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Put your hands on the wheel

Let the golden age begin

Away, I’d rather sail away

Like a swan that’s here and gone

You were clued in

You knew just how this thing would go.

I’m not lost

I’m somewhat off the way

Such a dubious soul

And a walk in the garden really wears me down

90º ’neath the trees where it’s shady

110º in the hot sun

Carefully, carefully with the plates

We must away ere break of day

I’m tired of walking

I wanna ride

I’m not expecting to grow flowers in the desert

But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime

All I see is a young old man with only a dream

Can’t look in her eyes, she’s out of my league

Being in the room

Eric Schmidt invites graduates to speak, but not anywhere he has to listen to them.

I’m not from here, I just live here

Grew up somewhere far away

Guess you’d expect to catch the crew rhymin’

Never let you down with the stereo sound

With AI, are we automating? Or are we delegating?

We keep trying to automate with LLMs. We’re actually delegating, and pretending otherwise makes us bad at it.

A man cuts in half

Just like he snaps a pencil

Ours is not to reason why

These are the days of a different paradigm

I Can’t Stand the Rain

Against My Window

I’m Too Sexy for Milan

No Way I’m Disco Dancing

Your thin paper wings

Cats are gathering outside your window

Lovin’ a free and a feelin’ spirit

Hugging a tree when you get near it

I wanna know what you got to say

Your mind and your experience call to me

Amazon Strolls Into Mordor

They ignored the obvious risks, but now the risks have become consequences and they’re looking for someone else to blame.

You Got What You Wanted

It’s not going to stop until you wise up.

Handful of senators don’t pass legislation

Over and over and over again, my friend

Step Right Over and Watch Me Put It Down

Ain't got no chickens, ain’t got no rats.

Mercatr, and what it’s there for

Using AI to build an anti-algorithmic music recommendation engine

Sitting on a Cornflake

Waiting for the van to come

You See How Deep the Bullet Lies

Let’s Exchange the Experience

The Words She Knows, the Tune She Hums

You must have seen her dancing in the sand.

The Greatest Adventure

Let go of the moment that life makes you hold.

Collaborate and Listen

Will it ever stop? Yo, I don’t know.

Going up or going down?

Life can be such a pain in the butt

They’ll never understand the kind of fun I’ll find

People may smile, but I don’t mind

I hate to wake you up to say goodbye

The taxi’s waiting, he’s blowing his horn

1969 Had Terrible Lyrics Too

In defense of Jack Harlow and “Lovin’ On Me”

This is not a test

We can dodge debris while we trim the tree

Go back, Jack

Wheel turning around and ’round

Spread your tiny wings and fly away

…and take the snow back with you where it came from on that day

From the Land of the Ice and Snow

Our only goal will be the western shore.

Art sources

Good places to find free(ish) artwork for blog posts.

Ghost (and back again)

After years of running static sites, I had a brief flirtation with a hosted service.

Black Friday 10

I need a Veg-O-Matic! I need a Garden Weasel!

What if the cure is worse than the disease?

Serve me up some pretty, pretty people

AnERUOK, RUOKAnE

You were struck down; it was your doom

Ce que j’ai fait, ce soir-là

Say something once, why say it again?

AI wants to do your work. Ask it to teach you instead.

What happens when you ask AI to slow you down instead of speed you up?

The 🛎️ing words are awfully strong

Some of these they play over and over and over on the radio…

Just stay home and play synthesizers

You know you‘re not in high finance considering second-hand underpants.

How to pronounce GIF

Possible spoiler: I don’t have an easy answer for you.

Doctor Who and the Highest Stakes

Doctor Who has come a long way in sixty years of storytelling. Perhaps it has come too far.