I’ve pretty much switched to Mediterranean as well. Not easy in the Midwest but it can be done.

An interesting article. Thanks for posting it!

Another feature length AI production that came out of China, this time in the visual style of Harry Potter: Link to video Can still recognize that it’s AI generated, but in more subtle ways. In scenes with heightened emotions, the AI frequently errs on generating facial expressions that are overly dramatic (if human actors do it, we’d call it “over the top”). But gone are the scene-to-scene or camera angle-to-camera angle inconsistencies that used to be fairly frequently noticeable in previous (like, two months ago) AI productions.

The idea of them giving a peace prize is ridiculous.

@AndyD said: the amazing mobility at that age. According to the comments in the YT video, Rubinstein was 88 when this was performed with the London Symphony, and it was aired on PBS in 1977 to celebrate his 90th birthday. Wow!

Yes, it reminds me I feel old. I've had many such reminders lately. I had a trip and fall in the dark on concrete. I landed on my lower left rib cage with my hand protecting my head. I tore and pulverized muscle tissue from my left shoulder to where my ribcage ends. The palms of my hands are bruise. My left hand bend backward to a severe angle. I've been in pain for a week and counting. It's so wrong to realize that my almost uncanny ability to catch myself when I fall can only last for a finite number of times moving into the future. My trustee and I had what I'll call a difficult conversation on Saturday, all the result of the fact she created a needless drama that was mind boggling in the pointlessness of it. I did what I was asked to do when I was asked to do it. She refused to follow one note of explicit instructions (again, she asked for a list of explicit instructions containing agreed on information sought) the reason being she wanted to do it a different way. She didn't think to get a bank check and take care of it when she was at the bank on Saturday, and was remiss in not buying physical checks for the trust account, as it turned out. She then insisted on me giving her information I didn't have so she could use the bank's auto generating check feature. She told me she was not going out of her way for me again (it never happened in the first place), berated me about my situation (completely inappropriate), and accused me of metaphorically beating her ("I'm not your punching bag") in a way that was bizarre, not at all apt, and offensive. I had to run down some facts with her and tell her to keep her judgmentalism and accusations to herself in the future. I used nicer language but with the same meaning. She's 15 years younger than me; she has the time (apparently) and the energy to act this way. We agreed on "next steps" (if barely) but she can't be talking to me this way. It can't be "a thing." She'll know what it feels like to be 60 when she gets here. She's in for a rude awakening.

My first thought was-- more creative than what? I still don't think the term-- "artificial intelligence" is well enough defined and still think this new term is problematic.

I don't know about this one, of course, but there were a lot of places like that Hawaii. Always, you could smell the mold by about the time you got 10' from the front door.

"But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated."-- Mik

Good grief.

Such a tough problem to have.

@Mik Already looking for a new clinic. The doc has prescribed a form of eyedrops that the pharmacy cannot order. It is no longer made or something like that I assume. The pharmacy had notified the doctor's office. Have called the clinic's hotline twice. They " will call you back within 24 hours", nope.

I love this time of year, too! I love berry season, which has started here. Been grazing on serviceberries for the last week. Bumper crop. Also looks like I'll have good raspberry and black currant crops. There was severe dieback on one of my two red gooseberry bushes, so that crop will be much smaller than usual. Here are some tomato recipes. We need to get ready for those pups! I have tons on the vine. https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/photos/tomato-salad-recipes Corn and tomato salad: [image: 1382541354925.webp]

@CHAS said: The Hydrogen powered Mirai.https://www.toyota.com/mirai/ Get your own little Hindenburg. I'd love to! But anything with this level of technology will be expensive. My car didn't arrive today and might not until Monday or Tuesday (it is insured as of last night, though). It's old school-- normally aspirated internal combustion with a mechanically geared automatic. It has an electrical system of course but not "electronics" in the modern sense. It has hand crank windows if I recall. I'm excited but have always thought hydrogen had great potential.

So I heard him talk about Gaza. He said his position is Israel shouldn't be given weapons but should be sold them if they follow the applicable laws. He said nothing about the fact Israel doesn't follow the applicable laws. He said nothing about the fact Israel alone does not allow its nuclear program to be monitored by the relevant international agency. He said nothing about the fact that AIPAC is a lobby for a foreign agent and, again, refuses to follow our law by registering it as such. IMHO, his moment on the political stage arrived and has since departed. Again, JMHO.

Yeah, it's a scary topic. I won't regale everyone on a Saturday night with the horrible facts about it I have filed in my memory.

They know how to cook in that part of the world. Ask me how I know. The New Deal FTW.