Author: Ben
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2024 Updates
I did not die in 2023. Optimistic about keeping that streak going in 2024. In order to encourage that sort of behavior, I’ve committed to checking in everyday. It’s a proof of life sort of thing. By committing to daily posting, I’m accomplishing several things at once. Will I make it a whole year without…
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Thanksgiving Vacation Day 1
I’m on vacation for the Thanksgiving holiday, and decided to spend some time learning about generative AI in Photoshop. If you work long enough refining what the AI prompt first generates, you can eventually produce some really specific and fairly impressive results. I asked it to give me “classic holiday cartoon scene, thanksgiving vacation, mad…
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The Park Belongs to Everyone
We saw this charming visitor as we were walking through Forest Park late one night. It seems that there are deer in the heart of this city. They wait until everyone is gone for the night before venturing out. He looked at us like we’d wandered into his living room, which was both fair and…
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Let’s get a habit going
I’ve built this site, thought out the goals and the logic of this whole thing, and have left myself no choice but to actually create something. This is deeply unfortunate. I’d prefer to do nothing at all. Doing nothing is fantastic. It comes highly recommended. I try doing nothing all the time, but I’m pretty…
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I saw this sign on a recent walk. I love everything about it. I love the color, I love that it’s just sitting on the ground for no apparent reason, and I love how when selecting signage someone thought to themselves, “You know what this building needs? A hardcore haunted hotel vibe. Can the sign…
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The Promise
On April 30th, 1993, a guy named Tim launched the World Wide Web into the public domain. This is commonly seen as the birth of the internet, which is a lovely thought, but isn’t strictly true. The internet had existed for a full ten years prior to that, but had no common standard, which is…
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