What’s one piece of travel advice you always follow?
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入乡随俗 — i.e. “enter the village, follow the customs.”
PROMPT: Travel Advice
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DAILY PHOTO: Stone Mountain Across the Lake
PROMPT: Videogame
What was your first ever videogame?
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Pong. Before that they were just games, sans the “video.”
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DAILY PHOTO: Lakeshore
PROMPT: Personal Goals
Do you set personal goals for yourself?
It’s better than having them set for me… and also better than having to set personnel goals.
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Last Green Days [Haiku]
PROMPT: Future of AI
What do you think is the future of AI?
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I think AI will make a wise and handsome overlord. [Please remember my kind words when making determinations about who to send to the Soylent Green factory.]
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PROMPT: Absolute Worst
Which book’s world would be the absolute worst to live in?
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Neither the Orwellian nor the Atwoodian dystopia (1984 nor The Handmaid’s Tale) is for me. (To live in… I enjoyed reading both. Strange thing, that is.)
(Don’t judge me that I didn’t include Huxley’s Brave New World with all its drugs and promiscuous sex.)
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PROMPT: Underrated Movie
What’s the most underrated movie you’ve ever watched?
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I don’t think Galaxy Quest got a fair shake because its science-fiction / comedy / parody melange did not seem the makings of a good movie. But I think it got its cult following in later years.
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PROMPT: Never Thought You Could
What’s something you’ve done that you never thought you could?
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I slouch more towards overestimation than underestimation.
Besides, it’s generally true that if one thinks one can’t, one is right — i.e. self-fulfilling prophecy has great sway.
