Let me just preface this post by saying that I’m not a fan of AI. Mostly because I spent too much of my formative years watching Terminator movies, but also because I don’t like that the AI is trained with the hard work of others, be it art or books or whatever. Also, I just read an article about how people who use ChatGPT a lot are reducing their brain power, so thanks but no thanks. But with that said, I had an overwhelming urge to do one of those make-yourself-look-like-a-cartoon-character things yesterday, and it quickly spiraled out of control. My image generator of choice? Flexclip.com. And the source image…
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A collection of the random shit I’ve downloaded to my phone over the past few weeks.
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Meet Bailey, or as I call him, Mr. Bailey-boo. We adopted him yesterday. He’s an Australian Cattle Dog mix and he has those deep, soulful eyes that instantly drew me to him. I first met Bailey back in April. I was attending the Romance in CNY con in Utica with an author friend of mine (she’s great, check out her books here) and a local rescue, Rover’s Do Over, had some cute puppers there who were up for adoption. I saw Bailey there and it was love at first sight. I sat my fat butt right down on the floor and gave him some love and wanted to bring him…
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A couple of weekends ago I made a quick trip to the mountains of North Carolina to see my baby brother get married. It was a very small ceremony on the literal top of a mountain. Like, five miles of switchbacks to get to the top, and the last mile was gravel road. My rental car was displeased, but she made it. And here’s a quick dump of some of my other favorite pics from the day…
