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ChatGPT Tried to Explain Me
After years of conversations about technology, history, memoirs, civic issues, creativity, and absurd humor, I asked ChatGPT to describe who I am. The result was a detailed portrait of an archivist, community-minded technologist, storyteller, and observer of systems, people, & preservation. Read More
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100 Word Stories: Prompted Royalty
When royalty arrived for a heavily guarded family portrait, they expected cameras, lighting, and nervous smiles. Instead, they discovered modern photographers preferred artificial intelligence over actual photography, while snipers watched from rooftops and Secret Service agents secured the cyberpunk studio. Read More
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Front Royal Prepares for Royalty
Front Royal transformed almost overnight for the royal visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Between security fences, parking restrictions, and excitement, the community turned an international event into a uniquely small-town blend of chaos, AI comedy, and curiosity. Read More
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Artsii Ribbon-Cutting
I attended Business After Hours at Artsii in Front Royal while the town buzzed over the upcoming visit from the King & Queen of England. Between networking, ribbon-cutting, royal jokes, & parking chaos, the evening captured a lively snapshot of community life. Read More
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The Next Digital Threat Isn’t a Virus
We’ve learned to avoid suspicious links and untrusted downloads. But what happens when the risk isn’t code—it’s influence? Not loud or obvious, just a quiet shift in how feedback, facts, and confidence shape what we believe is true. Read More
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Time Badger Energy
After navigating unclear pay period rules and manual PDF submissions, I built a simple browser-based time keeper in an hour using AI. It runs locally, exports JSON, prints cleanly, and removes friction without adding complexity. Sometimes boring software works best. Read More
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On Being Smart Without Feeling Smart
I’ve never been sure how smart I am. Instead of chasing a number, I treated years of conversation as data and asked an AI to reflect it back. What emerged wasn’t a score, but a shape—uneven, contextual, and human. Read More
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Trust, Art, and the Machine
AI music isn’t just changing how songs are made—it’s changing who we think is making them. As virtual performers emerge, the real conflict becomes trust, authorship, and narrative, not sound, forcing us to rethink what it means to connect with an artist. Read More
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Timeline for Virtual Consciousness
Experimenting with an LLM, I fed it my dystopian notes about EEG tech and virtual consciousness. It produced “The First Borrowed Step” and a fictional robot gospel, transforming loose timelines and questions into unsettling, scripture-styled world-building that expands my future. Read More
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The Bard of Bizarre
AI Music Over the summer, I experimented with a few services that create music and vocals when you supply lyrics to a generative AI. I tried Sono, but had poor results. Eventually I found a service called Riffusion, which has since been renamed to Producer AI. I found it entertaining as I experimented with different… Read More