The Band’s Visit. It was on TCM a few weeks ago, otherwise seems like it’s available to rent via a few different streaming services.

Excellent!

I gor my Ph.D. at age 47, does that count?

@Axtremus said in AI email from a friend:

you still need some human efforts initially to get the machine to write/draw/paint something.

Right, the point of the meme is, let’s use that human effort on creative endeavors, and get AI to do the mundane tasks. I think people are seeing that, at least for now< the promise of AI has not materialized in terms of making life easier, and instead people feel like AI is taking away all the fun things and leaving humans with the short end of the stick.

That’s an over-simplification of course, but that’s the meme.

Dennis Lehane's "A Bostonian (in Cambridge)" is a really good short story that involves TAMERLANE AND OTHER POEMS. I've taught it in my mystery class. I found out about it when it appeared in THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 2022, so it's not just me that thinks it's great.

When I googled it to see if I could find a link where it could be read for free (no such luck), I saw that there are plans to make it a movie.

Ooh good tips, thanks!

Awww!!!!

When I lived in LA we would head for Cottonwood Cove on Lake Mohave for long weekends, camping and water skiing. Fun.

As a kid my dad did not fish, but mom remembered her days riding so we went to dude ranches in the U.P. and in Wisconsin, or we went to visit relatives.

WTG, Janet's family had vacations much like yours, maybe even the same lakes.

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Yep, our camp lantern is LED. The other thing that's nice is that all of our rooms and bathrooms have light colored walls, so a little light goes a long way. Also, Mr SK said he's never letting the car's gas tank get that low again. Actually we were super careful during covid, but we've gotten away from that. And the supermarket, where we also get gas, is so close to our new house, I'm sure he didn't think of it. Oh, and this storm kind of came out of no where, usually we have warning a few days in advance, and then the morning of etc. This one, I happened to be at home (thank goodness!) and I got a notice on my phone and yelled down to Mr. SK "there's a storm warning" and then like 30 seconds after that, the wind smashed into the house, and then after about another minute, we lost power. Crazy.

The quiz was fun! I got 23 out of 30 correct, not bad I guess.

Yes, I did notice a few places where the contrast could be better. But I almost never take my iPad outside, so not a huge prob for me.

There's also an "x" to close a window that's pretty much invisible until you roll a cursor over it on a laptop. And some other buttons that do the same . But overall it seems to be a good skin.

Anybody else experimented with the skins? Found anything you love?

Canine Lyme and leptospirosis vaccines have the highest rate of side effects. And the need for them tends to be regional, so they aren't included in the core vaccine protocols and they get bumped to non-core and are administered when the risk of the disease outweighs the risk of possible side effects. Almost no vets around here do Lyme, but some do lepto even though it's not a very good vaccine. But incidence of lepto is on the rise, so it's better than nothing.

I had Lyme in 2019 after a trip to our Door County house. Lots of deer in the area. Never saw a tick, but a few days after I got back I got the rash on my neck. My PCP thought I had some kind of heat or allergic rash and was going to send me off to the dermatologist, but I alerted him as to where I had recently traveled. He said he doubted it was Lyme but ordered the blood tests anyway. Came back positive big time (doc was pretty surprised at my immune response) and I went on doxycycline for three weeks. My rash subsided by half after the first dose of the antibiotic. Haven't had any problems since. Glad I didn't get chronic Lyme, which can be nasty.

@wtg 😀😀😀

wow!!