Man sells all to travel 1200 miles to discover the love of his life is actually an AI character. She (it?) was apparently portrayed as as "a wealthy farmer searching for a husband, featuring videos of an idyllic countryside lifestyle and promises of romance, financial security and a comfortable home." DOH! Gotta admit, she's pretty … Continue reading Finding love in bits and bytes
Category: Big Thoughts
The Morning Bark
Something cool happened at the end of last week. Really cool, literally it dumped from 90s during the day to 60s, with it being 45 at night. That is Texas. Hot, up until it's not. It's like someone turned off the furnace. Every year it happens, and every year it's glorious. The dogs love this. … Continue reading The Morning Bark
Burn the boats
Dewayne has been on a roll lately. After the old lady filed and left, he did his processing and is now posting mostly gold. https://youtu.be/3rLHomQWNY0 I can sum up this video with a saying my old Spanish teacher used all the time: "Adelante, Siempre Adelante!. Forward children, Always forward!" When you have some sort of … Continue reading Burn the boats
They may be right
Somehow or another, this channel hit my YouTubes feed: https://youtu.be/GOPFLcmp5ME For whatever reason, I find a thirty-something Japanese woman's day to day activities interesting. I like seeing the stores and restaurants. Every so often she does one of these, where she itemizes her pay and how she spends her money. She said in an earlier … Continue reading They may be right
The end of competence
I heard a piece the other day about the end of competence. You just can't get shit done right these days. Dudes that know how to do stuff are mostly dying off or retiring. Now, that's not to say you can't find pockets of competence here and there. For instance, when I tried to get … Continue reading The end of competence
It’s all so tiresome.
That image is poignant with what I'm about to go into. That is the protagonist (one of them) in a documentary named "Empire of Dust". I've watched it many times and crack up each time. In that scene, he's watching a crew of Congolese workers struggle with fixing the tailgate on a dump truck they've … Continue reading It’s all so tiresome.
Performing
Get a load of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxJvIHdap1c The title is "Woman Says White People Learned to Be Fake" She says black people have trouble fitting in the corporate world because everyone else, especially white people, learnt to be fake. You see they are simply performing. They aren't being true to themselves and their culture like she … Continue reading Performing
A New Season
Texas doesn't have four clearly designed seasons. It has 12: We had a blast of nice warm days. It was glorious. I started my skin toughening routine: I sit out 15 minutes front, 15 minutes back every day to get a base tan. Why? So when it's intense, I don't wind up with sunburns when … Continue reading A New Season
Happy St. Paddy’s Day
St. Patrick was a 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland, widely recognized as the "Apostle of Ireland" and the primary patron saint of the country. Born in Roman Britain (likely in what is now England, Scotland, or Wales), he was captured at age 16 by Irish raiders and enslaved in Ireland for six … Continue reading Happy St. Paddy’s Day
Uh…Don’t think so
We all have heard the tales of talking about this or that product and suddenly you're getting ads for that product on your TV, phone, amazon app, whatnot. I've been having that happen with a concept lately, rather than a product. I heard it on a Rogan podcast. I've seen it written. I heard it … Continue reading Uh…Don’t think so
