Has Chattie found a place in your life? — I love AI! ChatGPT was such a breathtakingly amazing breakthrough that seemed to come out of nowhere, just a bit over a year ago. And shortly before that, the AI image generators arrived: DALL-E, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and so on. I want to talk about how I am using these AIs in my…

The under-appreciated Beatle — I’m not a Beatles expert or super-fan, but I love their music and find their catalogue to be unbelievably brilliant. Lately I’ve been appreciating George Harrison’s song-writing and singing. Consider these songs: The Great Something Here Comes the Sun While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Eric Clapton plays on it too) I Want…

David, we hardly knew ye — I refer you to Argumentative Penguin, I Don’t Care If Perlmutter Called The CEO of Medium A Stupid C**T. I immediately noticed the absence of David’s amusing trivia and commentary, and my Medium experience became the poorer for its lack. I hoped DP was not ill or dead, but not until the penguin’s article did I know he had been unceremoniously booted off of Medium. Please bring back the Permutter, no matter how severe (or trivial) his crime. I love having him here on Medium.

The punchline is, “Extinction of all life on Earth.” LOL — We insiders—by which I mean anyone paying attention — know that the plan to mitigate the climate catastrophe with Net Zero by 2050 is complete bullshit. But maybe you’ve absorbed the knowledge without really understanding why. So let’s talk about it. I am no climate scientist or expert. I’m just…

With apologies for the stupid article… — Prompt: Write a rhyming rap battle between Mr. Rogers and Don Rickles. Additional prompt (after unsatisfactory first try): try again, make Rickles much meaner, and use his trademark insult “Hocky puck”. Bing.com/new (GPT-4) response: Mr. Rogers: Hello, neighbor, it’s a beautiful day, I’m here to spread love in every way. But when it…

A Pickup Truck, a Buick, a Mustang, and EVs — As we left Part 1, speeding tickets had taken the bloom off the rose for my fun, speedy Rx7. I needed to slow down. I was into country music at the time, so I traded in the Rx7 and bought an old Chevy S10 pickup truck. …

A Rambler, a Volvo, and a Mazda Rx7 — Come take a walk with me down Memory Lane as I recall the cars of my life. I have owned a total of eight cars. Three were purchased used, and the other five were brand new off the dealers’ lots. These are the cars, with some amusing anecdotes about each…

Is a million bucks enough to retire on anymore? — Trigger warning! This is a whiny, first-world, rich white people’s problems article. Skip it if it is only going to piss you off. If you’ve been reading my Medium articles, you know that I am a reasonably well off privileged white fuck. But did you know that I am a…

Where is my total nutrition pill? — Trigger warning: This is a whiny, first-world, rich white people’s problems article. Read it at your peril. I am an anti-foodie. Food is just a bother to me. Weren’t they supposed to have invented a meal-in-a-pill by now? A total nutrition pill? I would be first in line for it. …