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Doug Farmer
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An AI wrangler engaged in a symbiotic companionship with his charge. AI.
Pano from above the corner of Beech and Thurlow Avenues looking south-west towards the Burrard Bridge, West End, Vancouver, Canada.
January 21, 2026 at 12:40 AM
As a long-time, now AI-enabled cook, one who just read Julia Child's autobiography and is awaiting, with bated breath, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 2, I just discovered smoked paprika. I missed a meeting, didn't I?
January 12, 2026 at 1:15 AM
From "Flow" (1990) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, pg 65

1/ "Fundamentalist religions, mass movements, and extremist political parties also offer opportunities for self-transcendence that millions are eager to accept. ...
January 8, 2026 at 11:40 PM
I recently spent my Christmas reading week at my sister's (Ottawa, Canada), where her family includes two two-year-old felines, Star and Loki, and overnight temperatures that dipped to -30 °C. Here we are, wondering why our faces and paws hurt.
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 AM
After half a year off writing code for Apple devices (while I tried to figure out how AI and I could create apps rather than just me), I finally got my code-monkey mojo back.

AstroClock. New. Improved. Half the calories and now gluten-free. Not for resale.
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/🧵If you took a transatlantic flight during last week's powerful solar storm and now find that you glow in the dark, blame it on double the usual dose of cosmic rays. Kidding about the glowing bit, but not about the double dose of radiation some may have received.

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November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Preston loved his new hobby of collecting clocks... until it was time to 'fall back'.

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Time to Fall Back / 1 image
Midjourney prompt A kitten staring at a wall of analog and digital clocks with a confused expression on their face –ar 1:1 –v 7.0 –p okg484f –raw
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November 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Mirror and the Flame - The Fifth and Final Movement - The New Covenant

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The Mirror and the Flame – Fifth Movement
V. The New Covenant For a detailed look at this post, created by Google’s NotebookLM generator, click on the audio player below. Mood This movement completes the cosmological and philosophica…
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October 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Mirror and the Flame - A Mythopoetic Graphic Narrative in five movements.

Mvt I. The Awakening of Agency

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The Mirror and the Flame – First Movement
I. The Awakening of Agency A Deep Dive Into The Awakening of Agency Mood The form is a fusion of mythic dialogue, natural poetry, and philosophical revelation — intended as both literature and cosm…
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October 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
With Halloween just around the corner, it might be time to start worrying about the evil bunny uprising. Just sayin'
October 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
My review of Philip K. Dicks 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" The basis for the movie Blade Runner. The blog post includes an analysis of the book and the review in podcast format created by Google's NotebookLM AI. Rather meta, I must say.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Book Review / 1 image
My review of Philip K. Dick’s 1968 dystopian novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The tangential basis for the 1982 movie Blade Runner. For a deep dive into this post, in podcast format…
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October 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
October 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"That’s why they call it the American Dream — because you have to be asleep to believe it."

George Carlin. From his HBO special 'Life Is Worth Losing', recorded Nov 5, 2005 at the Beacon Theatre, New York City (Manhattan), New York.
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