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I know this isn't a humor site, but the three comments above were worthy of any comedy writing team. Result? Instant, involuntary, and un-stifle-able laughter. Thanks!

Ahhh! That's great. Thanks!

Indeed. This seems like it's in the uncanny valley of can do vs should not be able to do. Delightful but strange.

Thanks! I'm gonna try it out. First, though, I think I'm going to add an exorcist to my contacts list. This is honestly the closest thing to magic I've ever encountered.

Okay. Now I'm starting to wonder if folks who worry about AI taking over are onto something. Well, not really... yet. But color me absolutely flabbergasted. Thanks for the explain.…

Can someone give this completely ignorant old fellow a description of what the author is doing in this article? What is the initial drawing being done with? What is this stable dif…

Thank you for mentioning excalidraw. That's pretty tempting at $6/mo if paid yearly -- yeah, I know I can use it for free. To be able to produce a quick sketch on any computer, any…

There are two types of people in this world (well, at least two): Those who dream of underground living spaces or secret hideouts/tunnels, and those who don't. Count me among the f…

An aside about the dream of farming. I'd always heard it subtly implied that my maternal grandfather, born 1899, and early on, a farmer in Minnesota, was not much of a farmer, beca…

It's been a long time since I read My Antonia. Loved it. If memory serves, though, wasn't the main male character quite the self-made man? Again, it's been a while. Beautiful pictu…

Couldn't agree more with the last two paragraphs. Web standards purists will trot out a reference to some standard and point out the imagined (and terrifying) consequences of makin…

That was my first reaction. I tried clicking the wiki link, though, at the top of the github page, and from there to "Bird's Eye View". Pleasantly surprised.

"... strategival disadvantage... " I thought at first you had invented a clever new word combining strategy and survival. Then I realized that v is just very close to c on a qwerty…

What a beautiful site. So easy on the eyes. Thanks.

"Unfortunately, it's not easy to make an easy personal website today. Personal sites take so much work to design , and most feel stale because they don't have dynamic content like …

Those dog teams they use in the Iditarod Race seem to be able to cover distances that would do man or horse proud. I don't know how dogs would do pulling a sled in a more temperate…

re: dragging a decent load My father, born in 1930 in Minnesota, told of watching farmers bringing out a team of horses to help pull stuck tractors out of the springtime mud -- it …

I really, I mean really, really like the slender ones with the almost white bark, and the limbs that branch off with the skin-like wrinkles on their undersides. The trunks and lowe…

Wow. That was a very good read, and it had an ending -- precisely your point, I imagine. Thanks!

Most of the time, no. There are generally far more bodies offered than needed. I was surprised by this when my brother asked about it (for his future dead body) when we were prepar…

XOJO appeals to me, it's free for non-commercial use, and very reasonably priced for commercial use. The user community seems nice. Free Pascal/Lazarus seems nifty and capable, but…

Just about anything. Go to Project Gutenberg, pick a book of plays, or short stories, and just start reading. Be forewarned, though. Chekov doesn't do endings (for the most part) a…

Force myself? That's the last thing I have to do. I can't start reading it again, because I know I won't be able to put it down. But I do look forward to a third pass through the b…

Geez! What a couple of bossy little tyrants! Don't do this! Don't do that! Ouch! The question was aimed at Non Programming Professionals . I thought my answer was thoroughly non-pr…

Yep. I like that approach for simple personal projects (the only kind I do). Sometimes I just append a date -- myHotNewIdea_9jul2022.txt Same idea, though.