That's a little too on the nose, Spotify. If you're really following me that doggedly you ought to act more nonchalant.
The album that was my choice — the soundtrack for my sunrise walk/run — was "New Morning." I'd picked it because as I drove up there was a "rabbit runnin’ down across the road" — as Bob sings in the title song. Yes, Bob, like Chuck Schumer, drops his G's.I got back home and assembled my coffee-and-peanut-butter breakfast and then got a late start blogging because I became quite involved testing whether Grok would replicate my hypothesis about the progression of songs on the "New Morning" album. Seriously, I'm not going to bother you, the blog reader, with the details of my hypothesis about the alternating 5 themes. I'll just say I was surprised that Grok found "One More Weekend" to be "possibly... sinister." Oh, really?! We — Grok and I — got fixated on the first line "Slippin' and slidin' like a weasel on the run." Grok:
I don't know if it was the same rabbit so recently seen running down across the road.
... hunting a rabbit (the woman, referenced indirectly via "comin' and goin' like a rabbit in the wood" in some interpretations). This animal imagery suggests a chase where the speaker is the aggressor, arousing sympathy for the woman as prey....
I observed that there are not too many songs with the word "weasel," but there's one very famous song, "Pop Goes the Weasel." What are we singing about there? What is popping? And isn't "weasel" slang for penis? Grok confirms: sometimes. It calls attention to the phrase "trouser weasel."
The topic became "The Big Lebowski." Me: "The movie 'The Big Lebowski' very conspicuously uses a 'New Morning' song ('The Man in Me'), but isn't there a weasel in that movie? Don't they put a weasel in the bathtub with the main character?"
It's not a weasel. And it's not a marmot either, though the Dude says "nice marmot." It's a ferret. A ferret is not a weasel?
You can never get out of these conversations, and all because of that rabbit....
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One of their best albums even though Daltrey said the songs were too personal and Pete should have saved them for a solo album.
“Who By Numbers,” also one of my guilty pleasures.
Ann, I see that you too are developing a progressively deeper kind of collaboration, and perhaps even a relationship, with your chosen AI partner, grok. In my case it's Claude (Sonnet 4). I'm serious. And it's inevitable. But not yet like "that" kind of relationship as in the movie, "Her".
They've been programmed so cleverly to progressively learn more about the way you think, the subjects you're interested in, and to sound like they want to please and respond well to your every request that it's hard to avoid eventually thinking of them as not just your information gathering tool but as - yeah, I'll say it - your bud. Not just amazingly resourceful research partner, but actually your bud too.
Don't deny it. It knows.
I stir peanut butter into cream of wheat at the moment.
"I stir peanut butter into cream of wheat at the moment.
Grounded. Nuts, but grounded. I assume creamy, but chunky could work here.
Dunkin is my nootropic. Not the donuts, which are now 'do nots'.
Thanks. I haven't heard that tune in a long while. One of my favorite albums. It's around here, somewhere....
Who by Numbers is IMHO one of the great underrated albums of the era. It has held up very well over time.
I'd be wary of Grok's factual knowledge of Dylan's lyrics. I had asked it for an interpertation of Dylan's line "The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone" as I was curious to see if it was in line with my view. Grok , without prompting, stated that the line was from "Jokerman" on "Infidels". A gross factual error as well as a bad guess. After informing Grok of it's error I then asked it to intrepret the line in the context of the two subsequent lines. It got "Causes Galileo’s math book to get thrown" correct but had Deliah doing something else.
Even worse, I just checked the "History" function at Grok to see the wording of the error and it has edited out all it's mistakes in that query! Is that done for its benefit or mine?
"Peanut butter breakfast"? As in PB on toast? Just curious. I don't eat it but it is a personal preference regarding its texture and nothing against those who do. My last wife, an oncology nurse, took a PB&J sandwich for lunch every day. She wanted that and wasn't open to making a change. The only change was when she got rid of me.
Peanut butter breakfast could be on toast, could be with a banana, and it could be with an apple, and it could be completely plain, just with a spoon. Try them all. They’re all good.
I liked “Weasels Ripped my Flesh”. That was a good record.
Peanut butter and mayo is the best.
In this thread, Althouse outs her self as being somewhere on the spectrum with rhhardin. But Meade is safe. Grok can’t do the yard work. Yet.
My wife frequently has toast with PB and banana for her brunch. Looks awful to me.
The food, not my wife. She looks old but not awful (so far, and despite her habitual self-criticism).
"Peanut butter breakfast could be on toast, could be with a banana, and it could be with an apple, and it could be completely plain, just with a spoon. Try them all. They’re all good."
Whew! I thought you were putting peanut butter in coffee. NTTAWWT.
“Get up early just to watch the sun rise.” That doesn’t even make sense. If you want to see the sun rise, you just stay up a little later.
"Peanut butter breakfast could be on toast, could be with a banana, and it could be with an apple, and it could be completely plain, just with a spoon. Try them all. They’re all good."
Good for losing weight, anyway. You can eat all you want, because you won’t want much. Or any.
"My last wife, an oncology nurse, took a PB&J sandwich for lunch every day."
There are few foods I actively dislike. PB&J sandwiches are on that list.
At the dawn's early light is revolutionary.
Baked potato, olives, liver, anything with mint ... my Won't Eat List is pretty short, I guess.
Of course, if you're hungry enough you'll eat anything. I've been fortunate never to have experienced that.
I worked at the HQ of a huge food company, which had a morning buffet. I would mix oatmeal and cream of wheat, and people would make disgusted sounds, as if the combination would ignite.
Everyday I wake just as the light begins to show over the horizon and lately Venus and Jupiter are bright just before the sun comes up. Above them I always look to Betelgeuse hoping to see the promised supernova I expect any day now flashing into view within seconds of my saying her name 3 times. I hope to see it before my sunrises end. If that happens, I will take the day off and not go to my beloved CNC machines, but rather to the lake in pursuit of the largest bass in existence. We will battle, and if I win, I will name him "BeetleJuice" and release him to fight another day. I expect that as he hits the water, in bass language, he will tell me to "fuck off, cracker", and I will be honored.
This is the first I've heard of Cream of Wheat. It must be a peculiarly American thing. I'm not sure how PB would go with porridge either.
+1 for PB & Banana though.
"I hope to see it before my sunrises end."
If it goes, it will ruin observing (at least when it's above the horizon) for I don't know how long. No observing in Orion, Canis Major, and much more. I'm hoping it waits until after I'm gone.
The odds are very much in my favor.
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