(... not validating "dobro" in today's #NYTSpellingBee felt off-key for me)
@obb-brad.bsky.social
Michigan guy enjoying the world and humor of humankind. Realizing there's not enough time to experience/know/read/talk/share everything! (But why not try 😊)
(figured on the #wordle today in 2 guesses - feeling pretty good, eh!)
(Morgan Wallen concerts in Ann Arbor spiked hotel rates by double/triple the usual rates. So many other ways those $ could be spent...)
when Wordle makes me guess an Estonian word in order to luck into the final result one step later, it's a tough puzzle. And disagree with the Wordle solution today, not a word. Hrrmph.
off one letter on the Wordle today and it made a monkey out of my guess
Dude decided to pose the geese by throwing his fast food on the ground... right under the "DO NOT FEED The Geese" sign 🙄
wow - great episode. If Colbert wants to rotate Community access, this format would be great as "Ferndale Tonight". Alas, no Martin Mull to co-host
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3mo agoFor those of you already missing Stephen Colbert, he's resurfaced on community public access in Monroe, Michigan, and no, I am not joking: youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4
Things I don't understand: 1. Govt and financial institutions still requiring faxes. 2. Lego movies.
Retro twist this morning: yes, I put ketchup on my egg whites today. Nostalgia trip back to being a kid 😊
(... nice thing about physical books: they don't fade to blank if you take too long to read a page or put it down for a minute 📖)
Let's not worry about AI until AI can fully get "I don't know what it is, but it is what it is, isn't it?"
... today's Bluesky experience feels like a Star Trek transporter that keeps fading innnn, and outtttt ... need "mooore powerrrr!" 😜
wanted to be an active Participator in today's NYTSpellingBee, but alas...
When Amazon has an ebook on sale for $0.99, how much trickles back to the publisher? to the author? Feels more like the old LPs in the cutout bin (who gets "cut out")
oh, whatever will I do with myself? no college football bowl game today....
only a 1-pt word, but I think "pion" is not so small it should be overlooked in the NYTSpellingBee today...
awesome experiment, do not use Claudius to do your taxes this year
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 8mo agoI’m HOLLERING. “Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University. After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
Today's rabbit hole: the Golden Record on Voyager spacecrafts, and EMI was so miserly they wanted to charge for sending Here Comes the Sun into the universe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager....
Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Spinning some LPs today... and wondering why some call it Side A / Side B, and others Side 1 / Side 2, and yet others Side I / Side II. Is there an ISO Standard being violated here?
Why do I find it unsettling that Google's Holiday calendar considers Black Friday as an Observance?
Listening to Yes albums today, realize I'd rather have Roger Dean posters in the Lincoln bathroom
Looking to subscribe to "neutral" news source that also supports indep journalists. Kinda looking for not just U.S. so that makes it a harder task. ("neutral" doesn't mean both-sideism)
Why I resist AI agents: there's no escalation of any problem-solving. If you start with g_d who do you appeal to? And if you do, it's just Agent_AI_PlusOne.
Again, no way that many people "guessed" today's #wordle on the first try. Are these the same folks that cheat at solitaire?
No, I do not believe ~5,000 entries "guessed" today's #wordle solution on the first try. No.
"AI Overview" on Google search is just getting creepy. Ask for sites with fill-in-the-blank and the response is "yes there are sites for fill-in-the-blank, blah blah blah..." Just give me the damn sites instead of making me scroll below the garbage response
No, I do not believe 0.4%, or over 7,000 people guessed the opening #wordle answer today. Not credible.