That's a Wrap
May. 16th, 2026 06:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frith
My Venus flytrap looks like it's about to give up the ghost. So I went looking for fresh
'Lo and behold, carnivorous plants! Fly traps, and Nepenthes and pitcher plants and sundews, oh my! Very expensive too. But oh no, oh woe, no tall red and green Sarracenia. Sadness. I fought the tears and got a bag of potting sphagnum moss, a wee sundew and two flytraps, one for me and one for the neighbour. The sundew is flowering! 8^D The neighbour gave me a two week supply of apple juice. I gave him a gallon of rainwater. And the flytrap, of course.
Well that's it for fringe Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, where I'll post Harry Potter and "A.I" slop if I feel like it, thankyouverymuch. Not that I'll go looking for a bot to spit out a text for me, what would be the point? Why would anyone want to read something by something that does not understand what it is that it is stringing together?
Gotta post and run: it's nice out and the first garage sale weekend of 2026 starts now. It will give me an excuse to ride my 38 years old bicycle. Time to get up, go out and melt some lard.
Six hours later. I bought 1 cookie (75¢), 1 orange/vanilla milkshake ($5.60), 1 DVD ($1 Jumanji II The Next Level) and some stretchy bead string that looks like fishing line ($2 because I asked, she had some and assured me it wouldn't snap after a few years). I also took over a dozen pictures of one lawn. I am ze tired.
Thoughts
Date: 2026-05-16 09:51 pm (UTC)Yay! :D I've seen that at a plant shop, which keeps its bog plants in a glass cabinet. I know better than to try growing anything that specialized myself, but I was very happy to see them blooming in person.
>> Well that's it for fringe Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, <<
This year I wrote about becoming an expert by reading 3 books on a topic. I think I got a few takers. :D
>>where I'll post Harry Potter and "A.I" slop if I feel like it, thankyouverymuch.<<
Go you! I was really offended by that bullshit. The only official parameter is encouraging people to post only on Dreamwidth every day for 3 weeks. Any size, any topic.
I hate censorship. Come on, I tried to read The Satanic Verses just because people said not to. I only made it about the first chapter. I got to book three or four of Harry Potter before I got bored and gave up. Some of the fanfic is loads better than the canon. So of course, I wrote a post about censorship for Three Weeks.
>> Not that I'll go looking for a bot to spit out a text for me, what would be the point? Why would anyone want to read something by something that does not understand what it is that it is stringing together? <<
I guess "poke a censor in the eye" is now a reason. I don't really like AI. I especially resent people sticking it in places where it's hard to avoid. But I still like AI better than I like censors.
>>Gotta post and run: it's nice out and the first garage sale weekend of 2026 starts now.<<
Awesome. I love how in recent years, townwide garage sale events have developed. I have a bunch marked on my calendar.
>> It will give me an excuse to ride my 38 years old bicycle. Time to get up, go out and melt some lard.<<
Go for it!
>>I also took over a dozen pictures of one lawn.<<
The spring beauties and red trillium?
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2026-05-16 11:23 pm (UTC)AI slop is a bane on search results and it is only going to get worse. If money can be made with nigh zero effort, shysters will rise to the occasion.
I've been a fan of garage sales since forever. Most of my dishes and utensils were acquired via garage sales. Which is why I didn't buy much of anything today, I already have nearly everything! When I acquire something, it is mine forever. That means there just isn't any room for more stuff. Heh, my Black and Decker toaster is older than my bicycle and it works great. I will never need another toaster.
The lawn in a residential neighborhood was a blue and yellow blanket of dandelions and speedwell (Veronica). Red trilliums and Spring beauties grow in the woods, not on lawns, although I do have _one_ brave Spring beauty growing at the edge of the llama-tended field, next to my wellwater pipe and far from any trees. I'll post a picture of the Veronica/dandelion mix another day. ^_^
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