Random Thought Thread

Maybe I can literally ghost-write it.

 

Lmao. Grab some machine learning and use it on your other works. What comes out will most certainly be unique.

 

Remember this computer generated Harry Potter?

 

I should understand this but I don't.

 

There are algorithms and machine learning software out there that pumps out novels, based beforehand on previous works. There's one that wrote out a harry potter novel after being force fed the series. You can do the same. Grab machine software, put in your previous works, and get the output and use it as a novel.

 

Can't sleep.

Tomorrow (today really) I have a meeting at work.

An actual live meeting.

I'll be seeing my coworkers face-to-face for the first time in over 14 months.

I don't even like most of these people, the last year has put very little stress on me.

But still, it's keeping me up like a kid the night before Christmas.

Or a dentist's appointment, I don't know.

 

Tag your writing, mine is audacious, thoughtful, and richly-detailed.

 

Enchanting and haunting at the moment.

 

I just bought a ‘berry bircher’ for my dinner, without any real idea of what it was. Turns out it’s this weird yogurty, overly thick porridge type thing. Weird but nice.

 

You should now wrote a story featuring the main character Barry Bircher in celebration. His superpower is identifying trees. Like The larch.

 

The Larch!

 

I love it when things like that happen.

A couple of years ago I became curious to know if I qualify for membership in Sons of the American Revolution. I contacted the local chapter and, within a couple of days, I received an e-mail from someone with attachments showing that my paternal grandfather was, in fact, a member. So, yes -- I qualify. And the hard part of the legwork is done. If I deciode to pursue it, all I have to do is show that my father was his father's son, and that I am my father's son.

 

I think I might be eligible for that. I know I have some relation but it might not be directly lineal.
I could join the Sons of Confederate Veterans tomorrow though. I won't but it's nice to know I have the option, I guess.

 

Apparently the names of certain products can’t be copywrited. Such as McVities Jaffa Cakes, meaning if a supermarket made their own version they are perfectly entitled to call them Jaffa Cakes, logic being Jaffa is simply a type of orange and cake is a common term anyway.

So how did Apple and Orange manage to copyright their names?

 

A weird random thought, I admit, but I’ve just noticed one end of the main wooden beam in my ceiling stretches over my stairwell and, more worryingly, that it would be perfect for suicide by hanging.

Seriously, though, no cause for concern. I just have a rather twisted imagination.

 

They didn't copyright them, they trademarked them. For whatever reason, McVities didn't trademark the term 'Jaffa Cake'.

 

Last night I dreamt I was struggling to catch my breath. I think it was probably triggered by the conversation I was having with a colleague about having received a text from the NHS asking me to book an appointment for a COVID jab and the fact I was debating whether or not I was going to bother.

 

Headline of the Day, from The Onion:

Sackler Family Feels Full Impact Of Opioid Epidemic After Seeing Spot On Tarmac Where Private Jet Used To Be

 

I am so tired of the phrase "getting back to normal"

 

also "new normal" and "unprecedented."

 

Finishing off with: "I double-dare you, motherfucker!"

 

So @Malisky —which mask is yours? The one that says "One Bad Motherfucker?"

 

What a wonderful place Earth would be, if it wasn’t for the human race.

 

And yet. Without the human race, Earth would be meaningless. What would the concepts of 'wonderful' have, without an observer?