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A decade ago, my Halloween costume was Cookie Monster, and I liked that fuzzy jacket so much, it’s become my standard winter coat.

I also have a cozy green scarf shaped like a dragon. So when it’s really cold, I end up dressing like Cookie Monster choking on a noodle dragon.

It used to be that if I didn’t practice getting out and interacting with people, I would go kind of feral…

After several years of pandemic, sticking to my small bubble, it feels less like going feral and more like I’ve just become a permanent indoor kitty.

Out of curiosity, I made an account with a text generating AI program, and I’ve been wrestling with it to see if it’s useful or fun…

So far, it’s at least as hard as normal writing, possibly harder.

I wanted to start off with a project I’m invested in enough to bother with… but not so much that I’ll mind outside interference.

Then I remembered I had a first sentence stored away for a furry re-imaging of The Matrix and figured writing about AI with an AI could be fun… Continue reading “Experimenting with AI Writing”

The music at the open air plaza where I go to write sometimes is especially jazzy today and has a repeated riff that strongly evokes the music in Sneakers to me. It makes me feel like instead of writing a novel, I must be doing some sort of top secret codebreaking hacking.

My spouse, a professor: “I came up with an academic parody of Monster Mash!”

Spouse, singing: “I was working in the lab late one night…” Continue reading “Monster Mash Variant”

Halloween accomplished! We took the kids trick-or-treating downtown, watched The Sixth Sense, ate pumpkin spice pancakes for dinner, carved jack-o-lanterns, and walked through a haunted farm event.

And yet, somehow there’s still a full day before it’s Halloween…

I’d only ever seen “The Sixth Sense” once before, easily over twenty years ago, and my brain had condensed it down in my memory to basically just the twist at the end… but wow, that is a masterful movie all the way through. Just incredibly well done on every level.

Hanging out with my kid, both working… and slowly realizing, “Wait a minute, that’s not biology homework, that’s just jellyfish videos you’re watching for fun!”

I’m all for the kid learning about jellyfish for fun, but it’s also good when they do actual schoolwork too.

It is truly nonsense the sheer number of things that druids are allowed to do while in flight form that other classes cannot do while mounted (in World of Warcraft). It makes the classes wildly unbalanced, steeply skewed in favor of druids.

My kid’s Gothic Literature class has moved from Frankenstein onto Jekyll & Hyde… so far, I’m not loving it.

Frankenstein was overwrought, but I actually quite enjoyed the prose. That’s not so much happening with Jekyll & Hyde so far… However, it does look to be quite short. Continue reading “Jekyll & Hyde”