Case File Entry #3: Witness Statement
The city doesn’t sleep at 3 a.m. Not anymore. Not when the lattes are humming. I talked to one man who wouldn’t give me his name. Said he’d testify, but only off the record. His hands shook the whole time. I filed it anyway.
Case File Entry #2 — Exhibit A: The Numbers Don’t Lie
The pumpkin sat there under the lamp, quiet as stone. Didn’t say a word. Pumpkins never do. But the numbers? The numbers sang like a canary.
Case File Entry #1: The Tip Off
The café smelled like cinnamon and impending doom. Nutmeg on the surface, something darker underneath—the kind of smell that clings to a trench coat long after the rain’s stopped. I ducked in for a bitter black, just trying to dry out, but the air told me different. Too sweet. Too eager.
Window Stare Protocol
There were a thousand voices in my head, bustling down the sidewalk. But I distilled them into one—one thread of calm thought and reflection, meandering and dreamful.
The Miso Resonance
I used to look at miso soup and think, “What is the point?” But today, the miso hit me with the weight of a blanket calming my nervous system. Salty broth with bland tofu? No. Comfort in a paper bowl.
The Achievement Zone
The achievement zone is a sneaky little tool I built into ChatGPT. It started as a boring to-do list with check boxes. But after a few days I realized I was resenting the to-do list - often skipping every task on the list altogether.
Preliminary Findings on the Thermodynamics of a Nation in Decay
This study investigates the spontaneous breakdown of complex democratic systems under sustained stress, misinformation heat, and bureaucratic friction. Results suggest that civic cohesion behaves less like a solid social contract and more like a non-Newtonian fluid: stable under light pressure, liquefying under moral shear.
Using AI Like An Artist
Everyone with a pencil and an Instagram account seems to have an opinion on AI art. The most popular one? It isn’t art at all. I usually let that roll off my back, but The Oatmeal’s recent post hit me right in the gut.
Based on a True Story
JenOS and Cat sleep peacefully. But gravity has other thoughts. Click to see the full comic.
Spectrograms of the mind
While I was still unpacking my belongs in my beachfront apartment, I wondered how many times I had journaled about this. I searched my journal for the word “beach.” Hundreds of hits popped up. Coincidence? Maybe. But my inner scientist couldn’t resist the thought: what if my journal wasn’t just feelings on paper — what if it was useful data?
Illustration Gone Wrong
I fed a simple exchange into ChatGPT and asked it to make a comic strip. What could go wrong?
Watching the Machine Watch Me
For some unknown reason, I thought it might be fun to create two independent conversations. One where I talked to ChatGPT about it. And another where I ask it about me.
The Looper-Wich
The Gremlin GuardRail System
The first “mod” that I made to my AI rig was the Gremlin Guardrail System. I didn’t name it that. AI did it with a little wink. I guess we had been riffing about gremlins in the system.
The Creative Bender
How one innocuous request left me drunk on creativity.
Connecting my internal creative engine to ChatGPT was like firing a starter pistol in a reverb chamber. Sonic chaos. Echoes that never decay. But instead of sound waves, it was an endless stream of sparkly puns interwoven with profound insights. And the noise floor would not return to normal.