Chugga chugga chugga goes the 12 bar space age (bachelor pad) blues. In the same way a pot of your granny’s soup comes to be more than the sum of its secretive parts, the far-out music bubbles and squelches and fizzes and farts in all the right places, all gnarly, knotted wood Fender fuzz bass […]…

Full credit to CogDogBlog for this writing prompt and his attempt to nail ChatGPT with a known quantity (Fluid Dynamics and Volcanology). Cliff Claven on the other hand just like most other attempts at prompting ChatGPT does escape the same level of scrutiny. But that doesn’t make the rejoinder, “…what else are you gonna do…

https://wp.me/p1mEF-77x Tony Hirst brief take on the spectrum of cheating, but also how that might be harnessed to measure student performance and mastery. The question isn’t “if” but WHEN are the students going to escalate up to the higher/negative end of the spectrum. Diploma mill, contract cheating, are all very intentional acts. But there’s a…

No end of year review here trying to track-back and account for what it IS I actually DO here. No this is just a pole, a fence post, hammered into the ground. This is the fence line between last year and now. Things happened, some were successful. Others were not (to borrow from Sec. Don…

If you’re a long-time Windows user, you’re aware that several processes or features in the operating system are linked to File Explorer. While explorer.exe should be associated with file management only, it’s also associated with other parts of the Windows experience, like the Taskbar, which isn’t exactly a good thing for performance. Microsoft has been……

Mastodon don’t fail me now! It’s that time, the time where people adopt the next big thing. Just like when I got my first FB account in 2005 and sat around waiting for the big wave to come in (2007) I had 1 half-hearted attempt at a Mastadon account, that I let go fallow. But…

This film was so novel in it’s day people freaked out at how good it was. The production values were exemplary. No crappy animations, or amateurish attempts at lighting. No. This was space as rendered by Norman McLaren’s National Film Board. And that narration, the voice,… that gentle whispery voice of Canadian stage actor Douglas…

From the Martin Shkreli school of product pricing, I give you RealPage: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent. More or less you can subscribe to this service and “anonymously” compare your tenant leases with others in your area. Therefore it’s “NOT” collusion, or price-fixing, or gouging. Let the algorithm do the work of raising the rents. https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent

Checkout Alan Levine’s blog, outlining the benefits of using OpenVerse for image searches. Ditch Google Image search this very minute. They’ve given up, they don’t care. What’s cooler still is if you’re on a WordPress.com hosted site like me, you already can access OpenVerse from the Upload Image button in the Block editor. It shows…

A specific kind of trauma results when a person’s core principles are violated during wartime or a pandemic Moral Injury Is an Invisible Epidemic That Affects Millions — Scientific American News And Today I Learned – there’s a thing called “Moral Injury” which is separate and independent of PTSD. And it’s something that can be treated.…