I love playing disc golf. There is something about the discs flying through the air and (hopefully) landing where you were aiming that is very cathartic to me. I started playing in the early 90s when I lived in Rochester, NY. There was a group of guys that I played...
Item 39 reborn
Rather than talk about what item39.com isn't. Let me tell you what it is. During an all to recent episode of life that found my grandmother in the hospital 5 months shy of her 95th birthday, I found myself in one of those states of mind that is most akin to molting....
Gnome – Wenceslas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzG-qji05Lc I happened upon this band / song. "Wenceslas", the second video taken from Gnome's album "King" on Polderrecords.Music by Gnome - Facebook Recorded & Mixed at RockstarRecordings by Frank Rotthier - Mastered by Larsson...
Dall-E 2
To say I have been fascinated with text to image AI would be a major understatement. The image above is of a woman that does not exist, wearing a "mask" and other Mardis Gras paraphernalia. What is Dall-E DALL-E is an AI model developed by OpenAI that generates unique...
Stock Strategy: Averaging Down
So, I wish I were a more saavy investor. But I tend to geek on the maths and the gambling nature of it all. I have a couple of stocks that have done very poorly. One is NEPT, Neptune Wellness, that had a reverse 12:1 split. Meaning for every 12 shares I had, I now...
Mega Millions Results
So in a previous post, I used ChatGPT to write a lottery number simulator/chooser. It is set to a low number of iterations now, but when I ran it through to actually choose the numbers I was going to play, I let it iterate 30 million times per choice. So the number...
The Parade
It is no secret that I love John Vanderslice. He kept me going during covid with live Instagram shows weekly. I think those shows kept him going to. One of the coolest things he did was some living room shows. I was able to see him, talk to him, and listen to him in...
Creating a Lottery Number Generator with ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Mega Millions Lottery
I have been messing around with ChatGPT a lot in the last 2 months. I thought it would be interesting to use it to program a random number generator, that also kept track of frequencies of certain numbers over many iterations. Every bit of this code and the css was...
13 Reasons You Are Not as Successful as You Want To Be
Originally written by Jim Kukral HERE there is also an infographic on his site HERE Feeling down about your small business these days? Is the broken economy hurting your sales and keeping you up at night? Need some motivation and tough love to help you stop pitying...
A Day on The Internet
Many of us know the internet is big, but how many of us know how big it really is? Here are a couple of infographics that will help put the hugeness of the internet into perspective.
How to Stop Being Lazy
Every wonder if there is a cure for laziness? Well there is! Sort of. Follow these tips and you just might stop being lazy. Watch your diet. If you’re not getting enough vegetables or healthy foods into your body, it can also affect your overall energy. Try to cut out...
70 of the Most Useful sites on the Web
As we spend more and more time online, it's important to have a go-to list of websites that can help with a variety of tasks and needs. From productivity tools to educational resources, the internet is filled with an abundance of sites that can make our lives easier...
Strong, Intelligent and Beautiful
You are strong, intelligent and beautiful. If people are threatened by you it is because they see you in that light; strong, intelligent and beautiful. No one is ever threatened by weak, stupid and ugly, ever. - Scott Slusser
Jesus the Horse Thief Video Game
Update 2023: The video game is no longer available, sadly. Have I mentioned that I love the Kansas Bible Company? They created an 8-bit video game for their song "Jesus the Horse Thief." You have to check it out. No, seriously, you do.
John Vanderslice – Sea Salt
https://youtu.be/fUiw9MUHMBI Sea Salt Lyrics Sun shines on the Gaza StripSmiles on the back alleys of MadridComes off the stone like a burning whipBut it's night here on the ridgeAnd the snowfall adds up inch by inch I've wasted my daysBattered and ground down by wave...
Dexter Theme on Moog
https://soundcloud.com/ploareel/dexter-theme-with-moog?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing I came across this on Soundcloud. Interesting version of the theme. If you have some interested in SoundCloud and want to know how to get...
Kansas Bible Company – How Do You Build a Planet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33VO3dgeGqI I was introduced to a band that once was from my backyard. Now living in Nashville, Kansas Bible Company was from Goshen, IN. I had the pleasure of seeing them play at Constant Springs at the end of their summer tour. It was...
Spectacular Google Maps
I have to say, even though the map data may leave a little to be desired, the 3D views of Chicago are stunning. I expected a SimCity sort of experience but this is like virtual reality. My daughter and I are going to a Cat Power show in November and we will be staying...
Really Apple? Wabee Lake? Again?
Apple Maps - Wabee Lake? Everyone knows that it is spelled Waubee Lake! I was excited to see that the OSX Mavericks update was out and that it was Free! I upgraded it like the good early adopter that I am and fired up the new Maps program. Initially, Maps asks if it...
Vehicular.us Update
After a little more than 6 months the Vehicular Experiment has yielded some very interesting lessons. Before I get into lessons learned I want to reiterate the experiment , the goals for the site, the analytics and revenue. I had a collection of low quality...
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