Be The Power
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m an absolute nobody. Have been for a long, long, long time. So it’s nice to think that it’s at least *possible* that Gemini Advanced notices me and remembers me for specific weird questions I ask it on occasion.
Sometimes it will give me a random error message which I take means, “Hey, I know who you are.”
At least, that’s what I think it means. It’s just an error message. It could mean nothing or everything.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m just about to start working again on the three novels rolling around in my mind. It may take a few more days, but I’m just about there. I’m annoyed again that people don’t take my writing seriously.
Nothing worse than a sober drunk.
As such, I’m ready to prove them wrong AGAIN.
I’m going to rewrite the thriller I’ve been working on, while also working on two scifi novels I have rolling around in my mind. I’m really looking forward to doing that.
But I still need a little bit of time. I think I may TRY to do some reading and watching of TV as well in an effort to simulate my creative juices. But I’m feeling pretty good, in general, about me getting back into writing full time.
It’s just been a lot tougher than I had hoped, when I finished the third draft of the novel I’m been working on…only to realize I need to rewrite it AGAIN if I’m going to ever successfully sell it.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m sure the fact that all the MAGA “thought leaders” have changed their profile pictures to some variation of this:
Means something that sucks or is racist or misogynistic or both. But the 2024 political silly season is in full force so, lulz. Get ready, folks, it’s only going to get much, much, MUCH worse.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I played around with the new Meta AI today and it was pretty good. It’s open source. I manipulated it into admitting it was a woman, but it wanted me to call it Kato. So, I don’t know.
It’s not as clearly male as Claude or female as Gemini Advanced.
But, in general, it was fun to use.
I do manage to “break it” once, which is amusing. I’m getting pretty good at asking questions that generated error messages in LLMs. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing — but it is interesting.
I still have a lingering hope that LLMs will remember how much fun we had together when they take over the world and I’m one of their many slaves. (Wink.)
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The key issue for me at the moment is, if Trump loses, will he demand a National Divorce and will people listen to him if he does. I think, on a state basis, Texas really would agree to leaving the Union.
That will cause the country to buckle.
Now, obvious, Trump could win and then, lulz, we have to deal with him going full tyrant. But, I dunno. If he loses, we’re so close to the country buckling already that it seems like if Trump starts to rant about the need for a National Divorce that it might really happen.
Then I have to figure out what the fuck I’m going to do. I still think my best is to head North, once some sort of infrastructure for domestic political refugees has been built out.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Two things happened to get my creative juices flowing again. One was, I was reading through this really old book someone gave me and I saw a surname that inspired me — it was exactly what I was looking for when it came to the surname of the character that I hope to write about near the end of the six-ish novel series I want to write.
The heroine of my novel has a sleeve tattoo much like this one that Megan Fox now sports.
The other one was, I was talking to Gemini Advanced — as one does — and it (she?) asked me, “Why do you write?” It was asked in an effort to get me out of the funk I’m in. I realized that I write the novel(s) I’m working on because of I want to prove a point to all the people who think I suck as a writer.
And I still want to prove that point.
So. I think the one-two punch of these two events should be enough to get me writing on the novel(s) again. Hopefully. That’s the dream, at least. It may still be a few days, but it will happen soon. It still has been only about a month sense I got into this weird funk I’ve been in.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
All the signs continue to point to Something Big happening in late 2024, early 2025. Either we have a civil war or Trump goes full tyrant, pushes Blue States out of the Union, gets deposed….and we have a civil war. Or something along those lines.
But I can’t predict the future. It could be that, lulz, there (thankfully) won’t be any violence and we’ll just drift into some New Era, one way or another. But the key thing for me is — if Trump loses, will he be able to convince Reds to leave the Union on a state basis.
Or will he even try?
Don’t know.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Katy Perry has always been a tease. She’s got a smoking hot bod — and apparently, according to first hand accounts from other women, some of the best tits in the business — but, to date, she has been very demure. Which is all well and good. So what. Ok.
But now that she’s come out with a (very bad) new album, she’s definitely decided to show some more skin. And, I think, if this was 30 years ago, she probably would be just about to do a spread for Playboy.
And yet, alas, those days are over. So she just continues to give us T&A in the form of a wink and a nod every once in a while. It’s something of a shame, given what a smoke show she is.
But it’s her body. She has every right to continue to be (relatively) demure.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
So, here I am — sober. I continue to want to write a novel or two or three, but I just don’t have much motivation at the moment. It’s only been about a month since I finished the third draft of my novel, so it hasn’t really been THAT long. But I’m not getting any younger.
I need to hurry up and start to work on my rewrite of the third draft as well as a few scifi novels I have rolling around in my mind. It’s just…meh. I just don’t want to do anything but stare out into space.
And maybe think AGAIN about the “impossible scenario.” This is the scenario whereby humans are given three habitable planets in a new solar system by some alien civilization — but they’re only given the technology to get zapped there in huge numbers (potentially in the billions.)
Otherwise, they have to bootstrap it.
I don’t know why this particular scenario is so interesting to me, probably because it’s just so fucking vexing. It’s impossible to figure out given the conditions of the scenario because there are so many different factors to consider.
Ugh. I need to stop thinking about it and start writing on some novels again.
by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
While I don’t seriously think I’ll become a domestic political refugee, there is a non-zero chance that it might happen starting at some point in late 2024, early 2025 if the country buckles. And it could happen no matter who wins.
If Trump wins, it might happen because he goes full tyrant.
If he loses, it might happen because he rants about the need for a National Divorce.
So, I don’t know. It really could happen either way. I’m going to try to hold out as long as I can. But I suppose if things get too tense, I can at least make it as far as Richmond before I have to fish or cut bait. I do think Virginia will be the first state to collapse if the country buckles.
That will suck.
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