That last part sounds possibly redeeming?

Arok: Lehrer, “The Elements”
(Duet with Smiley. Showstopper.)

Conscientious objector! Jeez, John.

Most people don’t know what an LLM is. It’s not a human-like voice *on top of* a problem-solver. It statistically generates human-like replies; the statistics are sophisticated, but it is literally nothing more than an autocomplete system. There’s nothing else inside.

“A.I.” is Automated Imitation.

It was the load-bearing Bowie.

Man, my dreadnought is so big that I wonder if a parlor would be better for me.

I cleared off my desk yesterday. I hadn’t done so since at least February, when I bought the first guitar, and a lot of guitar stuff was piled up among various stacks of paperwork. I sorted it all out and found places for everything *except* the guitar picks. So: I made a place.

This desk is CLEAN.

We do make our own cranberry sauce, though: cranberries, orange juice, water, sugar, boil.

See “Orange Cranberry Sauce” on this page. Instead of covering the pot, we leave it open and stir until all the cranberries have burst, eventually just smashing the stragglers. We’re weird about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m pretty sure I’m of a slightly earlier vintage than yours. Being the oldest one in the team chat is a regular thing, yes.