Yesterday I wrote a post about ChatGPT. Today, for those who don’t know, I want to explain what ChatGPT is. I know this is in the wrong order, but I think I’ll have more to say about it tomorrow. ChatGPT is a variant of the popular language model GPT-3 developed by OpenAI. As the name…
I quit Twitter when Elon Musk took over. I know my one account means nothing to Twitter or to Musk, but I just couldn’t support a racist, misinformation peddling, conspiracy theorist. I was never a heavy user. It was fun to go on and chat with friends, read Star Trek Minus Context, and things like…
Happy New Year! 2022 was a mixed bag, but I suppose that all years are. I’m still processing what I want to say about all of this, but for now, a quick resolutions post. In 2023, I resolve to: 1) Be a better support to all of my friends, family and loved ones, and 2)…
2022 was not my best year. Most significantly, I had a major depressive episode that it took me months to crawl out of. That messed up my student teaching in the spring making me have to redo it in the fall. I’d never heard of anyone failing their student teaching before. I kind of wonder…
It’s late on Christmas Eve Eve and we just got our tree up. We should have done it earlier but just haven’t had the time. It’s a nice tree. Small but full. It’s covered in colored lights, homemade decorations, and silver baubles. We also hung the stockings, put some garland on the railing, and placed…
There are different kinds of traffic lights. The worst are simply on a timer. There’s one in Hartford near where I work that is green for about a minute. Then, it is green on the cross-street for about two minutes, then the walk signal comes on. It doesn’t matter if anyone has to go one…
I tried Wonder Bread the other day. To the best of my knowledge, it was my first-time trying Wonder Bread. It was an experience, sort of. It was unlike anything I’ve ever eaten. So, of course, I wanted to write about it. Now, just to be clear, this was the classic Wonder Bread. The old…
We got our first snow of the season last night. It was the second winter storm, but the first one had mixed precipitation and just left a slushy mess on the ground. This one was snow from start to finish. We only got about three inches, which isn’t a lot, but it covered everything in…
I promised a post a day for the month of December. Today, I’ve got nothing except this post. Well, that’s not really true. I started two other posts today, so I had some ideas. That’s not nothing. But I wasn’t able to finish either of them. It was a busy day, plus I had to…
