Category: First on WP
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Tech in 2023
… the final list. Too much went down in 2023. 🤯 – vijay, nursing a case of sniffles on New Year’s Eve.
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Professions Unsung
Vijay admires professionals who engage in high-impact, often under-acknowledged work, characterized by sacrifices and dedication beyond a typical workday. They express their respect by using a line from Tennyson’s “Ulysses” to prompt Midjourney to visualize these workers: a passionate journalist, persevering scuba diver, diligent archaeologist, and resilient geologist.
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Midjourney on “between a rock and a hard place”
Vijay explored how an AI, Midjourney (MJ), interprets the phrase “stuck between a rock and a hard place.” He experimented with adding “Watercolors,” swapping “stuck” for “trapped,” and removing “stuck.” Regardless of the modifications, MJ consistently depicted open landscapes with rock formations, perhaps suggesting that it interprets the landscape as the “hard place.”
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I broke Midjourney with “a roadmap”
I thought about exploring “roadmaps” as a concept with Midjourney. It did not quite go as planned. I think I broke it!
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Midjourney 2023/10/14: Animals Wearing Robes in Ancient Rome
prompt template I used: “a/an [animal] wearing ancient robes, in Ancient Rome.”
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Midjourney Prompt Engineering: Storybook vs. Sketchbook vs. Watercolors
I found that adding “Storybook Illustration” and “Water colors” allowed the images to be less gloomy. Was it a fluke that qualifiers such “Water colors” produced such effects? I wanted to explore a bit more.
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Midjourney 2023/10/01: The Blue Screen of Death
The blue screen of death is perhaps one of the most recognized error states in tech and pop culture history [wikipedia]. So it only seemed fitting that I tried that as the prompt for the first day of October. To make things interesting, I kept the prompt simple, but applied multiple styles. Core Prompt: “blue…
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Midjourney and Bing 2023/09/30: A farmer in space looking over his crops
Midjourney Prompt: /imagine a farmer in space, looking over his crops, the crops are growing inside a futuristic spaceship. Futuristic, sci-fi, digital art, hyper detailed. Bing Prompt: Generate an image of a farmer in space, looking over his crops, the crops are growing inside a futuristic spaceship. Futuristic, sci-fi, digital art, hyper detailed. A “Days…
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Trying a Coffee Subscription … Dreading it
Subscribing for food is strange to me. In many ways it seems perverse. In a world where people are still dying of hunger on a very, very regular basis, the stability of a subscription-backed food supply just feels wrong on many levels. It gets even more perverse in my head when I consider that it…
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Go on, tell me how “kids fall ill all the time.”
There is a common quip I have been hearing all too often from friends and family nowadays: “Don’t worry! Kids fall ill all the time!” I have run out of patience for this nonsense, because here’s the thing: kids do fall ill (or sick) all the time, but not all kids at the same time…