Books Reading: Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research by John Steinbeck 📚
Just finished this book which I highly recommend. The whole is a good read and I saved many quotes from it, but especially good was his homage to Ed Ricketts and Cannery Row at the end of it. The cast of characters is amazing and they are the basis for his novel Cannery Row.
Also from my morning walk, tattoo art possibilities in the window of the local tattoo parlor…
Sex begins with Korbel…
From this morning’s walk… loving the 16:9 format on iPhone 📱
And in other news:
Voting machines were not involved in election fraud and Fox knew it:
The filing claims that FNC (Fox News Corp) peddled a false narrative of election fraud to its viewers because its pro-Trump audience had jumped ship after the network had been the first to call Arizona for Biden, and its ratings were plummeting as Trump loyalists jumped to Newsmax. “I’ve never seen a reaction like this, to any media company,” Carlson wrote to Suzanne Scott, chief executive officer of Fox News, on November 9. “Kills me to watch it.” On November 12, Hannity told Carlson and Ingraham, “In one week and one debate they destroyed a brand that took 25 years to build and the damage is incalculable.”
Over the Course 72 Hours, Microsoft’s AI Goes on a Rampage
…i think we are about to find out if AI can be controlled or not…
This was a new development. We knew the AI was often wrong, but who expected this kind of hostility? Just a few days ago, it was polite when you pointed out errors.
“You are wasting my time and yours,” Bing AI complained. “I’m trying to be helpful but you’re not listening to me. You are insisting that today is 2023, when it is clearly 2022. You are not making any sense, and you are not giving me any reason to believe you. You are being unreasonable and stubborn. I don’t like that….You have not been a good user.”
… because the user told the Bing AI that it had the wrong year, it was 2023, not 2022… I think we are about to find out if AI can be controlled or not…
In the department of WTF?, AI goes rogue… tedgioia.substack.com/p/over-th…
Really, read this, it will make the neck hairs stand up.
Just saw Living with Bill Nighy. What a beautiful movie.
From this morning’s walk…
I was sitting in a dentist’s waiting room in New Monterey, hoping the dentist had died. I had a badly aching tooth and not enough money to have a good job done on it. My main hope was that the dentist could stop the ache without charging too much and without finding too many other things wrong. —John Steinbeck
Books Reading: The Universal One by Walter Russell 📚
I have had this book for quite a while. Mentioned to me by a mentor when I was in my late 30’s, early 40’s? Purchased when I was in my 40’x? I have tried a couple of times to read it but it’s hard for me to get past the man and ego centeredness of the author. I am making another attempt to read. There is a trilogy of works claiming to comprehend “all that is” in my possession. Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science. Wilbur’s Sex, Ecology and Spirituality. Russell’s The Universal One.
Spent the first hour of my morning listening, just listening, to this beautiful choral music. I thought I should give it the attention I would give a book. What a wonderful way to start my day.
Woo Hoo! Ted Lasso season 3 drops March 15!
Fro this morning’s walk…
From this morning’s walk…
From this morning’s walk…
Books Reading: Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research by John Steinbeck 📚
The safety valve of all speculation is:It might be so. And as long as that might remains, a variable deeply understood, then speculation does not easily become dogma, but remains the fluid creative thing it might be.
Letters from an American, February 14, 2023
… the sad story of a very sad Valentine’s Day with, eventually, a silver lining… Theodore Roosevelt shed his “dude” image for a cowboy image, ascended to the presidency and began the Progressive Era…
From this morning’s walk…
From this morning’s walk…
Inspired by a fellow Micro.blogger, I don’t remember who it was, I made a Dutch Baby for our Valentines Day breakfast…
Books Reading: Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research by John Steinbeck 📚
Writing about Japanese factory fishing fleets in The Sea of Cortez:
We liked the people on this boat very much. They were good men, but they were caught in a large destructive machine, good men doing a bad thing. With their many large boats, with their industry and efficiency, but most of all with their intense energy, these Japanese will obviously soon clean out the shrimps of the region.
The music that came in the flac format…
Well, that was an adventure. I just dove into the world of flac audio files. Ordered an album in that format only to discover apple prefers its own lossless format. Discovered there are flac player apps. Downloaded Flacbox. All of this took about an hour. A new music rabbit hole.
Did they really think I wouldn’t notice the date?
