Another disappointing ChatGPT experiment. Another experiment with ChatGPT that immediately turned up a disappointing boundary: –Asked for fairy tale about pickles. –Received a fairy tale about pickles, pretty vague and unsatisfying, but a fairy tale. –Asked for a fairy tale about tomatoes. –Received same fairy tale, with pickle-related items swapped out for tomato-related items, confirmed […]

Sauerkraut pizza. Today’s experiment is sauerkraut pizza, homemade jalapeno sauerkraut + homemade dough. Will report. I had Ray make the dough; she’s always buying pitas for freaking mini pizzas. Me: So think about whatever’s pissing you off this week. And just grind down into the dough until it stretches. Then flop it around and griiiiind

Breaking AI text generator ChatGPT I have successfully fried ChatGPT by asking it the meaning of Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Circular Ruins.” … Question 1: what is the best market segment for fiction novels today Answer 1: It is difficult to determine the best market segment for fiction novels, as there are many different genres

Adventures du jour! The last few days have been something of a blur; I had a brain reset that hit pretty hard at the same time that I’m almost out of ADD meds, and I dropped a bunch of balls (but also got a lot of cool stuff done). I keep a spiral-bound notebook next

Adventures du jour! Yesterday I hit a wall and felt like I’d gone through a reset – from going through enough changes that my brain felt discontinuitous. I did minor tasks all day, some writing for the class, some editing on the story, completed some routine tasks, studied more, worked on yoga, etc. Then Ray

Best Horror of the Year, Ellen Datlow. HUH. I made it onto Ellen Datlow’s Recommended horror longlist for my story in Vastarian vol. 4. Vastarian is the literary journal dedicated to Thomas Ligotti, a wonderfully dark horror writer. My story was “The Woman Who Was Seen.” This makes my third time, I think? 3, 6,

Adventures du jour! Ray and I went to see Hadestown last night at the Tampa Straz Center. Total success. Hadestown: –Musical about Greek myths around Hades/Persephone and Orpheus/Eurydice. –The plot is a kick to the chest and I had to sit there and cry for a while. See the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, if

Taking a Dean Wesley Smith class… Listening to a Dean class and patting myself on the back for something extra-credit-y that I did. But he mentioned it like three times, soooooo I figured I probably should do it, because I know how. BUT the previous class I did with him he yelled at me for

Hadestown! I’m going to a musical tonight after HOW MANY YEARS and I am utterly useless today. (Hadestown.) The last time I went to a live musical, I learned that the Internet was for porn (in Denver), that’s how long it’s been. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH … No, I take it back, there was a more recent one

Blueberry pie. So for Thanksgiving I made blueberry pie, but we didn’t get that far. We’re eating it now: pie shells, blueberries, sugar, tapioca, and chaat masala (a green mango/tamarind-based mix; I got mine premade). It works YUMMILY, but on a level that’s hard to pick out specifically. So, like, the perfect secret ingredient. But