons & Quotes — 163
The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.— John Locke He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy... Continue Reading →
About Getting Published
Whisk AI image - Traditional versus Self-Publishing The last time I was enthused with writing and contemplated ideas about getting published was in 2017. I wrote two posts about a possible plan based on the realization that no agent or publisher would pick up any of my books (LINK, LINK). Even so, I knew that... Continue Reading →
Remembering Colonialist
This is the 6th anniversary of Colonialist's passing (that's a link to his blog). His actual name was Leslie Hyla Winton Noble, and Colonialist was the name of his blog. As is the case with many bloggers, we get to know each other by our online monikers and avatars . . . here's his avatar,... Continue Reading →
Grand-Nieces Quilts
AI-generated Composite image To be clear, the above is not an AI image per se; it's a composite made from two images that appear later in this post. You see, I had snapped individual images of each quilt, shipped them off, and then, as I got ready to write this post, I realized I didn't... Continue Reading →
Monday’s Toons & Quotes — 162
The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.— e e cummings In the End, we will remember... Continue Reading →
Monday’s Toons & Quotes — 161
The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.— Isaac Asimov Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.— Voltaire... Continue Reading →
Heron, Duck, and Grass
'Been busy with stuff, and maybe a bit lazy, and maybe playing with AIs, so not many posts recently, so I figure I should post something. So I thought, and pondered, and thought some more, and then it came to me! Heron, duck, and grass! Of course! It's so obvious! Anyway, here they are .... Continue Reading →
I Updated Monday Toons & Quotes #160
It was brought to my attention that the cartoons for MT&Q 160 were the same as MT&Q 159. A quick explanation is in order. I typically do one or two months of MT&Q at a time, and schedule them appropriately. I work using an alternating inverse sequence when copying and updating each version. Meaning, I... Continue Reading →
Monday’s Toons & Quotes — 160
The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.—from the “Treaty of Tripoli” which was signed during the term... Continue Reading →
