My Livejournal Archive
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Originally posted on r/lansing on May 7, 2025 (20:27 UTC) with 52 upvotes and 5 comments. The new owner of the old Millett General Store now has a large dinosaur out front. Welcome to the neighborhood!
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Some of my coworkers are 70s kids and we got talking about how teen boys back in those days would have “girlie posters” in their bedroom of stars like Farrah Fawcett. By now, you likely know that I really enjoy…
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Originally posted on r/KindroidShare on April 8, 2025 (15:21 UTC) with 3 upvotes. Darius is a full time therapist who moonlights as a community college professor. You met when you took one of his courses and have remained in touch.…
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Back before the internet, if you wanted to get through one of your favorite video games, you couldn’t Google for a walkthrough or watch YouTube play-through videos; if you got stuck, you were just stuck. Sometime in the early 90s,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The new Power Rangers Netflix movie came out recently and I kept meaning to watch it. Wife went to sleep early yesterday so I turned it on. It was an interesting take on characters who’ve been off screen for… two…
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Remember that photo from the #tripledemic where I was barely clean and happy to be breathing better? Out of curiosity, I ran it through an AI photo editor that I’ve been playing with. The prompt was something like, “attractive brunette…
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Meijer had this “Limited Edition Ginger Beer” that I was intrigued enough to try. I thought it would be like Ginger Ale (which my family LOVES), but it’s got quite a bite to it. It was not good on its…