I grabbed an old Obon festival flyer from 2014 and told chatgtp to:

"look at this image and give me variants in the style of classical japanese artists and graphics designers (be sure to include hokusai and Ikko Tanaka). be sure to tell me about each style. upscale and include the original with some designer words that are plausible"

at least two of these don't look like AI to me and are perhaps better than the original. but a non-designer is likely to pick the more busy ones.

https://files.catbox.moe/5p5m9v.png

I still miss Groove.

So much this. It was a great piece of software that was once super useful to me... 'twas circa 2010. I was a wee project manager at a small marketing + design agency in Goa---emailing "big" files (via relatively anaemic broadband) was our bread and butter; raw images, multimedia, Adobe, Corel, MS Office stuff.

One day, I tried to demo Groove in our weekly company-wide morning show-and-tells.

I had a few of our "usual suspect" files synced between my laptop, and another computer upstairs. And then I tried to show how I was making edits on one computer, then (dramatically) running up to the other one, and doing something else, or undoing / overwriting the previous edit.

The magical-to-me seamless, and fast updates didn't make much of an impression on the crowd. Perhaps all the huffing and puffing was not the best look while trying to sell something that was supposed to make everyone's life easier :,)

Anyway, I kept using it and was so hopping mad when it got "embraced, absorbed, and extinguished". Software that "just works" and works really well is such a rare thing.

and now we have sharepoint.

I wonder if in the age of AI it's a lot easier to resurrect old software that we miss. Not easy, but a lot easier?

Berkshire HQ has exactly 27 people. so I think those comments about culture are spot on. but the issue of "what would walt/steve/warren do?" will eventually bite you in the ass.

so I have to get a mac from mainland china to opt out? #Weird

they use either a propane flame and/or an electric heating element.

better for what?

have you met most people? I can't really recommend it.

And you think yourself different from “most people”?

Everyone is “most people” to someone. The arrogance in your comment alone makes me put you into the “most people” category.

I miss 24hr kinkos

recent 99pi episode:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/672-transatlantic-fib...

this guy is a huge dork. I love it. I read to the end and was treated to his analysis on BSG main batteries.

https://acoup.blog/2019/11/29/collections-where-does-my-main...