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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Almost all of the places I have lived have been tourism heavy.

    • French Quarter, New Orleans
    • Park City, Utah
    • Kissimmee, Florida (Disney)
    • Jackson Hole, Wyoming
    • Austin, Texas (not at first, but definitely the later years)
    • Destin, Florida

    There is one recurring theme. People on vacation are stressed the fuck out, desperate to enjoy their very limited and probably very expensive time off, and impatient. This makes many of them rude and entitled. Many people forget to bring their common sense and their manners when they go on vacation. They also have a propensity to binge on everything including food, entertainment, and especially booze and/or drugs. Locals are under no obligation to take your shit just because you are blowing $10k on a week or weekend vacation (of which you only get two of per year) with the family, and you are having an existential crisis that you hope your expensive vacation might remedy. Some of us are just trying to get a coffee on the way to our daily grind and you have decided to let your kids sample every flavor of ice cream in the shop before only buying a single scoop. If you see people waiting, be nice and offer to let someone else get their order in while your kids make up their minds. It is common courtesy.


  • I live in Jackson, Wyoming. I can assure you that any hostility towards Yellowstone tourons in Jackson, Teton county Wyoming and Teton county Idaho is very well deserved. Maybe not you in particular, but there are plenty of people that come this way and forget to pack their common sense and manners. So, good people get the rough treatment thanks to jerks with no care for the wilderness they are there to admire.

    The tourist season for Yellowstone is very, very short, and the rest of the year it is absolute paradise. All that said, most locals are really friendly. If they seem prickly, it is because they are stressed. Imagine if your town’s population went from 12,000 to about three million visitors in three months. Smile, be friendly and they might warm up.

    PS: If you meant the West Gate entrance in Montana then take what I just said above and multiply it. That place is fucking insane during peak.


  • I like to ask it to generate lyrics based on funny prompts. For example, I asked it to write a song from Darth Vader’s perspective about the fact that he never actually said “Luke, I am your father”. The results was just savage.

    Hey Luke
    I heard you kissed your sister on Hoth
    I’m not mad
    I’m just curious
    'Cause I never kissed mine
    Did you like it? Did she like it?
    Do you regret it? Do you feel gross?
    Did it feel weird when she kissed you?
    I know that you never kissed before

    She got a man (Ooh)
    You got a hand (Ooh)
    And maybe you should stick to what you know
    Oh
    You need to know\

    I am your father (I am your father)
    Luke
    I am your father (Luke, I am your father)
    No
    I never said that
    I never said that (No, I never said that)
    No


  • That song was a mistake that got generated when I pasted the wrong clipboard into Suno’s Lyrics window on my phone and accidentally submitted it. It has not been processed at all. Suno has a “Remaster” feature that when you are happy with the generated song you can give it a few automated “mix and mastering” passes to generate a cleaner and more dynamic sound.

    I’ve mainly used Suno to mess about so I didn’t want to pay for the upgrade.




  • I can see a creative use for Suno Studio where you can feed it a clip of a chord progression you recorded, have the AI generate a few extrapolations, then arrange bits and pieces of it within Suno Studio to create the basic song structure and finally export the midi to your DAW. Basically, you can use it as a fancy sketchpad.

    The problem I can’t get past is the environmental impact.