Grahame

Happy Birthday, Naaman! Gemini / Bard is having a bit of a lie down right now when it comes to generating images of people. But there are other sources! "generate a photorealistic picture of a bald, buff, ex-helicopter pilot enjoying a triple OLED monitor racing sim rig on their birthday." It's almost like we are there! Bing ? oh yes, and Have a great day.

Happy Birthday Dan. The AI gods have smiled on you this year!

I can't even ... "More than 120,000 PlayStation users have paid £3.29 to pet virtual hamsters, dogs and beavers. What’s behind this madness?" https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/15/stroke-of-genius-how-one-developer-created-a-hit-game-in-just-30-minutes

Happy Birthday Colin!

Crepes Savory And Sweet

Happy Birthday Steve!

^Where's the Birthday Earl Beige?

Earlier today

Turkey Chili

Crepes (Not show savory) Show - sweet - lemon juice and sugar

Crepes

RIP John Walker, Founder of Autodesk (responsible for AutoCAD), and The Hacker's Diet. https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/13/john_walker_obit/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297185

RIP Bob Moore. His steel cut oats make decent porridge ("oatmeal"). Available in Costco. RIP Bob. https://pdx.eater.com/2024/2/12/24070041/bob-moore-bobs-red-mill-death-obituary https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/12/bob-moore-red-mill-dead/

In unrelated news https://nypost.com/2024/02/05/tech/apple-vision-pro-blasted-as-3500-chastity-belt-for-blocking-porn/

Presenting your children's dystopian AI future. It's like no one involved in the product read "I Always Do What Teddy Says" by Harry Harrison, written in 1965. If you haven't either, someone copied the text of the short story here (show full description for text, on mobile) https://www.deviantart.com/aegiandyad/art/I-Always-Do-What-Teddy-Says-259013944 Academic reference: https://openpublishing.psu.edu/utopia/content/i-always-do-what-teddy-says

How is my assimilating?

A sports ball match. The super bowl, The Andy Sidaris movie of sporting events? Given that it's still nil-nil after 45 minutes elapsed (half time) it's almost like proper football!

Does this make me a bad person?

An Andy Sidaris movie buffering would definitely interrupt the narrative flow.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/15864749683 1.2 Gbps down , overprovisioned to 1.4Gbps. looks about right. 2.5Gbps ports on Cable modem, WAN/LAN ports on router, switch and PC over Cat6 will do that. No Mid split here, yet, so still only 40Mbs up 😠 https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast_Xfinity/wiki/knowledgebase/next-generation-internet/#wiki_west_division Still waiting for uncapped sonic.net fiber to get here. 😞 https://www.sonic.com/

More geothermal activity Stay safe.

Happy Birthday Jeff! Zap yourself up something nice, or watch an Andy Sidaris Movie!

I survived the atmospheric river chicken curry https://patch.com/california/sanrafael/wind-gusts-topped-100-mph-marins-coastal-mountains