Thomas L. Knapp
@knappster
Whatever it is you think you want me to be, I'm probably almost but not quite exactly that. I tend to resist chat messaging unless I know the other party really well. Getting catfished or sold porn isn't something I find interesting.
Never before published (taken yesterday). This is Carl. Carl wants very badly to communicate, but his English isn't very good.
I grew up in southern Missouri, so hacking on Arkansas is second nature.
Sent to me on Facebook. I still don't CELEBRATE anyone's death, but I have to admit to ROFLing.
1/40th of the way there, and you know I'm going to continue this until another 975 of my Bluesky friends sign. Yes, this means you. c.org/jy5LfPDg26
A phrase -- "the Mark of the Boast" -- happened to pop into my little pea brain this morning. I had ChatGPT drum up an image for the meaning it implied to me. Behold:
"Cryptocurrency Analysts Say/Predict" Headlines: Various Sites AI Prompt: Me Output: Google Imagen 4 Fast
Our new house has more SPACE than our old house but fewer ROOMs than our old house, and I like a home office that isn't full of people. So this arrived today (it's from 1990 and was cheap -- I'll make it work):
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?" -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I name my motorcycles. Tank stickers arrived yesterday with this one's name ...
Gainesville, Florida is losing its rainbow crosswalks on Monday because OWN TEH LIBS. Be a shame if sidewalk chalkers recreated them every time they get removed.
Note to @netflix.com: "Raising." The Word You're Looking For Is "Raising."
It usually doesn't occur to me to ask people who they voted for. That's their business, not mine, so unless they just feel like telling me I'll never know, since most of them aren't like me.