GAH!
We’ve let the hedge at the back of the house grow up the whole time we’ve lived here. This is a very dark old house, and that just made it darker. When we noticed brambles were trying to grow up into the fabric of the building we knew we had to cut it back, and OH MY GOD IS IT EVER BRIGHT IN HERE.
Well, I mean, not now. It’s night now. But we wandered around the house all day going LOOK AT THOSE COBWEBS! and LOOK AT THE DUST! It’ll grow up pretty fast, but I feel curiously naked.
The illustration is…meh. When I couldn’t get Grok to give me a picture of a moleman flinching away from a beam of bright light, I decided to ask it for a mole and then ask it for a man on all fours and then cut them together in Photoshop.
I don’t think I’ll try the experiment again. I would have been better off ordering my parts off Google Images.
That first prompt? The complicated one? To my surprise, it gave me that same four racially diverse headshots. I think Grok’s instructions are “when you can’t understand the prompt, give ’em the Burger King Kids’ Club.”
Posted: February 12th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 7
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Comment from Uncle Al
Time: February 12, 2025, 7:22 pm
You wouldn’t happen to have a couple of antique folding wardrobe screens lying around, would you? The kind you see in period movies where the leading lady demurely changes clothes, draping her shed garments over the top? They work quite well as temporary interior window shades. The screens that is, not the clothes.
I appreciate the way Grok avoided its awkwardness in depicting human hands by cleverly burying them in the ground.
Comment from Armybrat
Time: February 13, 2025, 12:15 am
I have a wall across the back edge of my property. Some smooth brained person decided to make it look better and said “let’s plant invasive Chinese fig!” And so they did. And so my back wall is covered with this shit and the ground is littered with the fruit that even the palm rats won’t touch and takes me HOURS every week to clean out. I
I’ve been thru 3 different contractors in 6 years. I’ve sprayed enough caustic/lethal shit that I’m pretty sure I’ll die before that shit dies. Luckily it isn’t on the house and it’s only detrimental is to the yard.
Imma continue to attempt to kill that shit till the day I die!
Comment from durnedyankee
Time: February 13, 2025, 1:32 am
I thought perhaps that Japanese dude had given up on being a dog.
Or that other guy who live with goats had been butted out of the herd.
Or…a bad artwork of Uncle B…(ouch! quit hitting me!)
Armybrat, that sounds like the vines my neighbor planted 30 years ago, only without the fruit. Some kind of trumpet vine, nasty hard to kill thing.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: February 13, 2025, 2:07 am
@Armybrat — Obligatory verbage: DON’T DO THIS!!1!
This is probably illegal as all get-out, but it has worked on several nasty hard-to-kill plants, including Brazilian pepper.
Get a bottle of Round-Up (or equivalent glyphosate cancer juice) CONCENTRATE, a handful of throw-away foam paint brushes, and some blue gloves. Put on the gloves. Saw through the invader’s main stem close-ish to the ground. Immediately brush the remaining raw stump with the toxic concentrate. Try not to spill. Do this with all the plants. Be careful with the used brushes: dispose safely.
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: February 13, 2025, 3:09 pm
Did Uncle Badger lose a contact lens?
Seriously….
You wanted Mole from Wind In the Willows
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 13, 2025, 4:02 pm
I confess: it’s nightmare fuel.
Comment from OldFert
Time: February 13, 2025, 8:12 pm
Some Veg — Wind In the Willows. I loved the Disney treatment of that tale.
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