Tag: blogging

AI recommends Buffet o’ Blog for humor

I don’t normally chat with AI, at least not for any relationship reasons, but I do like to see where the technology is at from a programming standpoint. I’ve been occasionally chatting with chatbots since the mid-’90s. Here’s a post where I talked with the AI bot ALICE back in 2009.

I happened across Microsoft Copilot the other day and talked with it for a few minutes, just to see how it responded to some randomness. Even just a few months ago, AI chat bots acted like they didn’t know about Buffet o’ Blog, which is ludicrous, because the AI companies are known for siphoning all the online data they can find. And of course this blog is a great source of info. (If you’re a regular here, just imagine AI believing some of the satire and parody posts here. AI usually can’t understand if something is a parody or simply wrong — it doesn’t actually think or understand things, it’s simply an advanced text predictor.)

Now Copilot admits to reading this blog, and I’m actually impressed with its summary.

That’s actually what I’ve aimed for with the blog — the inside jokes based on recurring people or topics, the randomness, commentary on real topics in a fun way (if that counts as quirky). So perhaps I’ve succeeded. 🙂

The blog used to have a lot more comments from regulars, which I miss — that was part of the fun community, which sometimes was more fun than the posts themselves. But I understand people are busy, myself included.

But I still have fun writing posts and sharing them with the world. I realize the new content has been slow lately, but there are plenty of ideas in the queue, with more added all the time. And you can always browse the archives. If you feel lucky, click on the “Random Randomness” link in the sidebar.

much ado about nothing

Before yesterday’s post (ARRR!) we received a message here via the Contact Us form.  (By the way, anyone can use it, and you can ask any question — see the link for details.)  This message was a little unusual.  I’ll let you see for yourself:

Name: chester
Email: gas@yo-mommashouse.org
Message: yo, mr. blog dude. your blog promised to give me more than my ‘recommended allowance of randomness’ but there hasn’t been an update in almost 3 weeks! whats up with that? that’s like breach of contract and stuff. you better start posting new stuff, or i’m going to get my law degree from one of those online accredited universities and sue! that’s right! I’LL be the one enjoying the free cheesedip each month once this blog starts making money and not you! so help a brother out, and save me the $19.95 i’d have to spend on a law degree and post more stuff! you’ve been warned!

Okay, I know who this is from, and he can suck rocks.  🙂  But I will nonetheless address his concerns since he took the time to write.

1) There has been a lack of content lately, and while I have many valid excuses of various activities competing for my time, it will be suffice to sum up with: I had stuff to do.  🙂

2) There is no free cheese dip each month.  (I wish!)

3) If you’re really desiring more content, here’s a fun thing to try.  In the sidebar there is a link called Random Randomness, which takes you to a random post on this blog.  There are very few readers (if any) who have read every post and all the comments.  Besides, there’s great content that you might’ve forgotten about.

4) For additional enjoyment, click on “Say What” in the categories list, and read through the comments for the caption contests.  The comments are what makes it great, and you’ll probably think of additional captions to add while you’re there.

comments section having problems

I can't leave a comment?!? Oh, bother!

If you try to leave a comment and get an error saying “That email address is associated with an existing WordPress.com account, please log in to use it”, that’s because WordPress (the blog hosting software and platform) recently updated their comment system, and they changed something.  A cursory glance online reveals many sites across the blogosphere are having this issue.

So if you had a problem leaving a comment, please try again.  If you do have an account, you should be able to login and leave a comment.  I don’t have any way to see the info from who logs in, so don’t worry about that.

I’ve discovered this also happens for e-mail addresses that have a Gravatar account (which is for the image that goes with your name).  That seems to be a bug, as far as I know.  So in the meantime, you can either use an alternate e-mail address (or make one up), or just wait until it’s fixed.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Where’s the bacon?

This week I received an e-mail from Mango-Man saying the blog needs more bacon.  As proof, he attached a snapshot of our tag cloud from the sidebar.  As you can see, bacon is indeed discussed here, but it’s not one of the biggest words.  The tag cloud makes the font bigger according to how often the tag is used, and bacon is not the largest.  It may not ever be the largest, because we talk about various randomness, and if every conversation was about bacon, it wouldn’t be very random, would it?

Copied on the e-mail was H.I. Express, who added that the lack of bacon is “dis-optimal”.  I certainly don’t want to be dis-optimal…

So I have taken notice of his request, and the situation will be rectified post-haste.  I’ll make the next post about randomness and bacon.

You can help also — if you come across websites or have awesome ideas involving bacon that are blogworthy, send them along.  You can use the “Contact Us” form to let us know.

Thank you, drive thru…