A random mental walk.

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Disney Advertisement / ChatGPT

Billing itself as the place "Where Technology, Imagination and Innovation Collide" it seems that an unintended consequence of the collision was a grammatical displacement.  
A link on the NY Times website lead to Disney Advertising (https://www.disneyadvertising.com/technology-innovation/).  Just a brief scroll down where Disney touted its "strategic approach" to "quality measurement providers" they demonstrated a woeful inability to master common English language advertising idioms, e.g., partnering WITH more than 100 ..." was garbled.
It is unlikely that the AI program ChatGPT would create such an egregious grammatical error.  

Somebody paid good money to setup that web site and play for the graphics. How can people, professionals in their field, make such stupid errors?

And lest someone repeat a Grammar Nazi accusation with overtones of superciliousness, let me add that when I notified Disney Advertising there was a typo in my subject line.  It happens.

Friday, January 27, 2023

Knots Palomar

I found this video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCkOQpjbn8k).  It made me wonder whether I should learn a knot a day.  Is there a benefit?  Perhaps I should just find out an efficient way to tie stuff down on top of the car.

I'm expecting that in a few weeks one of the techs will take a last fond look at crates full of old extension cords, video connectors, and such and ask me if I want them.  I'll be unable to say no.  What then?

Perhaps the Fine Arts department will have a need.  Time to check with them.

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