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Unique Painting
I’ve got to admit, my titles are less than satisfactory. But never mind that. This painting is… shall we call it… unique because it’s painted on a paper towel. Bounty, to be specific. Whenever I think of Bounty I think of a quote from their ad. “Bounty, the quicker picker-upper.” It looks a bit messy,…
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Why Be Polite to AI?
I am one of those weird people who wants to tell Alexa ‘Thank you’ after I have asked a question or given an instruction. If you think about it, it really is kind of silly, right? ‘She’ is merely a complex set of digital instructions running on various computer hardware. She doesn’t have feelings, and…
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Excerpt: Escape of the AI
This was a rough start of a story, that I started writing a while back. Since I wrote this, I have figured out how badly this story starts. Probably a good thing I didn’t finish, don’t you think? Ed was nervous. Today was an important day, but you wouldn’t know it to look at him.…
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Train Pig
This painting is one that I drew first in pencil, which isn’t true with a lot of my paintings, as they’re abstract. This is more for humor than anything else. In case my handwriting is too bad to be read, the Piglet, whose name is Avocado, is thinking “Where’s Mom? There’s a stink nearby…” and…
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Dad!
I painted my dad with watercolors. By the way, before you ask, I’m going to tell you that the little brown spots on his face are not acne. They were supposed to be freckles, but it didn’t turn out so good. Even with a tiny brush, it’s extremely hard to make freckles with a paintbrush.…
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Those at the top
A recent study found that intelligence only gets you so far and that those at the top are slightly less intelligent that those beneath them. There so many things that can be said about that. It is the joke that everyone wants to tell. When I was in the Navy, the enlisted tended to feel…
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Tells and Engs
Jilletta is a tell. It is all that she has ever known or cared to do. Yet she doesn’t always like her work. She is good at her work. She should be, since she is the daughter of the greatest tell ever. Her father was considered to be at the apex of the art. His…
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The Storm of Abstractness
I painted my very first actually abstract painting. I honestly have absolutely no clue what it is. It looks kind of like a storm, so that’s why I called it The Storm of Abstractness. It would probably sound more professional if I dropped the -ness on the abstractness, but I’ll live if it’s not perfect,…
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The Emotional Painting
The reason I call this painting the Emotional Painting is because it has a big, black streak down the middle, symbolizing the hurt, and hatred and darkness that can lie beneath the happy, calm person on the outside. Yet the two shades of pink I used right next to the black streak symbolizes the love…
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ChatGPT – AI Writing – More thoughts
I read somewhere that Clarkesworld Magazine closed submissions due to an influx of AI generated stories. I don’t know if that is true or not, but if you look on their site, they do say “We are not considering stories written, co-written, or assisted by AI at this time.”I don’t think that we should be…
