I like how much my frozen gait looks like Bigfoot footage at the swimming area of OB. On Sunday here at 7am will be the CREEPING OF THE MATS from @packrattrecords / @lowerpowered — I’ll be bringing some of my surf mat California bear flag stickers to give away. They’re glittery!
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26-Oct-2023
sunsets are sooner and better in the water
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26-Oct-2023
“AI” – artificial intelligence is not that. It’s not the intelligence we hope our children and grandchildren will develop to make their way in the world. If you’ve used “autocomplete” or a “grammar check” then you’ve used tools in the “AI” category. The software — LLMs — (large language models) take in huge volumes of human data and create even more gigantic indexes of the patterns in the data. Sentences and paragraphs; stanzas and chapters; drawings and renderings all form the basis of such LLMs. @vizcom_ is designed for developing products – for example automotive interiors — I learned about it yesterday from my friend Chris. I made a free account with Vizcom and managed to turn a sketch of the rocketship sand mold I found at Huntington yesterday into this rendering. I added a textual prompt: “red toy rocketship.” Using the indexes it has about renderings of toys, of rocketships, of the color red, and code that interprets the shapes on a sketch and presumably much more software about making renders of 3D space the Vizcom tool generated the output. I’ll hold on sharing my many skepticisms about the misuse of these technologies for now, but this kind of tool is fascinating.
Listening to my Dad’s stories of Army life in Vietnam is a richer experience with props. Here he points out the fruit cans and grenades used together as boobie trap; and describes how he and his unit used the C-4 plastic explosive from a Claymore as cooking fuel. Never at night; you can’t put out the light if you needed to. The explosive would explode if you tried to extinguish the fire. From the Army Museum.
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19-Oct-2023
Reston Y
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18-Oct-2023
Arjay
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17-Oct-2023
Virginia Tech outsells UVa here in Roanoke. At least in ceramic football snowmen.
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17-Oct-2023
I think this cat doesn’t appreciate the view.
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15-Oct-2023
Return to Salem
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15-Oct-2023
I am going to try to bring some stickers (assuming they arrive in time) of this fella to the @lowerpowered Meeting of the Mats meet in OB on October 29th. In the meantime I merged him with a wave photo I had in my library.#MatSurfing#SanDiego#OceanBeach#Stoke
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14-Oct-2023
Airport next
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13-Oct-2023
Grainy and pixely but it’s fun to see waves I rode on video. I’ve traveled far. I’ve got miles to go!
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12-Oct-2023
“the size of the sea and the sun in my eyes” – today brought to mind Aztec Camera. A fine and perfect day.#stoke
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11-Oct-2023
Waves intense—photos mediocre. Here’s one of my cousin between hectic sets!