Edmund

My wife was reading a children's version of "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" to some of my grandsons tonight, and I heard the line, "Edmund just wanted more candy." And I thought, "Hey, I used to be Edmund." You see, I could down a whole bag of SweeTarts Chicks, Ducks, and Bunnies at once. And not the tiny bag. Yeah, I was Edmund. 

Now, I'm Edmund with diabetes, a CGM, and Mounjaro. 

FREEZE! Or don't...

There are smells you never forget. This week, I met a new one.

So, my brothers and I are starting to work on cleaning out my Aunt's estate (she had no children, so we are handling things; one of my brothers, who lives in the area, is the executor, and my other brother and I are coming in to help as we can). In her pantry was a freezer. Full of food. Which apparently hasn't worked in ... untold months. That freezer, it's a full-blown lab experiment of mold, insects, and who knows what else. And it's quite an odor factory.

The pantry it's in? It's basically a large storage room, but the door OUT of the pantry - the door to the carport - was blocked by shelves and storage drawers. The other door into the pantry from the kitchen is too narrow to fit the freezer through. So, that leaves moving the shelves and storage drawers in order to get the carport door open in order to remove the freezer.

And a lot of work.

Stop Trying to Delete the Universe

Hey you, stop trying to annihilate the universe

A perfectly normal banana in a perfectly normal lab, definitely not emitting antimatter.

Apparently we’re all walking around as low-yield antimatter emitters. Bananas, humans, your dog — everyone is quietly spitting out positrons thanks to potassium-40 decay. It’s not enough to vaporize your kitchen, but it is enough to make you wonder:

"Wait... if positrons annihilate electrons, aren’t we slowly deleting the universe?"

If you want the science behind this, CERN has a great explainer on why everyday matter (including bananas) emits tiny amounts of antimatter.

This is how my morning started. This is also how I accidentally spent the next several hours reconstructing the entire thermal death arc of the cosmos with Copilot, one increasingly unhinged question at a time.

Because once you start asking whether humans are slowly erasing electrons, you inevitably end up here:

Experiments in an "AI Movie Director"

Just for fun (I guess?) I'm attempting to build an autonomous, fully AI-driven movie director/studio. And, for now, attempting to run it completely on my EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER SC BLACK video card (Nvidia 2060 Super, 8GB VRAM). I have generated SOMETHING... but it has a long way to go. But... it's a tiny step in the right direction! 

Here's the first "output" of the first "scene" of a movie it called "The Shallow End" (no audio):

Yeah, that's not exactly... Hollywood quality. It was supposed to be this scene:

INT. SUBMARINE - TIME

EXTREMELY CLOSE on Jack's eyes as they flutter open. The camera cuts to Jack's disoriented face, his eyes scanning the dark space.

JACK

(painfully)

Wha...?

Jack's gaze fixes on the steel walls, his face twisted in confusion.

JACK

(whispering)

Where...?

Jack's fingers flex, searching for something to grasp.

JACK

(more urgently)

What's going on?

The camera cuts to the submarine's walls, showing the dim, flickering lights casting long shadows.

A faint, eerie whisper echoes through the submarine, growing louder.

JACK

(panicked)

Hello?

The whisper intensifies, sounds of creaking metal and machinery overwhelming Jack's cries for help.

Jack's face contorts in desperation as he slaps the walls, then searches for a way out.

JACK

(pleadingly)

Please...

The whisper reaches a deafening level, the submarine's darkness seeming to close in on Jack.

FADE TO BLACK.

But, hey, it's something. Something bad, yeah, but something. 

Eventually the goal is to make a fully autonomous, OpenClaw AI agent-controlled video production house, running (as much as possible) off local LLMs and ComfyUI on my old 2060 Super 8GB card. (Yes, it's a tight squeeze for 8GB, but I'm determined to see how far I can push this card before it gives up the ghost.)