Tired and lethargic. Not enough sleep? Inhaling weird things? Just emotionally exhausted?
It's not drafty in here anymore and the heat stays once we get the heater on, but the weather's turned cold and so it's still pretty cold when we don't have the heater running. Also, right now everything's a bit empty because we moved everything out, so that probably doesn't help the heating.
Trying to sort out storage solutions, but getting B1 to be involved in them is the current problem. She doesn't like the cloth boxes I got. She'd like some hard file-like ones. And so begins the hunt for file boxes that fit in a KALLAX or EXPEDIT. I mean, we could do with a few more of those in any case.
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Saw a really good twitter post that recommended we call them 'neural networks' not 'artificial intelligence' because they're not 'intelligence', artificial or otherwise and, frankly, stupid humans just don't comprehend that.
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Permie group isn't going so well. I think we burned a few committee members out and scared a few more off, and the current President is, well, not great at peopling. Great at environmentalism, but she can be a wee bit daunting.
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The number of Twitter posts I type out and then delete per day are legion.
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Last week's![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
friday_five:
1. What is your work/school commute like?
Right now, it's WFH almost all the time, so it's really easy. Up and across the corridor!
When I have to go in to the office (in the next city over) it's a 5am start out the door. When I used to work in the city, it was a 6am start to reach the city by 7:30 so I wasn't in the middle of rush hour.
2. What did you want to be when you grew up? Has it changed?
A writer. No, it hasn't really changed. I still want to be a writer, but I think I missed the window for becoming an author (the last two decades) and now with neural networks (AI) all over the place, I think it's unlikely.
3. What is your weirdest work/school/project related story?
I don't feel like I have any interesting stories. If I think of one, I'll put it in the comments.
4. What is something you're closely familiar with that media always gets wrong?
*snorts* I've been in IT for nearly thirty years. One learns to handwave movie tech. Like, seriously, HANDWAVE.
Also: Australia, Australians, living in Australia, the whole lot in fact!
5. Describe the stuff on your desk/workspace.
A simple table, I've had it for 25 years, chipboard, but solid enough. A laptop in the middle of it, screen on a pedestal, mouse, sound system - USB 'mice' whose heads lift to show the speakers - a gift from an uncle...ten, fifteen years ago? A fluoro light with a bendy neck to the right shines up on the yellow wall - 'Gold Rush' is the paint shade according to Dulux, and beneath it are a zipper bag made by a quilter with a bunch of pens in, my TA-DA! sewing bag, a couple of bags of dried fruit, and my bar of 85% chocolate. A pile of scribble papers are to hand on the left, along with an empty water bottle, a Stanley measuring tape, two tooth floss dispensers, and the 'switch' for all the devices so I can swap between my personal laptop and my work laptop.
It's not drafty in here anymore and the heat stays once we get the heater on, but the weather's turned cold and so it's still pretty cold when we don't have the heater running. Also, right now everything's a bit empty because we moved everything out, so that probably doesn't help the heating.
Trying to sort out storage solutions, but getting B1 to be involved in them is the current problem. She doesn't like the cloth boxes I got. She'd like some hard file-like ones. And so begins the hunt for file boxes that fit in a KALLAX or EXPEDIT. I mean, we could do with a few more of those in any case.
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Saw a really good twitter post that recommended we call them 'neural networks' not 'artificial intelligence' because they're not 'intelligence', artificial or otherwise and, frankly, stupid humans just don't comprehend that.
--
Permie group isn't going so well. I think we burned a few committee members out and scared a few more off, and the current President is, well, not great at peopling. Great at environmentalism, but she can be a wee bit daunting.
--
The number of Twitter posts I type out and then delete per day are legion.
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Last week's
friday_five:1. What is your work
Right now, it's WFH almost all the time, so it's really easy. Up and across the corridor!
When I have to go in to the office (in the next city over) it's a 5am start out the door. When I used to work in the city, it was a 6am start to reach the city by 7:30 so I wasn't in the middle of rush hour.
2. What did you want to be when you grew up? Has it changed?
A writer. No, it hasn't really changed. I still want to be a writer, but I think I missed the window for becoming an author (the last two decades) and now with neural networks (AI) all over the place, I think it's unlikely.
3. What is your weirdest work/school/project related story?
I don't feel like I have any interesting stories. If I think of one, I'll put it in the comments.
4. What is something you're closely familiar with that media always gets wrong?
*snorts* I've been in IT for nearly thirty years. One learns to handwave movie tech. Like, seriously, HANDWAVE.
Also: Australia, Australians, living in Australia, the whole lot in fact!
5. Describe the stuff on your desk/workspace.
A simple table, I've had it for 25 years, chipboard, but solid enough. A laptop in the middle of it, screen on a pedestal, mouse, sound system - USB 'mice' whose heads lift to show the speakers - a gift from an uncle...ten, fifteen years ago? A fluoro light with a bendy neck to the right shines up on the yellow wall - 'Gold Rush' is the paint shade according to Dulux, and beneath it are a zipper bag made by a quilter with a bunch of pens in, my TA-DA! sewing bag, a couple of bags of dried fruit, and my bar of 85% chocolate. A pile of scribble papers are to hand on the left, along with an empty water bottle, a Stanley measuring tape, two tooth floss dispensers, and the 'switch' for all the devices so I can swap between my personal laptop and my work laptop.
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Also, I'm pretty sure we will continue to have authors even now that AI is here. There's no such thing as too late for something you're passionate about. <3
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And the comment about the author thing is more "finding someone to give you a go when the margins are getting thinner and neural nets are churning out pablum - but very edible pablum - will be more difficult than ever" than "neural nets will take over our creative avenues".
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