Happy Valentine’s Day to you, fair reader. I made a batch of candy hearts for you. Enjoy!
“Love is many things, none of them logical.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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Posts Tagged ‘Thoughts’
Happy You
Posted in Holidays, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Thoughts on February 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Which is Witch
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, AI, Thoughts, Writers, WritingResearch on February 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I’m working on a project and recently found myself at the CIA’s website (as one does). After finding the information I needed I was about to leave when a link caught my eye. Spy Kids. What, I wondered, would the CIA use to appeal to children?
Answer: stories and games.
Well, I had to check that out.
Next thing I knew, I’d lost a considerable amount of time playing with codes.
It turns out that ChatGPT is magic at some codes, and spectacularly bad at others. The key seems to be in knowing which is which.
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Let’s See If I Have This Right
Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Super Bowl, Thoughts, yay on February 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »
So, I understand that there’s a game of some sort on today? A Big game? What’s that, you say? It’s a Super game?
Just kidding. Go Eagles!
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Life, Man
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, appliances, home, Thoughts, writing on February 11, 2023| 2 Comments »
Yesterday, I gave my mother an appliance-related pep talk. Their fridge was making an ugly sound, but they managed to fix it, yay.)
Today, our dryer threw in the towel. Literally, as in, no matter how many times we ran the thing, the towels (and sheets, and shorts, and socks) refused to dry. Ruh-ro.
Enter Mr. Man. Trusty voltmeter in hand, he forged into the depths of the laundry room and after a valiant battle, emerged victorious. (For definitions of “victorious” that involve 3–5 day shipping of replacement parts.) The heating coil had snapped, so it was perhaps unsurprising that it could no longer perform its function.
So it was a no-writing day. Still, while the day was a bit of a wash (heh), it’s looking up!
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Nonfictional Fiction
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, Fiction, genre fiction, inspiration, public policy, science fiction, Thoughts, Writers, writing on February 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I started multiple posts today (mackerel? Winnie the Pooh? cracking CIA kiddie codes?) but none seemed quite right. I think I’ll go shovel some snow and see if that gets my mind going.
In the meantime, here’s a piece about the usefulness of science fiction in the nonfictional world.
Connecting Science Fiction to Science Policy by Avital Percher
Science fiction can help the science policy community envision both where we end up as well as how we get there. As our social-technological problems grow ever more complex, we need a range of stories that spans the human experience and even beyond. How will we leverage new tools to improve equity and democracy in society? Science fiction can help us imagine future possibilities, opening not just our minds but our hearts as well.
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Lesson Learned
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, learning, Thoughts on February 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The leading edge of a weather system is overhead, and we’ve been told to expect snow, sleet, a wintry mix, and a heavy dose of freezing rain. Fun, right?
I’m optimistic that our heat and power will hold out, but on the off chance that it does not, I’m going to charge my devices, start the fireplace, and post today’s entry now.
Just in case.
“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
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Purrfect Happiness
Posted in Science!, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, #ChatGPT, AI, my cat, Thoughts on February 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »
It’s like this: I have a whole folder titled 365, full of interesting and informative ideas for this blog. I even had an idea for the post I wanted to do today, but lo (for various reasons involving day job bureaucracy for both myself and Mr Man), ’tis not to be. Instead, I give you ChatGPT’s idea of “a quote about joy in the voice of my cat.”
“Joy is found in the simple things, like a warm sunbeam, a cozy napping spot, and a good belly rub. Purr-fect happiness is just a whisker’s length away.”
— Your Cat.
Because this is the sort of information that everyone needs.
For more on cats and whiskers:
* You may also know that “chat” is French for cat. So now we know what’s really behind A.I…. that’s right, animal intelligence.
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S.T.T.L.T.E. (And That’s Ok)
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Thoughts on February 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Some things take longer than expected. Today’s plan involved a project that was expected to take two hours, and instead took five. And that’s ok. Mr Man was productive, I was social, and a good time was had by all.
In keeping with the theme, we picked up the mail on the way home and found a postcard that had made its way here to Canada from Port Lockroy, in the British Antarctic Territory (how cool is that?). Dated Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2022.
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Cold. White. Quiet.
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, Thoughts, winter, Writers on February 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »
“covered in snow
the trees rest in
winter silence”
― Meeta Ahluwalia
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That’s All
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, just life, Thoughts on February 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »
“You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.”
― Cheryl Strayed
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