PROMPT: Advice

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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

“Never argue with a stupid person. In the end, they’ll still be stupid, and you’ll just be frustrated.”

PROMPT: Energy

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What things give you energy?

Food and air, mostly. Ultimately, the Sun, I suppose.

PROMPT: Favorite Album

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What’s your all-time favorite album?

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

PROMPT: Topics

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Which topics would you like to be more informed about?

I’d like to know more about the capabilities and limitations of AI, a rabbit-hole that I have only recently stumbled upon, but which I am tumbling down hard. Particularly, how to best use it for language acquisition as I am currently learning Chinese and would like to increase my literacy so I can open myself up to a whole new world of books.

I’m also curious about pratfalls and physical comedy all of a sudden.

PROMPT: Without Music

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What would your life be like without music?

Decidedly less funky, and the consolation that I would no longer be caught humming embarrassing earworms, like Sweet Caroline, would be thin.

PROMPT: Celebrate

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How do you celebrate holidays?

Well, if someone else is doing fireworks, I’ll go see, but I value my fingers and hearing too much to DIY it. But there is nothing like fireworks on Easter to warm the heart. Or on Arbor Day, or National Salsa Dancing Day (March 11th, mark your calendars. Also, don’t confuse it with National Salsa Day — honoring the spicy condiment on May 1st.) Nothing says holiday like fireworks.

PROMPT: Cooking Fail

Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.

A blunder once in a while does not rise to tragedy. I burn toast on a regular basis. Think about that. It’s the most rudimentary culinary activity imaginable, and I fuck it up at least weekly.

To be fair, I think my toaster might be a North Korean imposter, part of a plot to undermine the Western Capitalist world one ruined breakfast at a time.

PROMPT: Lesson

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Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.

Few things in life matter as much as they feel they do. Almost nothing is perilous, while many things feel as though they are. Don’t let illusory feelings keep one from living boldly.

Or, as the Epicureans liked to say, “What is painful is easy to endure.”

PROMPT: Foods

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What are your favorite types of foods?

Those that are authentic to wherever I am at the moment. [Nothing fancy, but with nutritional value.]

PROMPT: Walk or Run

How often do you walk or run?

Daily. I don’t live in an aquarium (thus allowing swimming as the predominant mode of transport,) nor am I a potted plant that stays where I’m set. Also, flying is out of the question, except in an airplane.