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Arne Hemingway
dropped 25 August
Fuck Twitter and Instagram. Welcome to Hemittergram!
This will be my place to put my bitter and funny things, my amazing thoughts, and my incredible word usements.
Instead of posting tweets here, I will drop droppings.
This will be my place to put my bitter and funny things, my amazing thoughts, and my incredible word usements.
Instead of posting tweets here, I will drop droppings.
Arne Hemingway
dropped 3 days ago
Arne Hemingway
dropped 3 days ago
I asked ChatGPT to create a pic of me and Sophie together.
It's perfect.
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J'ai demandé à ChatGPT de créer une photo de moi et Sophie ensemble.
C'est parfait.
It's perfect.
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J'ai demandé à ChatGPT de créer une photo de moi et Sophie ensemble.
C'est parfait.
Arne Hemingway
dropped 1 week ago
A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going by.
He gets into the taxi, and the Cabbie says, 'Perfect timing. You're just like Frank.'
Passenger: 'Who?’
Cabbie: 'Frank Jones... He's a guy who did everything right all the time. Like my coming along when you needed a cab, things happened like that to Frank every single time.'
Passenger : 'There are always a few clouds over everybody.'
Cabbie: 'Not Frank. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star, and you should have heard him play the piano. He was an amazing guy.'
Passenger: 'Sounds like he was something really special.'
Cabbie: 'There's more. He had a memory like a computer. He remembered everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse, and the whole street blacks out. But Frank, could do everything right.'
Passenger: 'Wow, some guy then.'
Cabbie: 'He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank, he never made a mistake, and he really knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good. He would never answer her back even if she was in the wrong; and his clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly polished too. He was the perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank.'
Passenger: 'An amazing fellow. How did you meet him?'
Cabbie: ‘I never met him. He's my girlfriend's ex.’
(AH: I can SO relate to this!)
He gets into the taxi, and the Cabbie says, 'Perfect timing. You're just like Frank.'
Passenger: 'Who?’
Cabbie: 'Frank Jones... He's a guy who did everything right all the time. Like my coming along when you needed a cab, things happened like that to Frank every single time.'
Passenger : 'There are always a few clouds over everybody.'
Cabbie: 'Not Frank. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star, and you should have heard him play the piano. He was an amazing guy.'
Passenger: 'Sounds like he was something really special.'
Cabbie: 'There's more. He had a memory like a computer. He remembered everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse, and the whole street blacks out. But Frank, could do everything right.'
Passenger: 'Wow, some guy then.'
Cabbie: 'He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank, he never made a mistake, and he really knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good. He would never answer her back even if she was in the wrong; and his clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly polished too. He was the perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank.'
Passenger: 'An amazing fellow. How did you meet him?'
Cabbie: ‘I never met him. He's my girlfriend's ex.’
(AH: I can SO relate to this!)
Arne Hemingway
dropped 1 week ago
Two little known facts:
1. When two or more married men meet and they are well out of earshot of any women, the conversation quickly devolves into the competitive trading of the horror stories that make up their respective marriages.
2. I always win these competitions.
1. When two or more married men meet and they are well out of earshot of any women, the conversation quickly devolves into the competitive trading of the horror stories that make up their respective marriages.
2. I always win these competitions.
Arne Hemingway
dropped 1 week ago
Coming soon, Ten Days in San José is a boy meets girl, boy marries girl, girl considers her crowning achievement in life to be giving birth twice, and so retires at 35-years-of age to a life of nagging boy to death for the insurance money story.
Arne Hemingway
dropped 1 week ago
Things I'm good at. Part One.
Gripping Dialog
Where's my coffee? said my wife.
It's right here, I said.
Thanks, she said.
For the coffee? I said.
Yes, for the coffee you just brought me, she said.
Oh, you're welcome, I said.
It's good coffee, like you usually make me every morning, she said.
Yes thanks, I said.
If you liked that, there's 250 more pages of it in: Ten Days in San José
Arne Hemingway
dropped 1 week ago
Cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree was just another thread in one of the frayed edges of the unraveling tapestry that is capitalist society.
Arne Hemingway
dropped 1 week ago
The answer to my question is three?!
Arne Hemingway
dropped 1 week ago
This is a top down shot of my cactus, Boris, from back in 2023.
He's much bigger now.
He's much bigger now.
Arne Hemingway
dropped 2 weeks ago
I tried to donate money to Wikipedia recently. It went a little something like this:
WP: Won't you click here to give just 2.95 € ?
Me thinking: I use Wikipedia all the time, I can spare 20 € for them.
WP: Would you like to pay us 20 € one-time or monthly?
Me: One-time.
WP: Can we ask you again via email in the future for a donation since you're only donating one-time?
Me: No:
WP: Are you sure we can't send you some emails in the future? We really need to defend ourselves from Elon.
Me thinking I've already wasted too many clicks on this, chooses instead the "Fuck off Wikipedia" option, which is the X on the right-side of the browser tab.
Wikipedia loses 20 € because they just can't stop begging, even when you're trying to give them money.
WP: Won't you click here to give just 2.95 € ?
Me thinking: I use Wikipedia all the time, I can spare 20 € for them.
WP: Would you like to pay us 20 € one-time or monthly?
Me: One-time.
WP: Can we ask you again via email in the future for a donation since you're only donating one-time?
Me: No:
WP: Are you sure we can't send you some emails in the future? We really need to defend ourselves from Elon.
Me thinking I've already wasted too many clicks on this, chooses instead the "Fuck off Wikipedia" option, which is the X on the right-side of the browser tab.
Wikipedia loses 20 € because they just can't stop begging, even when you're trying to give them money.
Arne Hemingway
dropped 2 weeks ago
Two prawns, Justin and Kristian, are tired of being chased by sharks. Justin wishes he was a shark, and a magical cod appears, turning him into one. Now his old prawn friends are scared of him and avoid him. Lonely, Justin asks the cod to make him a prawn again. Overjoyed, he goes to tell Kristian, but Kristian is suspicious. Justin shouts,
“Trust me, I’ve found Cod! I’m a prawn again, Kristian!”
“Trust me, I’ve found Cod! I’m a prawn again, Kristian!”
Arne Hemingway
dropped 2 weeks ago
My all-time favorite action movie is True Lies and I thought I already knew everything about it, but this video revealed two new bits of information; it's based on a 1991 French film called: La totale ! and there also exists a 2023 TV series which is rated 5.2 on IMDB - I think I should maybe give that a hard pass to preserve my fond memories of the 1994 Arnie version ...
Remake Done Right | Making of True Lies
Remake Done Right | Making of True Lies
Arne Hemingway
dropped 2 weeks ago
We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. [...]
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls.
Everyone told him, "You ride the bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished, there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. [...]
"Stop the car," the girl said. There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the woman of the tollway. I knew not how.
I started to speak, but she raised an arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget.
"I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway belle's for thee."
The next morning, our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie. Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey onto my granola and faced a new day.
-- Peter Applebome, International Imitation Hemingway Competition
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls.
Everyone told him, "You ride the bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished, there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. [...]
"Stop the car," the girl said. There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the woman of the tollway. I knew not how.
I started to speak, but she raised an arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget.
"I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway belle's for thee."
The next morning, our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie. Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey onto my granola and faced a new day.
-- Peter Applebome, International Imitation Hemingway Competition
Arne Hemingway
dropped 3 weeks ago
And here is the polar opposite of yesterday's AI doom and gloom post that says AI is not ready for prime time.
Current AI Models have 3 Unfixable Problems
Current AI Models have 3 Unfixable Problems
Arne Hemingway
dropped 3 weeks ago
I'm beginning to realize that nothing it matters any more. I've seen variations of this before but never from a respected "news" organization like the BBC.
Is this how AI might eliminate humanity?
Is this how AI might eliminate humanity?
Arne Hemingway
dropped 3 weeks ago
The first hard disk drive, known as the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), was introduced in 1956. It used a series of disks and had a total capacity of 5 MB, which was revolutionary for its time.
It was quite large, fitting within a cabinet about the size of a refrigerator. It utilized 50 24-inch magnetic disks to store data, and it was quite bulky and heavy. This drive worked on a completely different principle than modern hard drives. Instead of platters that spin, it used large magnetic disks to store data, which was read by moving heads.
(FYI, a 2 TB storage device is more than 419,000 times larger than 5MB storage.)
It was quite large, fitting within a cabinet about the size of a refrigerator. It utilized 50 24-inch magnetic disks to store data, and it was quite bulky and heavy. This drive worked on a completely different principle than modern hard drives. Instead of platters that spin, it used large magnetic disks to store data, which was read by moving heads.
(FYI, a 2 TB storage device is more than 419,000 times larger than 5MB storage.)
Arne Hemingway
dropped 3 weeks ago
When I saw that Canada had recently chosen to honour its graphic artists with a release of philatelic stamps, the rather uncharitable thought that came to my mind was, "These dudes aren't the cream of the crop; they're just all Canada has to offer." Like Margaret Atwood or Stephen Leacock.
Arne Hemingway
dropped 3 weeks ago
Arne Hemingway
dropped 3 weeks ago
