i hope mark k's roof holds up!

my disaster prep plans are moving my car from the subterranean level of the garage to the above ground level

and im gonna go walk in the park during the storm, and try to talk my gf into walking with me

I was playing with the new Bard image creating feature that was just released. (Similar to midjourney or Dali 2 etc...)

create a picture of a guinea pig riding a dinosaur at a county fair


create a picture of a filthyvermin playing poker with a large stack of chips in front of him

I had a similar experience with the Microsoft image generator, it refused to make most of what I asked for, even though my requests were completely innocuous.

Even when I tried to substitute a description for a name (eg tall pale mid-30s white woman singing instead of Taylor Swift) it balked.

Completely unusable.

lol at ai trying to protect me from my own name

and the pig riding the t-rex reminds me a tweet i saw, that i can't find. but it showed pics of dinosaurs mating, like t-rex, and brontosaurus and whatever... like it just doesn't work! and it said "someone is lying" dinosaurs are not real!

yeah, that's it! someone is lying!

mark, they're giving away FREE sandbags are fire stations

Perfect for your indoor sandbox

Thoughts and prayers LA peeps, remember if it gets too bad you're more likely to find someone who built an ark in Orange County.

Wash it away and start new

Here in this hopeless ****ing hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away
Any ****ing time, any ****ing day
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay

it's dry right now, but i can feel the danger! it's coming!

The sun is shining!

Mother Nature just softening you up before going all Old Testament

The sun is gone! I think it's almost time for Moses to enter stage left.

they said 10 feet of snow and 100 mph winds in the mountains!

it's pouring here, and it's just getting started

Interesting data point I learned about driving my Tesla in tonight's rain. I just got back from dropping my daughter off at school. (about 75 miles each way) It was pouring the whole time.

The Tesla used 36% more battery than on an average drive. Who knew rain and water on the road affected rolling resistance so much.

i feel like i learned a lot about efficiency riding my bike as my main source of transportation. i would get tired! it was hard!

people in cars use their brakes and accelerate waaaaay too much. a good example is stepping on the gas to get to a red light. total waste. on my bicycle it seemed obviously wasteful to peddle to get to the red light just to stop and wait. so i'd never accelerate or use any extra energy to get to the red.

and on hills, it's a waste to accelerate down the hill, just to stop at a red light at the bottom. so i'd stop my bike at the top of the hill, and wait there for the light to change, then i'd speed down the hill and have all that momentum on the other side of the light.

in my car im very reluctant to step on the gas to get to a red light. sometimes people behind me will get very angry as i'll be going about 5mph for half a block with no one in front of me, rolling up to the red light.

i feel like this should be taught in driving courses. think how much fuel is wasted by all the drivers in the world.

On electric vehicles, when you decelerate the car uses the motors to brake and puts the energy back into the battery. Also why electric vehicle brake pads last forever.

right. but still some energy must be lost in the transfer. it can't be a perfect recapture system

and most cars are still using gas and regular break pads

True. It's probably around 70%

Listened to David Guetta - Love don't let me go today and felt old.

It's more than 20 years old.

When I think about how much of the music I listen to is 40 or 50 years old or more it is definitely depressing

40 year old music today is from 1984. 40 year old music in 1984 was from 1944.

when i was 13 years old in 1984, music from 1944 sounded ancient to me, like hank williams or something. i can't imagine 13 year olds today think of madonna or michael jackson the same way i used to think of hank williams

80 yo Joni Mitchell's Grammy performance was inspiring. And Both Sides Now is eternal.