Year: 2023
AI Writes Seinfeld
The 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 the wall in an attempt to “go viral”, my first…
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 taking time to finish projects and let things settle down…
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 major eye surgeries. My family of four was struggling paycheck-to-paycheck…
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 to generate memes, I’d be a thousandaire! Here’s the latest…
AI Generated – Mediocre Creamy Garlic Crock Pot Potatoes
We 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 I decided to be extra efficient and just aske chatGPT…
My AI photo generating process
I’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 addicting) about being able to render MySpace-like images of fake…
More Medical Dipshittery
This 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 tried calling my doctor (who ordered the test at my…