So this week I was reading Perhaps the Stars, the final book of “Terra Ignota”:
Teaser Tuesday: “Perhaps the Stars”
The Bots are Back in Town
So a while back I had posted a series of spam comments that were unusual because they were much more relevant to the post on which the spam attempt had been made ― that is, they were generated by something that had clearly read the posts in question, and that equally clearly did not understand it. Those spam comments had then died down for a while, but now they’re back. And for some reason, almost all of them are on the “Dumpster Fire” series over at the animals’ blog. Let’s take a look!
Continue reading “The Bots are Back in Town”Teaser Tuesday: Still “The Will to Battle”
So this week I was still* reading the third book in the “Terra Ignota” series, The Will To Battle, by Ada Palmer:
Your Brain’s In Jeopardy, Baby (Oooh)
I don’t watch Jeopardy! anymore, because, among other reasons, we don’t have cable anymore; but I used to watch it, and once even attended a taping (in the latter part of the Alex Trebek days) with my parents and my aunt.
Continue reading “Your Brain’s In Jeopardy, Baby (Oooh)”
Random Rejections: Welsh Publishing Group
So this week I decided to ask the Gods of Randomness to pick a folder and position in my vast trove of rejection (and a few acceptance) letters, and lo! They told me I should look in the folder labeled “W” and find the seventh item therein, which, as it turns out, was in fact two items stapled together. Here’s the first one:
Continue reading “Random Rejections: Welsh Publishing Group”Teaser Tuesday: “The Will to Battle”
So this week I was reading the third book in the four-book “Terra Ignota” trilogy (just go with it), The Will To Battle, by Ada Palmer:
The Early Years: Jim Can’t Draw Cards Either
From the “It’s The Thought That Counts” Department, this is a card I apparently made for my parents back in elementary school. Can you guess what holiday it’s for?
Teaser Tuesday: Seabury Quinn, “The Horror on the Links”
So for a while now I’ve been reading a volume of collected stories by Seabury Quinn:
The Last (Arcade) of Us
While I was watching an episode of Fungus Zombies* (better known as The Last of Us) on HBO, and my wife happened to be in the room:
Continue reading “The Last (Arcade) of Us”Lies, Damned Lies, and ChatGPT: Dennis the Vizsla
So this week we’ve arrived at the final installation of Abusing ChatGPT Lies, Damned Lies, and ChatGPT, in which it is asked to produce a biography of Dennis the Vizsla, who was, of course, the primary inspiration and main character (and boy was he a character) over at Dennis’s Diary of Destruction, back when it was Dennis’s Diary of Destruction. Surely with some eleven years of Dennis-related material to draw on, we could expect this installment to be the most accurate one, right? Right … ?
Viscosity 