Well this video (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RzEZYsFOpc) was a delight to watch. The Origin of Every US State Name.
The origin of every US state's name
A few months ago I searched for "100 best novels", confident I would fly thru from a to zed. I am someone who secretly prided himself on having read all the classics when I was young. "yes, yes, yes, read it, boring, yes, so good, easy, yes" until my finger found Little Women where it stopped in its tracks, stood still. Now here I am, intimate with Jo, Laurie, and be rest of them, turning pages as long as they let me. I am 51% of the way through Little Women. Back I go once again ....
Novelist interview-Chuck Palahniuk
While cooking I kept thinking of what
@neiltyson said about the common ancestor of humans and mushrooms being closer than the common ancestor of plants and mushrooms.
I wanted a snack last night so I cooked up a pound of sliced mushrooms in a skillet with minced garlic, a couple splashes of worcester, lemon juice, and salt & pepper. My teenagers came running downstairs and consumed the whole pan in minutes.
It smelled great.
71 degrees F
5mph breeze from the southwest
Whispy clouds racing across the moon
Tree frogs chirping
Listening to my breath
I am here
Here I am
Now
My watch battery was low but I was too tired to walk downstairs and get the charger so I took it off, placed it on my nightstand and prepared to go to bed. A minute later I hear this woman asking if I'm okay. It was 911. My watch, on its own, called 911 and told them that I'd had a hard fall.
Now I'm wide awake. Plenty alert enough to go downstairs and get that charger.
Let's make this a better place than what came before it. Let's give each other a little grace.
It's okay to use large language models (LLMs) like chatGPT to help write public-facing comments as long as it's an accountable human driving and approving the product.
It's 2023. I thought by now we'd have evolved civilization to the level where states no longer go to war, much less murder innocent people, hundreds at a time.
