Author: William Davenport

Now a father, husband, and overall 'techie guy', this Geriatric Millennial started a LiveJournal in 2005 (at the age of 20) to document his thoughts and the random happenings in his young adulthood. He enjoys Star Trek, tennis, and taking things apart.

Another Repair Success

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Career Techy
When they tell you the new one is more than $200, you tell them, “I do it for three-fi’ty!” This was a really fun repair that exercised the skillset for my new job. Awesome way to get my hands into something without any risk. I’m told these fixtures normally get…
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Neo-LJ

AI Writes Seinfeld

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AI Entertainment
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…
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Neo-LJ

America: Land of the “ID check required”

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Moods Political
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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Career Friends & Family Moods
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…
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Dwindling reserves… Do I sell house or cash out 401k?

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Career Friends & Family Moods
[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…
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Reddit

Paid to Meme?

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Career Techy
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…
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Fixed a Harbor Freight Solar Battery Charger

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Moods Techy
In 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 cells are built on. I couldn’t build up a new…
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AI Generated – Mediocre Creamy Garlic Crock Pot Potatoes

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Entertainment Friends & Family Techy
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…
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Neo-LJ

Canned Like Tomato Soup

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Career
So 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 into the corporate structure and who, I haven’t seen or…
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Neo-LJ

My AI photo generating process

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Entertainment Techy
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…
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