Weeded my garden this morning and I'm pleased to say, it's doing well. I have quite a few peppers and thanks to my grossly competent wife pointing out my own incompetence, I've finally got snap peas and cantaloupe growing very well.
ZedClampet
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I heard you can sell your extra weed to teenagers.
Damned annoying twits.
You think it's anti-American oppression, but you might enjoy the first twenty seconds of this from the former UK Prime Minister, The Right Honourable The Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, PC (NSFW):
If only I could take his further advice and be less wordy as well.
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My wife has to go to the home office for a couple of weeks, and the kids decided they don't want me to be alone that whole time, so I'm about to have a 2 week LAN party. I'm so happy. As a bunch of Italians, we kind of have an obsession with food, so I'm going to repay them with the best food I can come up with--Zed's greatest hits, plus a selection from local restaurants, and I swear I will not give the slightest damn to how many carbs, fat grams or calories I will be ingesting.
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ha Knoxville police tried to mess up people's plans yesterday. We have a great bookstore here that opened 50 years ago. As part of their celebration, they said that anyone who went to all 4 of their stores yesterday would get $800 in credit. Pretty sweet deal. The catch is that the 4 stores are in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville, TN, and Asheville, NC. If you were lucky enough to start in Asheville or Nashville, you'd only have to drive about 360 miles (and none of the cities are known for their light traffic). If you had to start in Knoxville, there was no easy way to do it, and you were talking closer to 500 miles.
To make matters worse, Knoxville police decided they'd had enough and closed down the access road to the Knoxville store, so you had a huge number of people who weren't going to give up and who knows how many cars parking all over within a couple of miles of the bookstore.
My niece and her husband decided to do it. They spent the night before in Asheville, but it still took them over 2 hours to get into that store and get the process started. By the time they'd made it past Knoxville and were in Chattanooga, the store saw their "passport" and when they had been to the Asheville store and just gave them the credits, so they didn't have to go to the last store.
Hey, between the two of them, they have $1600 of free books coming. Probably worth it. They also sell tons of old video games and game systems.
To make matters worse, Knoxville police decided they'd had enough and closed down the access road to the Knoxville store, so you had a huge number of people who weren't going to give up and who knows how many cars parking all over within a couple of miles of the bookstore.
My niece and her husband decided to do it. They spent the night before in Asheville, but it still took them over 2 hours to get into that store and get the process started. By the time they'd made it past Knoxville and were in Chattanooga, the store saw their "passport" and when they had been to the Asheville store and just gave them the credits, so they didn't have to go to the last store.
Hey, between the two of them, they have $1600 of free books coming. Probably worth it. They also sell tons of old video games and game systems.
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ZedClampet
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Luckiest woman in the world. I compliment her all the time. Why just today I told her she must be smarter than she looks. She also has a surprisingly good left jab that she likes to follow up with a right uppercut.
Zloth
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Wow, shades of Red Lobster here...
P.S. But I thought Clampet was French, accent on the 2nd syllable?? Shouldn't you be eating crepes or something?
ZedClampet
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I guess by this logic you are a Latino since sloths are generally in central and South America?Wow, shades of Red Lobster here...
P.S. But I thought Clampet was French, accent on the 2nd syllable?? Shouldn't you be eating crepes or something?
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The secret to cooking almost everything (not breaded) is olive oil, lemon and salt. Some black pepper and garlic can be added, as well, but aren't necessary. Lime can usually be substituted for lemon.
The first sentence came from a chef friend of mine, and I've discovered that he was, naturally, correct. Fish, chicken, pork chops, and nearly all vegetables can be cooked this way and come out fantastic.
The first sentence came from a chef friend of mine, and I've discovered that he was, naturally, correct. Fish, chicken, pork chops, and nearly all vegetables can be cooked this way and come out fantastic.
Summer vacation has started and I've taken the first two weeks off from work. Time to see if my kid likes any of the co-op games I've chosen.
Or do it the French way and drench everything in butter instead of olive oil.
Or do it the French way and drench everything in butter instead of olive oil.
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…is to remove the plastic wrapping and any metal containers before placing in microwave.
You're welcome.
If you love leftovers, do it the Indian way. Drench it all in molten hot spices and you'll have a whole tableful of leftovers for the week.
Zloth
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Or BBQ sauce if you wish to be more American.
Note BBQ sauce and ice cream do not go well together, so eat the ice cream first.
ZedClampet
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Personally I prefer it this way. I think olive oil tastes better than butter. There are lots of recipes out there, but if you don't know what to do with something, this is a good way to go.
ZedClampet
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I could probably eat anything that wasn't sweet with bbq sauce.
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So I'd mentioned before how I had downloaded Stable Diffusion to try to make pictures on my PC and how frustrated I got and how all the people on reddit basically just use it to create porn with these special trainers called loras.
So to cut out most of the story, I tried again to use it last night and was getting poor results. I was getting ready to shut it down and uninstall it, when on the spur of the moment I typed "nude brunette" and hit enter. I hadn't downloaded any loras, so I wasn't expecting it to do well. I just wanted to see what it would do.
I could actually post the picture it gave me on here without breaking any rules even though technically she was probably nude, but I have sworn never to look at the picture ever again. I'm not kidding at all when I say that the monstrosity it gave me will be burned in my memory for the rest of my life. It was catastrophic. It radiated evil. I've never seen anything like it, and I hope to hell I never see anything like it ever again.
I swear I believe that if I posted the picture online that it would become famous in some twisted way. Horror stories would be created about it. Horror games would use it for inspiration. They might even make a movie. It is absolutely terrifying.
I am done forever with Stable Diffusion.
So to cut out most of the story, I tried again to use it last night and was getting poor results. I was getting ready to shut it down and uninstall it, when on the spur of the moment I typed "nude brunette" and hit enter. I hadn't downloaded any loras, so I wasn't expecting it to do well. I just wanted to see what it would do.
I could actually post the picture it gave me on here without breaking any rules even though technically she was probably nude, but I have sworn never to look at the picture ever again. I'm not kidding at all when I say that the monstrosity it gave me will be burned in my memory for the rest of my life. It was catastrophic. It radiated evil. I've never seen anything like it, and I hope to hell I never see anything like it ever again.
I swear I believe that if I posted the picture online that it would become famous in some twisted way. Horror stories would be created about it. Horror games would use it for inspiration. They might even make a movie. It is absolutely terrifying.
I am done forever with Stable Diffusion.
Well now I have to see it.
ppp
Even the images from actual p*rn AI generators are frequently horrifying. They seem to have to generate dozens of images to get one usable one. The technology is not there yet.
Even the images from actual p*rn AI generators are frequently horrifying. They seem to have to generate dozens of images to get one usable one. The technology is not there yet.
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Never mind. I was going to write a serialized, slow-play Coconut Monkey horror story kind of like the Halloween story I wrote a couple of years ago, but after thinking about it, I decided that it just wouldn't work. For it to be effective, people would have to read every post, beginning to end, and that's just not the way forums work haha.
The center of the story was obviously going to be an evil picture, and I do have a crazy AI picture that inspired the whole thing, but this morning after deciding I wasn't doing this story I thought of another one that I might try to post on Creepy Pasta or somewhere.
One way or another, whether I actually do the Creepy Pasta story or not, I'll post a link to the picture on here eventually so everyone can see it since I did abort a story about it.
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If you are wondering how the story would have worked, the next post was going to be how I decided that I had to look at it again, followed by a post saying that I'd somehow managed to accidentally make it my background picture, followed by difficulty removing it. Things were going to go downhill from there
I'd even considered disappearing from the site for a few weeks after one point in the story.
I'd go ahead and post the story, but a lot of it required you to believe that it was possibly actually happening. And, of course, it would have ended with me posting the picture.
It's kind of a cliche if you know it isn't real.
I'd even considered disappearing from the site for a few weeks after one point in the story.
I'd go ahead and post the story, but a lot of it required you to believe that it was possibly actually happening. And, of course, it would have ended with me posting the picture.
It's kind of a cliche if you know it isn't real.
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ZedClampet
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Oh, one last thing on this. I meant to mention above is that there wasn't going to be anything supernatural. It was going to be basically a series of explainable events that worked together to, in theory, make you start wondering...
I wouldn't have expected anyone to believe something nuts. It may not have worked anyway.
I wouldn't have expected anyone to believe something nuts. It may not have worked anyway.
If this were the case, we'd probably assume you were losing your mind, but not because of an evil picture.
ZedClampet
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Eh, this is the problem of summarizing a story. The way I summarized it is not exactly how it was going to happen.
But I'm done talking about this. It was a poor idea not properly thought out.
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