My Livejournal Archive
2023
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AI Writes Seinfeld
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3–4 minutesRead More →: AI Writes SeinfeldThe other day, I had a friend send me a video of a Seinfeld parody where the characters are from Mario Bros. Since the AI thing has become so prolific and it’s increasingly obvious people are just throwing anything at…
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America: Land of the “ID check required”
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1–2 minutesRead More →: America: Land of the “ID check required”ID check required to buy CHILDRENS COLD MEDICINE! Just classify all drugs as controlled substances already. Current Mood: 😡frustrated
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Some Reason for Optimism!
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3–4 minutesRead More →: Some Reason for Optimism!After losing an entire night worrying about my family’s Dwindling reserves (and having a long convo with an old friend with a financial background) I settled on giving things a few weeks, then cashing out my smaller retirement account and…
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Dwindling reserves… Do I sell house or cash out 401k?
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3–5 minutesRead More →: Dwindling reserves… Do I sell house or cash out 401k?[Originally posted on Reddit to ask for help…] I was laid off in the middle of July as part of the tech layoffs. I am the only person able to and do many household chores while my spouse is between…
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Paid to Meme?
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Paid to Meme?Saw a friend post on Facebook: “I need a meme about Zillow’s Zestimate being inaccurate.” Got me thinking about all the random meme’s I’d generated for LiquidWeb over the years (mostly to complain about customer’s). If I could get paid…
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Fixed a Harbor Freight Solar Battery Charger
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Fixed a Harbor Freight Solar Battery ChargerIn case this is broken in the future: the video is basically a repair of a cheap solar float charger from Harbor Freight. The positive lead and it’s solder pad had lifted away from the backing metal that the solar…
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AI Generated – Mediocre Creamy Garlic Crock Pot Potatoes
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1–2 minutesRead More →: AI Generated – Mediocre Creamy Garlic Crock Pot PotatoesWe had some potatoes starting to rot and Wife said I should look up a scalloped potato recipe. In my CIS college classes, one of my professors drilled into us, “work smarter” and “make the machine do the work” so…
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Canned Like Tomato Soup
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3–4 minutesRead More →: Canned Like Tomato SoupSo I had a new experience. It’s about 10 o’clock and I’m chugging along with a mind toward lunch when I see a weird email come in saying that I have a Google Meet with a long-timer that had disappeared…
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My AI photo generating process
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3–4 minutesRead More →: My AI photo generating processI’m trying for photorealism, but the only card I can make Stable Diffusion work on is an ‘ancient’ AMD R9 200 series video card with 3GB of VRAM so the resolution is incredibly limited. Still, there’s something magical (and oddly…
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More Medical Dipshittery
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1–2 minutesRead More →: More Medical DipshitteryThis stuff doesn’t even surprise me anymore, but it’s still funny in a way. So for two months, I’ve been getting bills from McLaren Greater Lansing to pay an $80 copay on a lab test that hasn’t been performed. I…
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