Dan Lovejoy

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Enterprise Architect, reluctant Okie. Also a pretty good home cook and baker. World’s Okayest dad and husband.

Kindness above all.

Trying to be an encourager here and everywhere.

I read a lot. I tell myself I read widely, history, biography. But the truth is, mostly SciFi. (A LOT of really good SciFi.)

Cover photo is an attempt at DallE-2 AI-generated art with the prompt something like "Totoro as a short order cook at Waffle House."

Favorite emojis:😍,👍🏼,😳,😱,🙄
Favorite Languages:English, español, français, 日本語(少し)

Had a very odd, disturbing response from #midjourney today. Marked as sensitive for that reason. #generativeart

Prompt: a surveillance still taken from a video of a worker in the process of slipping and falling in an office breakroom --chaos 75

Pre-storm clouds this morning. A severe, but not very severe storm blew through right after these clouds this morning. We are right above the dot for Edmond. #okwx #weather

My job is just getting too weird. I have no desire to learn and then explain quantum to computing to executives.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/overview-what-is-qsharp-and-qdk

"Well, let's start with special relativity..." sigh...

Introduction to Q# & Quantum Development Kit - Azure Quantum

Learn about the Q# programming language, the Quantum Development Kit (QDK), `and how you can create quantum programs.

I asked #Midjourney to create "an award-winning close-up photograph of an oscilliscope. Its screen is displaying a line drawing of a cloud." It didn't do that -- at all -- but I adore these images..
#generativeart #AIArt #MachineLearning
Playing with print-on-demand. Made a shirt with a reference so obscure, I’m pretty sure I’m the only one who will ever buy it. @ubikandtonic #Pynchon
#Nintendo's rewards structure is utterly opaque and the rewards are ... less than rewarding.
This is really fun. Install the Block the Blue plug-in and then visit Calacanis, Musk, or any of that ilk, then visit any of their tweets and get a flood of blocks...

Golden syrup is a common #baking ingredient in #British recipes (and in the Commonwealth) but it's very hard to find in the US.

I found a recipe for #Anzac biscuits I wanted to make, then I looked up golden syrup. It's also easy to make. So I made it.

Then I looked at the recipe for Anzac biscuits. It calls for TWO tablespoons.

Spammers aren't even trying anymore. Hit rate is apparently sufficient even with this piss poor effort. 😠