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Is it spilloff, spill-off or spill off? Anyway...

...answering that question is not what the thread is for.

High school reunions…
I went to my five year reunion. It was at a country club and we all dressed up. I don’t remember much about it except I was upset because I still had bad skin and had to switch my choice of dress.


10 year reunion was basically a beer bash at a picnic grounds.
Bunch of yuppies standing around trying to impress each other while the rest of us drank and danced.
Then Rod (Toner?) streaked and pretty much brought the ones with their noses in the air back down to earth. Bless his heart.

Skipped all the rest of them until 45th, in 2022. I worked for one of my classmates by then at a retirement job in a greenhouse. Absolutely loved it and we enjoyed talking about our old pals.
Talked each other into going (mid class club hall I guess you’d call it) and sat together with other friends.
One of the rah rah chippy girl classmates got up to do a speech and said (simpering voice) ‘High School was the best years of my life’

Monday Paul said to me, isn’t that sad what Tina said? And I said I was thinking the same thing…

But that’s rah rah chippy girls for ya…

Answering two of my own questions:
My dream rail trip is also the Orient Express.

I've never knowingly used AI. But somebody sure has ben using it on me, tracking my purchases and preferences.
It seems like every time I scratch my butt, I get emails and Facebook pop-ups about butt scratching.

Later

MFS62 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2024 4:45 pm Answering two of my own questions:
My dream rail trip is also the Orient Express.

I've never knowingly used AI. But somebody sure has ben using it on me, tracking my purchases and preferences.
It seems like every time I scratch my butt, I get emails and Facebook pop-ups about butt scratching.

Later

Sure you have. Have you ever autocompleted a word on a digital keyboard/phone? That's AI. It's just a smaller scale version of Large Language Models. "In the cloud" just means it's on someone else's computer. "AI" just means computer program. Ever taken a picture on your phone? Chances are an "AI" algorithm touched it up, fixed the contrast, changed to night mode, etc. I know you love your TikTok filters. Those are all "AI".

I never use autocomplete. I prefer to type the word myself. Why should someone tell me what I'm going to write?
Now that I think of it, when I ask my wife what she'd like me to order (take-out) if I type "chicken", the phone suggests Chow Mein and I accept it. I guess that's an example of tracking my preferences.

And, I said "knowingly" , so if the camera touched up the picture for me, thank you. But I didn't ask for it.

So I guess I do use it, sometimes.

Later