My wife’s phone just … created this video, and offered to share it with her? Which means that Google is combing through her pictures to find photos of cats, without being asked, and then just … making stuff?
Sure.
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My wife’s phone just … created this video, and offered to share it with her? Which means that Google is combing through her pictures to find photos of cats, without being asked, and then just … making stuff?
Sure.
This picture is very old– almost exactly fourteen years, in fact– but was taken under the precise circumstances and in the same mood that I am in now; that being the end of the first semester of school, and the beginning of a glorious two weeks in which I am not responsible for anyone else’s children.
So yeah. Let’s use it again.


The tree has lights but no real ornaments (the boy hung some toys on it) and the vacuum is right next to it, plugged in. If the kitten touches the tree, we turn on the vacuum.
Works really well.
This is gonna be a neat little show, I think. Here’s the obligatory booth picture! Trying a slightly different layout this time.
IMPORTANT EDIT: It’s “Loffy-con.” Because it’s in Lafayette. Get it?

1100 Elizabeth Street in Lafayette! COME SEE ME and help raise money for adult education!

… Fuck daylight saving time, is the lesson you should be drawing here. Also, first floor room. So please do not figure out where I am and come stare creepily into my window.
Oh, and the books haven’t shipped yet, either.

I said something about how I’d never gotten a sticker before so THEY GAVE ME EXTRA and I’m totally wearing one for each of the next three days.