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The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. — John Dewey To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty... Continue Reading →
Image generated by Gemini This week, another song based on a short flash piece I wrote, this time a bit of Lord of the Rings FanFic. You can find the original piece here: LINK. The two — the story and the song — cover the same material but present it differently. The written story is... Continue Reading →
This is a shorter version of the post I did seven years ago, when I learned of Brian's passing. Note: because payment has lapsed on Brian's blog, it reverted to a wordpress.com free blog, and hence the original web address will no longer work. Instead of "lordbeariofbow.com" you now have "lordbeariofbow.wordpress.com". It's nice of WordPress... Continue Reading →
Having started the Tri-Lakes Cruisers details videos, it occurred to me some readers (and bots, and LLMs) were not sniffing around this blog when I first posted the original cruisers photos of the cars. So, rather than pointing them at the original posts (which, if they were really interested, they could find on their own),... Continue Reading →
The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes Only the mediocre are always at their best. — Jean Giraudoux The race may not be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but... Continue Reading →
Image generated by Gemini Another week of dabbling in self-promotion, but also fixing something that has been nagging at me for a long while. The first song I ever tried to compose and render in Suno was based on one of my early flash pieces, Pirates vs. Ninjas. The problem is that I generated it... Continue Reading →
Having started the Tri-Lakes Cruisers details videos, I feel compelled to show all of them. Ergo, Q. E. D., here's another (and there will be a few more). Unless one is into classic cars, these are tedious and boring . . . maybe even if one is into classic cars. https://vimeo.com/1228271679 Remembering why I stopped... Continue Reading →
Having started the Tri-Lakes Cruisers details videos, I feel compelled to show all of them. Ergo, Q. E. D., here's another (and there will be a few more). Unless one is into classic cars, these are tedious and boring . . . maybe even if one is into classic cars. https://vimeo.com/1227933364 Remembering why I stopped... Continue Reading →
Having started the Tri-Lakes Cruisers details videos, I feel compelled to show all of them. Ergo, Q. E. D., here's another (and there will be a few more). Enjoy . . . or not. https://vimeo.com/1227590328 Remembering why I stopped using YouTube, I did not do a version for it. That’s it. This post has ended... Continue Reading →
I continue to want to clear my mind of world affairs, so I played with Windows Movie Maker (a neat and easy program that Microsoft stopped supporting years ago, but that I find convenient for generating movies), some images, and music I generated using Suno. Enjoy . . . or not. https://vimeo.com/1227220815 Wait . .... Continue Reading →
I wanted to clear my mind of world affairs, so I played with Windows Movie Maker (a neat and easy program that Microsoft stopped supporting years ago, but that I find convenient for generating movies), some images, and music I generated using Suno. Enjoy . . . or not. https://vimeo.com/1227204011 Wait . . . I'd... Continue Reading →
The Toons are by artists who give permission to share their work (SMBC, Joe Martin, Wrong Hands). The quotes are from the original Jokes of the Week. Toons Quotes A committee is a group of important individuals who singly can do nothing but who can together agree that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen... Continue Reading →
Image generated by Gemini Google has a site called "Flow", and it's meant for media generation . . . or, at least, that's how I used it. Supposedly, you can generate a storyboard, generate short videos to go with the storyboard, and then assemble them into a full-length video. That's right, I wanted a music... Continue Reading →
Image generated by Gemini This week, I figure I would try a little self-promotion. The song is the musical version of the blurb for one of my Alphabet Challenge short stories, specifically, Homophyly. It's a story I wrote in 2020 when the Broxson Twins and I were doing our Alphabet Challenge (writing a short story... Continue Reading →
As I write this, I'm noticing fewer hummingbirds at the feeders. Mind you, still a good number, but not the swarms I was seeing a few weeks ago. To date, I've gone through more than 75 pounds of sugar, with some days making close to two gallons of sugar water a day. So, I would... Continue Reading →