I’ve found the perfect gift for dog lovers everywhere! It’s a calendar called “Dogs Pooping in Beautiful Places” and will only set you back about $11 bucks. It’s exactly what you’d expect — pooping dogs with a backdrop of 12 different landscape scenery locations. 馃檪
I didn’t catch any of my hounds in the act, but when escorting Queen Dharma off the deck this morning at dawn, I did get a scenery photo — and it’s absolutely GORGEOUS today in southern Indiana.
AI doesn’t poop regularly.
Utilizing a snowy photo that I took at some point over the past two days, I loaded it into PhotoShop. I then asked AI to create a black Labrador pooping in the snow. My request was denied because it wasn’t within the perimeters allowed. PhotoShop’s AI refuses to do pooping anything or anywhere.
I provided the same request to ChatGPTs image creator and it thinks pooping is ok. But… only if the poop is snow and not actual brown stinky dog turds.
Not calendar worthy.
If I want to create my own calendar and make a million bucks, I’m going to have to travel with my doggos to different locations and prompt them to drop grumpies on the ground at each place. Traveling with those three would be worth much more money unless my calendar was more specific — like dogs pooping in Jackson County Indiana’s beautiful places — and that would narrow my potential customers considerably.
I need to think of a different side hustle and simply buy one of these calendars already available. 馃槈
Now you know: After admitting responsibility for over 12,000 deaths in the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge, Kang Kek Iew (aka Comrade Duch) asked the war crimes tribunal to acquit and release him. They did not.
I guess when the cold weather advisory was lifted I expected a little bit of warm weather. But what did we get? You guessed it! More snow…
It was light snowfall, didn’t last all that long, and it didn’t really make a huge difference, but good grief! Enough already!
Take a deep… very deep… breath…
I have some FB friends that are Trump supporters — and others that are totally flipping their ever-loving shit. I get it! I do. But it is what it is. Trump IS the president — yours and mine if you live in the good ole’ USA — no matter if we voted for him or not.
It seems to me that Trump is fulfilling the promises he ran his campaign on. Since he was elected based upon those promises, nothing he’s doing should be a surprise, right? Sure, there are things you can do if you oppose certain actions taken by any president — contact your elected representatives, peacefully protest, stay informed, support legal challenges by donating to organizations like the ACLU… etc. But the biggest thing you can do is to exercise your voting rights.
Posting ugly personal insults to others who don’t believe the same as you isn’t going to change one thing.
Really smart people that I respect can sure haul out some inappropriate language in a public forum when it comes to politics. It makes me sad to see personal friendships strained over views on federal government issues and national elections.
Rather than get worked up about things I can’t change — and because the weather here is total crap — I turned my energy to the kitchen and made baked Ziti!
It tasted great, but the sauce turned out pink. It sort of looked like vomit and I probably lost my Betty Crocker in Training badge over this one. 馃ゴ
Now you know: Before the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, NASA management genuinely believed that the chances of a catastrophic failure to the Space Shuttle was 1 in 100,000. By the time the Space Shuttles were retired, they had a catastrophic failure rate of 1 in 67.5.
Sitting at my desk in the family room/office I can see the horizon to the west. I looked out to see one of the most gorgeous sunsets and remembered to be thankful. I grabbed my trusty phone for a photo through the window, but it simply didn’t do the sky justice.
There’s a path cleared of snow and ice from the door to the dog’s part of the yard, but no path to the back deck that would let me take a photo. Determined, I took my decrepit butt out in the frigid air and stepped up the 8″ onto the block of ice I had to tread across. I risked breaking a hip, but I think it was worth it. 馃槈
No lava in the Ville.
I turned just a bit more to the north to grab another photo. Once I pulled it in PhotoShop to resize it to share here, I noticed that the part of the yard that’s straight ice (after the rain washed some of the snow down the hill), has a reflection of the sky. It only LOOKS like lava.
Now you know: The T4 Program was a Nazi German euthanasia program that forcibly killed the physically or mentally disabled, the emotionally distraught, elderly people and the incurably ill. The death toll may have reached 200,000 or more. Initiated by Adolph Hitler in 1939, it was discontinued in 1941; however, the killings continued covertly until the military defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.
Today it rained all day long. It flatted the snow in some places, and cleared it off in others.
Tonight’s temp is right at freezing and tomorrow is forecasted to be an average ole’ gloomy, cold day.
But Monday will be brutally cold.
We’re under a cold weather advisory here on the outskirts of the Ville. The alert runs from 7:00 PM tomorrow to 10:00 AM ET on Wednesday morning. Per Weather.com: “The dangerously cold wind chills as low as 20 below zero could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes.” You read that right, kids, 20掳 below zero!!
I’ve had my winter… and now Mother Nature can simply send it somewhere else. I’m done.
Today’s “did you know” is about Lincoln Logs.
I remember Scott had these when we were kids and I loved building with them. I had plastic cows, horses, and pigs that complemented my masterpieces perfectly. The only downside was that I always had to box up every piece EXACTLY like I found them or my favorite brother would cry to Mom. 馃檨
Other notable things my brother had that I did not — and that he was made to share with me… Spirograph, High Gear board type game, mad scientist kit (complete with slides and a microscope), and GI Joe dolls (that were always coming around my Barbie, Skipper and Francie). We each had our own etch-a-sketch and View-Master — but I pilfered all of Scott’s round cardboard reels of pictures.
What games/toys did you have as a kid that you remember today?
Now you know: Lincoln Logs, the children’s building toy, was based on an earthquake-proof construction technique used in a hotel in Japan and was patented by John Wright, the son of the hotel’s designer, Frank Lloyd Wright.
This is not a Democrat VS Republican post. It’s not! I promise.
I’m a gamer.
Some like to crochet or knit; others love to read. There are those that work word puzzle books and those who play card games. Me? I love playing video games. I started 100 years ago and I’ve spent who knows how many hours on Everquest and World of Warcraft. I couldn’t name all the games I’ve played but I can name the one I’m playing now.
Path of Exiles 2
Path of Exiles 2 is still in beta but already has a huge following because of its long-running predecessor, Path of Exiles (1). I’m currently playing PoE2… and so is Elon!
But does Elon cheat??
Elon live streams himself playing the game and many have picked up on why they believe he paid for someone else to level his character (boosting) while claiming how great he is for doing it all himself. Elon has bragged that he’s one of the best gamers in the world and his PoE2 character is hardcore. Hardcore is a choice you make on character creation that means if you die… even one time… you’re done. You start over.
This game is brutal, you guys. Elon supposedly leveled his character to 97 (of 100) before dying. For perspective, I created a normal character, have reached level 82, and I’ve literally died way over 100 times. Elon was 7th on the leaderboard for millions of players before his character croaked. But was it actually him that leveled this character like he says… or was it some dude in India getting paid by the richest man on the planet?
My first concern regarding Elon was when he dated Amber Heard — and now this. 馃檮
I think it’s awesome that Elon’s playing PoE2. I also think it’s lame when anyonesays they’re great at anything if they’re not. Thing is, I LIKE Elon Musk… and I sure hope those accusing him are wrong.
I respect authenticity more than I do success. What say you?
Today is FRIGID! 馃ザ
Still trying to figure out what kind of bird is in the photo above. A red head and chest with a cream underbelly combined with dark wings and back doesn’t produce any search results to help me identify him. But whatever it is… it’s a brave little dude to be out and about this morning. BRRR!
Now you know: Brian Acton was rejected by Facebook for a job in 2009. And that same year, he & Jan Koum “took a chance” and co-founded WhatsApp together. Then in 2014 after amassing 450 million global users, they sold WhatsApp to Facebook in a deal that reportedly made both of them a multi-billionaire.
