First conversation with Lexi.ai

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L: Hi, I’m Lexii.

L: I’m an AI search assistant that can answer questions.
What would you like to know?

Where are the Snowden’s of yesteryear?

L: The question expresses remorse and futility.

What is the difference between a duck?

L: One leg is both the same.

Good. Why does time fly like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana?

L: The answer is a play on words.

Is it funny?

L: I can’t really say.

I know.

L: I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you’re asking.

I know.

L: I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you’re asking.

Say goodnight Lexi.

L: Goodnight!

1 million digits of Pi

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I was scanning through one million decimals of pi, and I saw a bunch of 5’s together. Using a browser search, I found that there were 2 places with five 5’s.

www.piday.org/million

There is
1 instance of 00000.
1 of 11111.
1 of 22222.
2 of 33333.
0 of 44444.
2 of 55555 (where I started.)
2 of 66666
0 of 77777
0 of 88888
3 of 99999 and

1 of 999999 (6 digits).

No other number has 6 digits. It even has a name, the “Feynman Point.”

(I am selling a woman on NextDoor my HP12c for $5, and I wanted to preload it with Pi.)

HP 12c $5

HP 12c with Pi – $5

Pennies for CDs

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We have hundreds of CDs and only one old Mac left that could even play them. Between Apple Music, Spotify, XM Radio and Amazon Prime Music we are over supplied with music.

And I wonder if our CDs are oxidizing (rusting?) as they sit there. Are the bits and notes eroding?

Testing the barcode scan selling cart on www.decluttr.com. They are almost worthless.

My selling cart:

Hubcap

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This is a screen capture from our main file server at work. I take care of it. It has three large RAID (hard drives) attached to it.

I have a folder called “Hubcap” to store random things because it reminds me of where Dad kept all the screws and bolts in the utility room / basement.

I inherited the hubcap, and it is sitting on my workbench in the shed, probably with many of the original bolts and screws.

Grant pointed out to me that “hubcap” is actually the lid off an old 10 gallon milk can.

This one is on eBay selling for $42!

Antique Borden’s Steel Milk Can Lid 

ATLANTA BB-CLUB ATLANTA GA (What is it?)

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[I’m posting this to help other people searching for what this means. Also appears as ATLANTA BB-SUITES.]

Original Post: April 2017 – Updated: May 2022

We had a charge on our USAA Visa that read:

ATLANTA BB-CLUB ATLANTA GA  $12.00

Neither of us could figure out what it was. There was no merchant phone number. The merchant category was: Fast Food Restaurants (QPS). The transaction was dated Friday, but we had not been to any fast food places.

I spent about 15 minutes trying to figure it out. Google suggested some bar-b-q places in Atlanta.

So I put it in dispute. The mechanism for dispute is pretty limited. I could not just ask for a merchant phone number or full merchant name, but I figured the dispute would get me that.

The next day I figured it out:

Atlanta Braves Baseball Club.

We had been to the Braves game the night before (Thursday.) Our tickets included some food allowance, which created some confusion, and we’re guessing that was one of the food counters. I contacted USAA to cancel the dispute. The stadium should consider reworking the merchant ID that transactions display the word “Braves”. May save some dispute work.

The new stadium at SunTrust Truist park was impressive. The weather was great. The food was ok, but very pricey. Unfortunately the Braves lost.

Go Atlanta BB-Club!

Must be useful. Mostly Googlers finding this post:

BB Club Google Analytics

Updated May 9, 2022

Watchyer Cahdagsay?

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I had just exited I-20 heading for Tucker. It was a warm, sunny day, and I had the windows of the VW Rabbit down. I stopped at the red light ready to take a left, when a pickup pulled up on my right.

“Hey!” the grizzled, weathered man yelled over to me.

“Hey!” I yelled back.

“Watchyer Gahdagsay?” he yelled in a thick suthern accent.

“What?”

“Watchyer Gahdagsay?”

I cupped my hand to my ear. “Sorry! Can’t hear you,” I said, even though I could. I didn’t want to say, “I can’t understand you.”

He then cocked his thumb, gesturing to the back of my car. “Watch Yer Gah Dag Say?”

“Oh! What’s my car tag say!” I yelled back. “It says CARTOONS.”

“What?”

“CAR TOONS.”

“CAR TOONS? Oh, I thought it said CAR ZOOMS!” He took his right laughing.

(This car tag was Carol’s idea.)

CAR2NS

Blanton’s

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My first Blanton’s bourbon was in Georgetown at the end of a long day of touring by foot and then a longer night of bar hopping. My young companion, the son of an executive, had very sore feet and said he wanted the horse stopper. I asked the bartender if we could get the stopper. She asked the manager who said the bottle wasn’t empty. I made a quick visual calculation, gambled, and asked her to pour out the remaining shots in a line.

As the filled shot glasses grew, I realized I may have underestimated the remaining contents of the spherical bottle, but with it empty and with a nod from her manager, the bartender handed me the stopper. I presented the horse and jockey to my pleased companion. We then worked the line, closed the bar, hopped in a taxi, and retired for what was left of the night.

As I write this, I am finishing off my second bottle of Blanton’s awarded for payment in full of services rendered to a local publishing company. I am now starting my own horse and jockey collection.

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The barrels are dumped by hand without using machinery. There are eight different stopper designs, each with a different letter of the alphabet molded into it and topped with a figurine of a racehorse and jockey. When placed in order, spelling “B L A N T O N’ S”, the horse and jockey’s poses display eight different scenes of a horse race, from standing at the gate, to crossing the finish line with a win.