An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
When the 15-year-old was little, we entertained them sometimes by giving them imaginary ponies. We’d describe a pony, and their imagination is so strong, it was like a real gift.
Lately, I’ve been rewarding them for doing difficult schoolwork with ponies drawn by Midjourney…
This is my favorite example so far of an AI trying to write text while I was working with it.
The cat ghost looks so hopeful and maybe a little pleased with itself, like it hopes you’re proud of how well it tried to spell “ghost.”
I… accidentally made my dragon a Horde character and didn’t notice until I got to Orgrimmar…
*sobs*
Well, I briefly had nine max level characters in Warcraft… Continue reading “Evoker, Take Two”
I’m helping my kid work on schoolwork today instead of making a dragon character in World of Warcraft, and I keep feeling this irrational fear that if I don’t hurry, somehow all the new dragon characters will get taken.
We got sushi takeout, and my elderly cat—who has grown accustomed to sharing a little of the salmon with me—got overly pushy and stepped in the soy sauce.
So I gave her a whole lecture about how she had GONE TOO FAR and cats who step in the soy sauce don’t get any salmon…
And then I gave her some salmon.
I now have eight max level characters in World of Warcraft!
With multiple weeks, probably, before the max level goes up!
This is clearly a very important accomplishment. Oh, they’re all different classes. I’m gonna have a lot of leveling to do when the expansion comes out to maintain this…
It came up that the younger child didn’t remember the Square One song about Roman numerals, so even though it’s way past bedtime, everything had to stop until they’d seen “The Mathematics of Love,” “Anti-Hero,” and “Nine, Nine, Nine.”
Square One may have been the best show ever made.
My kid’s English teacher, who my kid adores, praised their work and talked about holding them to a higher standard because she could see they were capable of so much.
So now every time the kid tries to work on English, they freeze, worried their work won’t be brilliant enough. Continue reading “The Double-Edged Sword of Capability”
I have a top level mage in World of Warcraft!!!
I tried to level up a mage yeeeeeears ago and was thwarted by how squishy they are, so this feels like a big triumph.
Along with my warlock, rogue, hunter, druid, and shaman, this makes for six top level characters! I expect to have a top level priest and demon hunter too soon. Continue reading “Tidbits from Screens”
That feeling when you’re trying to help your kid write an essay on Ozymandias, but instead end up comparing the essay — which is not yet written — to the top half of Ozymandias (ie. gone)… except also Merlin, because it’s in the future instead of the past…
I am very helpful. Continue reading “Tidbits from a Reality That’s Evolving Into Crabs”