ysabetwordsmith

AI is everywhere in the language-learning space, from chatbot "tutors" to my favorite prompt: "Tell me about this story in another language." So I'm learning, as they say, through immersion.

Here's what NotebookLM produced when I asked for its basic "deep dive" on "The Untamed," using only the episode transcripts as a source. It makes mistakes, but I was particularly interested in what it identified as important and why.

Also, it was unexpectedly funny.

(This is actually a Turboscribe transcript of the podcast NotebookLM produced; I've labeled the speakers "Host 1" and "Host 2.")

( notebooklm analyzes the Untamed scripts: reputation vs reality )

silver_chipmunk

After staying up til about 4:40 or so last night (or this morning) I got up at 10:00, made it to breakfast, came back to the room, showered, had the Kid drop by to say good-bye, and get to the ast panel i went to at 11;15.

Went up to the art show again, which was being taken down already.

Then I came back to the room, and took a nap for a couple of hours.

After that I puttered on the computer for several hours whie

mashfanficchick slept.

We went to dinner at the hotel restaurant with Larry.

Then came back here, and after much technical problems, managed to finally Team the FWiB.

Arisia was much fun. I had a great time.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The Kid got home safely.

3. Got to that last panel.

4. Had a good time all weekend.

5. Bed soon.

6. Plans for tomorrow.

Current Mood: tired

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awesomeers

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

mikro

I recently got this cute dress from the thrift store. I was needed something less.... over the top? and this dress has very cute fabric I could style into my regular wardrobe or wear professionally/casually...(I had a job interview). It was only 6.99usd.
Only thing is, I tried it on and it was very baggy, so to the sewing machine for a quick fix!

My mannequin is lopsided for some reason, so ignore that. But here you can see how the elastic thread that was used to give the dress some shape has completely given out. Lets fix that!

So, I shoved the dress and some elastic under my machine and crossed my fingers.

and voila! It has much better shape now and doesn't make me look like I am wearing a sack.
I can't really recommend this method, it would be better if I had thinner elastic but alas, I did not.
and seriously it looks so lop-sided in the photos... but it looks normal on my body!

Current Mood: accomplished

lebateleur

Last week was a pretty good one for leisure media and entertainment.

Games: Gaming group this week! We met at an inconvenient (1+ hour drive) but favorite tavern since there was also a birthday to celebrate. Alas, the games we'd planned to try out (including some recced during

snowflake_challenge) were unavailable, so we played First to Worst and King of Tokyo, and had a great time.

The first is a familiar standard; we mixed things up by eschewing scoring entirely and having the ranker draw only four cards from the deck while the rest of the players collectively tried to correctly order the ranker's preferences, to sometimes hilarious results (one player's partner insisting that they disliked "gift giving" much more than the other three, trivial options, or shocked disbelief at another player's—correct—insistence that their partner genuinely preferred pickles and journaling over ice cream sundaes).

The second, is a familiar group standard but one I had personally yet to play (on account of generally playing Betrayal in the House on the Hill or such instead). The setup is that the players are a group of kaiju battling to level Tokyo. It strikes me as a very Munchkin -or MtG-esque game in that the first several players who look like they have a chance at winning will invariably be leveled by the other players. My low-and-slow strategy got me one victory point away from winning the game, but a bad role ultimately gave the GC the win. Still, not bad for a first playthrough.

And now, a brief digression so I can ( gripe about AI. )

We also played more Hive and picked up copies of Betrayal, Everdell Farshore, and Witchcraft, the latter of which I am about to try out very shortly here.

Music: We had a very excellent house session on Monday, after which one of the players used some fancy software to transcribe my playing of some of the tunes. It's pretty cool to see what I'm actually doing set down in notation.

Podcasts/Articles: No podcasts, as I just haven't been in a longform audio mood for the last several months. I did read one longform article: Irish Gothic, however.

Roleplaying: Nothing this week, although there are noises about starting up Oldest D&D Group's homebrew campaign back up.

Television: Late days at work last week + the full slate of extracurriculars meant the GC and I weren't up for much aside from cute animal videos this week, but we did watch Max Headroom S2 Ep 3 today. The main plot was another variation of the "how channels try to corrupt the elections" storyline, and was convoluted with several gaping holes, but one of the subplots is ( among my favorites in the series. )

Video Games: I'm still playing Pentiment and Ultima IV, and started Machinarium; we also got Ghost of Yotei.

In other news, ( I wander in the wilderness no more. )

これで以上です。

malinaldarose

lb_lee

Mori: since I wasn’t going to be much good for anything else today, I decided to make bone broth, since it takes a gazillion hours and requires nothing but you sitting to make sure it don’t catch fire. You just take your bones and various veggie odds’n’ends (I had about a chicken and a half worth of bones, plus carrot stubs, a onion, garlic, bay leaves, peppercorns), pour water over ‘em, and simmer for a million years. I been simmering that shit for going on seven hours now; the recipe I got said up to twelve but no way can I stay up to 2AM for that.

It’s still pretty weak, but it’s all my body wants and I swear this is the most delicious shit I done ever put in my mouth. My body is ENTHUSIASTIC about it, and it been enthusiastic about jack fucking shit today.

I AM NEVER NOT MAKING BONE BROTH EVER AGAIN.

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dialecticdreamer

Deeper Thoughts
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1b of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1159
[Monday, May 11, 2020, dinner time]

:: A new idea emerges over warm food and welcome company. Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::

:: Author’s note: The universe seems to be kicking me over and over this month. I’m trying to stay on track, and am sorry for the delays. ::

Slowly, the strawberry blond spoke, and the cadence was eerily close to Aidan’s. “Poker is only one way to mess with probability math. Baccarat is more fun to me,” he added, giving it the Italian pronunciation. “Or, if you’re patient, you can bet on the probability of certain chess games playing out. We did it with groups of ten moves, five per side, and didn’t bother betting for the first five.”

“We?” Garegin asked gently.
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lightbird

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

I'm not exactly a visual person, so the mood board is kind of out, lol. I went with music instead.

Anyone who has ever watched Hey Arnold! knows that when it comes to music for it, it's all about the jazz. So here are some tunes!

(1) Jordu by Irving "Duke" Jordan

Here is the version by Clifford Brown and Max Roach. This upbeat song, or at least parts of it, could definitely have been background music for an episode.

(2) On Green Dolphin Street

This beautiful, bittersweet song, written by Bronisław Kaper, was actually the soundtrack of the 1947 historical drama/disaster film Green Dolphin Street (there's a ton of drama in this, but it actually has a happyish ending), and although the movie soundtrack is performed in a more straightforward orchestral classical style the song became a jazz standard. There are many great versions of the song, but I like this one a lot. Though there is lots of truly laugh-out-loud humor in Hey Arnold!, there are also many poignant and some truly heart-breaking moments in the show, too. I think this melody captures that mix very well.

(3) L'il' Darlin' by Neal Hefti

A definite choice for adult Helga and Arnold.

The Count Basie Orchestra recorded and performed this song as an instrumental, which you can listen to here. It's a gorgeous tune and arrangement. And so sexy for our favorite OTP.

John Hendrix later wrote lyrics to the song, and his jazz vocalese trio Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross recorded and performed the sung version with Count Basie. You can listen to their version here. The lyrics are as perfect as the tune (of course Arnold is the kind of man who likes to stay home in the evening, if he's with Helga), and Annie Ross's solo in the middle is *chef's kiss*.

And while that trio was terrific, I also want to link this performance of the song by the Seattle Academy Onions, a terrific high school jazz choir. This performance is from over a decade ago, but it's a fantastic arrangement of the song and really worth listening to, especially if you like jazz choirs and vocal ensemble music generally.

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hannah

I've got work tomorrow. If I keep saying it, maybe I'll believe it ahead of time.

It's more of a gig than a job - my parents knew some people who needed their home library alphabetized and reorganized, and we met last week to see if we'd be a good fit. It turns out we are, so for at least two full working days a week for the next few weeks, I'll be heading a few blocks uptown to get paid to do what I went to school to learn how to do. Alphabetizing novels by author is one thing; working with an individual to figure out their needs for their personal library and how to organize within that is another. So far I suggested moving all the kids' books to the two children's bedrooms, and creating a city/travel section as would be useful for them, though not for others.

I'm going back to packing my own lunch. Though as it's in someone else's apartment and they've said I can use their mugs and their tea, I might not need to pack my own silverware. But I might, just to be on the safe side about these things.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: nothing now

sixbeforelunch

Challenge #10: Big mood. Create a mood board.

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kellan_the_tabby

or, a comment I posted over at Ysabet's & decided to share here, as well, because it made me giggle

I was raised by the husky as much as by my parents, & grew up speaking Dog about as well as English. I slowly learned Housecat as a second language starting in my 20s.

Jasper has had dogs as a special interest basically his whole life, & also spent a lot of time with the local cat colony, so he speaks both Dog & Feral Cat as second languages. (English is also a second language for him; his first is ASL.)

Loiosh (the orange tabby) lived with a couple of Great Pyrenees, & their humans, who are also basically Great Pyrenees, for a couple of weeks after he was orphaned. So his first language was Dog, & that was a lot of how we communicated for a couple years. We've been kinda learning Housecat together. I've learned a lot more of it than he has.

Major Tom (the big grey tabby) was feral before he decided I didn't suck too much. I've learned a lot of Feral Cat from him, & he's learned a lot of Housecat from me. He finds Loiosh to be WEIRD AS HELL but will, sometimes, help him with Cat. He CLAIMS that he won't learn Dog as a matter of principle, & he doesn't SPEAK Dog that I've seen, but he absolutely UNDERSTANDS a fair amount of it.

Remy (the LARGE black dog) is Jasper's but was raised by all of us. So he has Dog as a first language, but started picking up Housecat & Feral Cat at eight weeks. Watching an eighty pound dog assume the meatloaf position, complete with neatly-tucked front paws, is an EXPERIENCE. He's very bad at meowing, but that doesn't stop him from trying.

It's an entire-ass menagerie around here, is what.

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Challenge #9: Favorite Tropes

Skipping #7 because both bragging and blatantly seeking compliments are go against moral code, and skipping #8 because if I even have a process, it clearly sucks TT I haven't completed anything in 87 years. So, my favorite tropes! This question is probably so easy if you read fanfic, but I don't, so I always have to look up my favorite canons and try to figure out why I like them.

So, this time I'm going with Defrosting Ice King. I like Ice Queens too, but due to what I like to read/watch my examples are mooostly M/F with the F as the main character, although there's platonic examples too. This is a really popular trope and I feel somewhat ashamed to be using it for this challenge, but I suppose I'm not so above it all. Even I feel moe when I see a gap </3 (Translation: Even I feel deep affection when I see someone do something very different from my initial impression of them.) But I like it best when it's an over-time thing! Finding out someone serious has a plushie collection at home has nothing on seeing someone serious cry over another person they swore they'd never give a hoot about later. Also the idea of someone caring about another so much that they stick with them even though they're cold or kind of mean, thus allowing them to open up, makes me :)

I like pictures, so you're getting pictures.

Exhibit A: Kamisama Kiss

- 25 or so episodes later (and do note the apron) -

(^just to be clear, he is removing the mushrooms here)

Rather than just being "cold," Tomoe is very decidedly an Ice King of the Jerkass variety. I'm not looking up how TV Tropes defines Jerkass though. I just know he is mean and rude and arrogant, which makes him seem awful to new people probably but it's in a comedic way I swear. Not a good person. Great househusband! 10/10, would tell him off again.

Exhibit B: The Legend of Hei

The subtitles were soft and the thing I was using to screenshot doesn't catch such subs, so I'm putting them under the images.

Wuxian (blue guy): "Saved me the trouble of finding you."
- ONE HOUR LATER -

Hei: "Can... Can I go with you?"

Wuxian: "Of course."

Wuxian: "You sure you want to wander with me? Don't you want a home?"

Hei: "I wanna be with you."

Wuxian: "Alright."

TV Tropes says Wuxian is the Ice Queen, but I don't buy that. Even if one may assume from the beginning he's just an agent/assassin and it's later proven he's pretty chill and deadpan-comedic, it's not that Hei changed him through the power of love. It's just that there's more to him than being good at his job. On the other hand, Hei is cold and tries to escape Wuxian many times but eventually ends up sobbing at the thought of being apart from him, and that's all because of Wuxian's kindness. Hei's like a widdle Ice Prince.

And look! I've got some "Not So Above It All" too!

"We also accept mobile payment."

"This is my jade pendant. Keep the change."

"DINE-AND-DASHERS!!"

Wuxian is kind of the king of that trope. To me.

Exhibit C: From Far Away

In case you don't know, Japanese comics are read from top to bottom (like English comics) and right to left (not like English comics).
My favoritest meetembarassing ever btw:

- You'll never guess what happens 6 volumes later -

Saved my favorite couple for last :33333333 I judge all love confessions by comparing it by the urgency in this one, I really do. And I like that Izark is kind and caring throughout, but still rather distant until the confession. Mean guys are funny, but nice guys are like french fries for the soul. (French fries are chicken soup to me.)

Izark has some Not So Above It All moments, but I imagined trying to find the page where he draws on the face of someone who lost a fight and sighed really deeply. Not, not today.

There's lots more examples I like, like Reika in Aim for the Ace, Michel from The House in Fata Morgana, Edmond from NU: Carnival, Sesshomaru of Inuyasha fame, Clavis (maybe Julious and possibly Lumiale too?) from Angelique, whom I really wish I could have included because he is SO funny but I can't do an entire Angelique run before the next challenge gets posted, Seung-gyu from Bad Boss in a 4D chess kind of way because Young-jo didn't even know she was defrosting an Ice King as he was Nice Guy-faking, probably Felix from Fire Emblem, aaaaaand Utena thought she was simply defrosting an Ice Queen with Anthy from Revolutionary Girl Utena, but it was some other deeper shit she was unprepared for.

This trope has a lot in common with tsunderes, so why not just say I like tsunderes? It's technically true, many characters I like can be described as such, but I associate the word "tsundere" too much with girls who are unnecessarily abusive, not even in a hot way, so I'm not a fan of it. A tsundere done well is fun though. Kuuderes too!

If you have any ACG reccs with non-babyish art styles -- YMMV but compare Yamamori Mika's art with Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table, which is the first example I could think of LOL -- let me know :] It can be any gender combination or any kind of love.
If the guy doesn't have long hair I don't care

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