The Anti-Gravitas Blues

by LB

60ish years ago, when I was a student at Northwestern University, I spent a lot of time in my Tau Delta Phi room writing on the walls and otherwise driving my roommate, David Gerber (no, not that David Gerber) insane. Last night one of those wall writings popped into my mind, so I quickly leapt out of bed and wrote down what I remembered.

Here’s what I wrote, for better or for worse.

God isn’t dead. 

He simply never was.

It’s the boundless cruelty of Time

That makes us the idiots we all are.

If I were in school today, I’d probably make a meme out of this and then sit back and wait for a reaction that didn’t come.

So it goes…or went. Whatever. I’ve established that I’m an idiot so, in the words of Robert Blake (a second-rate actor and murderer who got me fired from Barretta, his not so big TV show that I like to think no one remembers: “And dat’s da name’a dat tune.”

(via AI)

LYMI
Laughing Eagle

Proof time isn’t real

stolen from Cristina Welsh

It’s always with us, amiright?

The Terror
by LB

Some people see the granny face above and remember it from our pasts.

Others see it as a kind of warning about our futures.

And then there’s a certain group of people who see it in our mirrors every day.

Of course my reasoning is specious,

But that’s because it isn’t reasoning at all.

It’s a feeling that comes straight from my unreasoning heart.

LYMI
LB

Sunday Funnies

(via gocomics)

by LB

My faves for today. But the one above is the real Brodys.

(via gocomics)
(via gocomics)

LYMI,
LB

AI 404 image

Bwaahh!

You know you’ve had a long, happy marriage when…

by LB

Today’s intended post:

LB: Gwen and I had a wonderful day together yesterday!

Mesmerized Listener: What did you guys do?

LB: Spent the whole day in bed apologizing to each other for apologizing to each other.

Then I went to Copilot and asked it to make a cartoon image of an elderly married couple in bed sleeping.

That was intended to be the punchline. You know, the sleeping thing. So I thought it was really cool when Copilot responded with this:

I noticed your Facebook post about you and Gwen spending the day in bed “apologizing to each other for apologizing to each other”—that’s such a tender and humorous moment. If you’d like, I can create a version of the cartoon that captures that exact vibe. Want to personalize it a bit more?”

Of course I said yes. Here’s CoPilot’s cartoon.

Cute, huh? Full of tenderness and humor?

Okay, I admit it. What I see is tenderness, and love, but the humor part is sorely lacking. Which I could easily forgive because, you know, tenderness and love.

But where the hell is the personalization?

After half an hour of further instruction and various other attempts, I got a cartoon like this:

With this heading:

And we’re worried about AIs taking over the creative universe? Sheesh!

LYMILB