Category: Humour
Something funny or a humorous perspective on some topic or thing.
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The Gazebo
Ah, fair Thornhill, a village so picturesque it would make a postcard jealous. There on the edge of the precipice of Windy Hill park, named for the gusts that seemed to have a personal vendetta against umbrellas, a great mystery was unfurling. The city workers, who generally could be seen occupying their days leaning on…
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Imagination
A big thing in photography is the notion of pre-visualization. That is, you see a scene or something in front of you and you imagine what that might look like as a photograph. One could imagine all sorts of transformations, even as simple as what it might look like in black and white. Having said…
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AI and the End of Humanity
There are many expressing concerns about the ascent of Artificial Intelligence and the effect on the arts, manufacturing, work, life styes, and more broadly on humanity [1]. At the nub of many of the concerns is the question whether a machine can be creative, or does creativity lie wholly within the human domain? I suspect…
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800 Kelvin Degrees
I recently published the following to Instagram: Yesterday I became one of those people who wear those massive all enclosing sunglasses, sometimes called “coverups”, that completely cover the eyes and edges, preventing any stray light from getting in. They are large enough so one’s regular glasses can fit underneath. I had cataract surgery. The natural…
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High Altitude Objects
in: Humour
It seems High Altitude Objects — HAOs — are a common occurrence. Another, the second in a week, was shot down yesterday. CNN has talked in terms of a fleet of these things, although to be fair, it has not been confirmed that this most recent object was of Chinese origin and thus part of…