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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”

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”