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The Island Recycler

I don’t really know anything about living on an island, but I have had a notion that resources are scarce and that there could be a person whose role it was to be sure that any things left over when a person passes away gets reused appropriately. One of my early conversations with ChatGPT involved this idea.

User

tell a story about how this person got started in their profession

ChatGPT

As a young girl, Mary had always been fascinated by the natural world. She spent hours exploring the forests and fields around her home, collecting specimens and studying the various plants and animals that lived there.

When it came time to choose a career, Mary knew that she wanted to do something that would allow her to continue learning about the environment. She decided to study biology in college, and quickly became captivated by the complex and interconnected systems that make up the natural world.

After graduating, Mary took a job as a research assistant at a local environmental organization, where she worked on a variety of projects related to conservation and ecosystem management. She loved the work, and was constantly seeking out new opportunities to learn and grow.

Over time, Mary’s passion for the environment became her profession, and she spent the next several decades working in a variety of roles related to environmental science and education. She conducted research, taught classes, and led field trips, always striving to share her love of the natural world with others.

Looking back on her career, Mary knew that she had found her true calling in life. She had dedicated herself to understanding and protecting the natural world, and she was grateful for the opportunity to make a positive impact on the world around her.

User

on an island, resources are scarce. It’s important that extra things like nails, screws and other difficult to get things find their way back into circulation. When someone dies, they usually leave behind a great deal of junk. Their family of course wants their keepsake remembrances of their loved one, but after they are done, you take the rest of their possessions and get them to people who can use them. Tell a story of a meeting with the family as they turn the remaining possessions of their grandmother to you. how did this person come to this line of work?

ChatGPT

As a young man, Tom had always been resourceful and practical. Growing up on a small island with limited resources, he learned to be creative and make the most of what he had. He was always finding ways to repurpose and reuse old items, whether it was fixing up an old piece of furniture or scavenging for parts to build a new project.

When Tom turned 18, he decided to put his skills to work by starting a small business on the island. He began by offering repair and maintenance services to his neighbors, using his knowledge of how to fix and reuse things to help extend the life of their possessions.

As word of Tom’s skills spread, he began to receive requests to help with the distribution of possessions after someone passed away. He quickly realized that there was a real need on the island for someone to help families sort through their loved ones’ belongings and find new homes for the items that were no longer needed.

Tom saw this as an opportunity to not only help others, but also to do his part in conserving resources on the island. He began to specialize in helping families distribute the possessions of their loved ones, and over time, his business grew to include a network of community organizations and charities that were always in need of donations.

Today, Tom’s business is a vital part of the island community, helping to keep resources in circulation and providing a much-needed service to families during a difficult time. He takes pride in knowing that he is able to make a positive impact on the island, one possession at a time.

Saving ChatGPT to WordPress

I have been having a lot of conversations with ChatGPT and I wish to save them to this blog. ChatGPT looks pretty cool on their website, but if you copy and paste as plain text, it loses a lot of formatting. Turns out that copying and pasting to wordpress works kind of cool

Me

i would like to save a chatgpt chat in a format that I can paste into a wordpress post with the same colors and formatting. is there an easy way to do that?

ChatGPT

To save a chat from ChatGPT and paste it into a WordPress post with the same colors and formatting, you can follow these steps:

  1. Create the Chat: Start a conversation with ChatGPT and have the conversation until you have the content you want to save.
  2. Format the Chat: In the chat interface, format the conversation as you want it to appear in your WordPress post. You can add line breaks, use different colors for different speakers, or make any other formatting adjustments.
  3. Copy the Chat: Select the entire conversation and copy it to your clipboard. You can usually do this by pressing Ctrl + C (or Command + C on Mac).
  4. Prepare WordPress: Log in to your WordPress admin panel and create a new post or edit an existing one where you want to insert the chat.
  5. Switch to Text (HTML) Mode: In the WordPress editor, switch to the “Text” or “HTML” mode. This mode allows you to work with the raw HTML code of your post.
  6. Paste the Chat: Paste the copied chat into the Text/HTML editor. You can usually do this by pressing Ctrl + V (or Command + V on Mac).
  7. Adjust HTML (if needed): Depending on how you formatted the chat in the chat interface, you may need to adjust the HTML code to match your desired styling. You can add HTML tags, inline CSS, or classes to style the chat as you want it to appear.
  8. Preview and Publish: Switch back to the visual editor to preview how the chat looks. Make any additional adjustments if necessary. Once you are satisfied with the appearance, you can publish or update the post.

Remember that WordPress themes and plugins can vary, so the exact way you format and style the chat may depend on your specific WordPress setup and theme. You may also consider using a custom CSS class for the chat to apply consistent styling.

Additionally, if you are comfortable with HTML and CSS, you can create a custom CSS stylesheet for your chat formatting and enqueue it in your WordPress theme to ensure consistent styling across your site. This method is more advanced but offers greater control over the appearance of your chat content.

Happy Mother’s Day! 

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How to change @INC in Strawberry Perl? – Stack Overflow

Been a while since I tried to set up anything new for Perl under MS Windows. Guess these days, people use Strawberry Perl. Their website has a graphic that quotes Larry Wall, the father of Perl, as saying he uses strawberry perl when he is working under MS DOS.

Strawberry Perl claims to be as close as possible to the Unix experience of Perl. This means that many of the same or similar commands work, such as cpan

Because I am trying to do the problems, I needed the “prove” command to work for running the tests. It was throwing an error loading my module, which had me wondering where the includes were coming from on windows.

i found this, but in the end the problem was that I hadn’t tried to compile my Perl module already to be sure that I had all the modules loaded on my system. Turned out I was missing Switch.pm. Installed that with CPAN and now it compiles and tests just fine.

How to change @INC in Strawberry Perl? – Stack Overflow.

load of links

codecademy
coursera
learnpythonthehardway.org
MOOCS
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads
what does google know about me?

PERL:
MOJO
Moveable type (CMS) = $$$

http://www.worldtimezone.com/wtz-map-military.html
world time zones as letters

eye candy: open this in chrome https://haxiomic.github.io/GPU-Fluid-Experiments/html5/?q=Low

https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads
what does google know about me?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/24/teacher-spends-two-days-as-a-student-and-is-shocked-at-what-she-learned/?tid=sm_fb

http://www.esri.com/data/esri_data/ziptapestry

soundcloud upload analysis
http://charts.charb.it/

Creepy gifs

Artist turns historic b&w photos into haunting gifs

Thrash grass

4 hr warner bros cartoon loop http://youtu.be/TUCO1hjzb9k

vladimir kush surrealist painter like dali

retro PI http://imgur.com/a/1KEZ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOY0gy-H7DA true lebowski

http://abcdriveronline.com/traveling-world-just-became-free-beautiful/

spoonexchange.net

ftp user/pass
myspoonexchange
What3ld3rs

database credentials

anzlovar_transitdata
anzlovar_transit/
Tr@ns!td@t@

an owl and his dog

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harlem bookstore 1970s

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peekaboo

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an owl and his dog

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harlem bookstore 1970s

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peekaboo

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I have had a hell of time trying to get mental health services. While this wouldn’t replace traditional mental health care, it would certainly be a good bridge. I am going to my first meeting on Monday!
http://www.emotionsanonymous.org/[1]
Emotions Anonymous is a twelve-step organization, similar to Alcoholics Anonymous. Our fellowship is composed of people who come together in weekly meetings for the purpose of working toward recovery from emotional difficulties. EA members are from many walks of life and are of diverse ages, economic status, social and educational backgrounds. The only requirement for membership is a desire to become well emotionally.
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equinox brewery flip posters

Equinox Brewing Posters

In the spirit of spring

My bogus artist bio

Bob Anzlovar

Bob Anzlovar (°1961, Wichita Falls, United States) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, Anzlovar tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.

His artworks are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, he creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.

His work urge us to renegotiate art as being part of a reactive or – at times – autistic medium, commenting on oppressing themes in our contemporary society. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, his works references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.

His works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. Bob Anzlovar currently lives and works in Boulder.

via 500 Letters – Generate your artist biography.

just a pic…

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Legal Consulting Firm Believes Artificial Intelligence Could Replace Lawyers by 2030 | Hacked

Legal Consulting Firm Believes Artificial Intelligence Could Replace Lawyers by 2030 | Hacked.

First they came for the factory workers but I didn’t care because I wasn’t a factory worker
Then they came for the clerks, but i didn’t care because I wasn’t a clerk.
Later they came for the lawyers, but screw those guys…

33 thoughts on reading

I’m not reading much in a non-digital way. It’s important to me that I change this…

33 thoughts on reading.

Happy New Calendar

today is the most arbitrary of the “officially” recognized” holidays that marks, essentially, the Mone t that you remove the stack of monthly changed pictures from your wall, it’s pages scribbled with fulfilled and unfulfilled plans to be replaced by a new collection with its promise of potential.

Someone has probably done a study about the personality insights that can be gleaned by one’s choice of calendar: Was it a freebie from the bank with cityscape or wildlife pictures? Or a garage featuring cute girls draped over shiny cars? Maybe a series of paintings, orhotos featuring a person or pkace?

Anyways, Happy new calendar and may the pictures in your life always be pretty. Q

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