This is kind of a steam of conciousness post, where I start with the state of our kitchen, work in some info on a ChatGPT experiment I did a few months ago and then reflect on how bad artificially generated content is. Too bad we see it everywhere now.

I was planning a nice little post-Thanksgiving wrap up post this week, but I checked my phone yesterday and realized that dispite having my whole family (minus the grade-school twins) together in one place at the same time, I don't have a single picture. For someone with a renewed dedication to documenting his life online, this is a criminal level of negligence.

There's this video that I remember from my childhood. It must have regularly come on right as Saturday morning cartoons were ending. It was the opening bit to Indiana football or basketball games.

This morning, I found a data set with all of the data for Billboard's Hot 100 charts. So I did what nerds do. Ko has started up with the Christmas songs already, so I looked at the most interesting chart history I can think of.

We don't pass too many October without spending a week or two in New Orleans. We welcomed our dear friend Camilla this past weekend for a long day of being tourists. For the nightcap, Camilla and Ko went to the Taylor Swift concert in the Superdome. After picking our girl up at the airport, we dropped off gear at the house where we stayed in the Bywater. We changed and went to brunch in Mid-City (Katie's, yum) and then spent a few hours wandering around the French Quarter.

Yesterday, I went to one of the normal places I go for coffee in the morning. I set my bag down on a table outside, and then I noticed that there was some dried up jelly on the table. I went in, paid for a coffee, and asked the lady for a towel to wipe the jelly. I expected, "Oh, I'm sorry. Let me come wipe that for you," but instead, she just handed me a damp towel.

While we were sailing, we were also schooling. One of the things we did with Kolya is poetry. And of course, poetry starts with Haiku.

This morning, I woke up really early, got busy scrolling through internet garbage, and then ended up waking Ko up late. I drop him off downtown, where a bus takes him to his school. This saves me a good 45 minutes, most of which is crawling through heavy traffic to get in and out of the neighborhood where his school is. So it's very important for me to make the bus.

All of a sudden, the socials for dumb asses are flooded with fake pictures of Donald Trump doing something good for storm victims. I've gotten a good laugh, but can I use AI to create some more?

I have a theory that time travel is already invented -- either now or in the future. In here, I explain why you've not yet met a time traveler.

Some folks have been wondering how the new boat did during her first New Orleans hurricane. Short answer: just fine. She looks exactly like I left her before the storm. But storm-time New Orleans lakefront is interesting enough. Here's a story in pictures. And one little video at the end.

It's been a month back in Baton Rouge and back to real life, and for the most part, it has sucked. We knew we were coming back to some boat maintenance, but our house was a disaster area.