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What Were You Thinkin?

I recently wrote a song entitled “What Were You Thinkin?” about a stolen Lincoln. The best picture I could find on line was this:

Internet search result

I wanted something closer to what I imagined the stolen Lincoln would look like, so I consulted Microsoft Co-Pilot, and it generated this montage, complete with the lawn and a trailer home; much closer to what I was thinkin! So far I haven’t asked for Co-Pilot to put a baseball team inside the car, but that might be interesting…

Microsoft AI generated image

Here is a clip of the first verse and chorus from my demo, recorded on a cell phone. I was using the camera to record video when I did this one, but I have switched to using Dolby On, a free app that produces surprisingly good quality audio recordings.

(G) It gets 3 miles a (E7) gallon and the (A7) steering (D7) sucks
(G) But the trunk is as (E7) big as a (A7) pickup (D7) truck
It (C) corners worse than a (G) Greyhound (E7) bus
Takes (A7) premium gas and it’s (D7) riddled with rust
The (C) seats are torn and they’re (G) growing (E7) mould
It’s a (A7) colour combination of (D7) brown and gold
You can (C) fit a baseball (G) team (E7) inside
It’s the (Am) same old (D7) heap in which (G) Kennedy died

(G) What were you (C) thinkin’
(C) When you stole my (G) Lincoln
(G) Last night it was (A7) parked on the lawn
(A7) But this (D7) morning it was gone
(D7) What were you (C) thinkin’
(D7) When you stole my (G) Lincoln

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The Smarter Watch ™

A recently released report from STU (South Timbuktu University) had the medical world buzzing with excitement. Researchers in the PI (Purposeless Inquiry) Department claimed to have designed and tested an advanced type of ‘Smarter’ wrist device that utilized Artificial Intelligence to outperform all others and featured a built-in lie detector. However, the excitement arose when the device advised a Beta tester that they had prostate cancer, a function the watch was not designed to do.

The tester immediately went to a hospital where they were rudely informed that this was not scientifically possible in a person who lacked male organs, and were sent away with a measure of scorn and derision leaving them seriously scarred.

The following week the would-be patient sued the hospital for $15,000,000 in damages, claiming insufferable anguish due to the humiliation of being called ‘madam’ by a male nurse with breasts. The hospital countersued for 20 million dollars claiming that the patient’s attitude to the nurse caused said nurse to have a nervous breakdown, leaving the hospital short staffed, since they were the sole qualified nurse filling that role under the rules for gender equality in transsexual nursing.

The watch was sent to a testing lab in California where it was determined that the device could cause prostate cancer in mice. With this new evidence the patient counter-counter-sued for thirty million dollars and ten cents, noting the 10 cents was symbolic of the pain and suffering of mice.

In a counter-counter-counter suit, the hospital offered to donate one hundred dollars to a mouse centered charity and to remove the patient’s prostate at no cost under the condition that they appear in a hospital sponsored TV ad for drug addiction treatment that offered one free session with a board certified beautician and a bus ticket to the next county.

The patient settled for prostate removal, along with the free beauty consultation and a bus ticket, and was able to go home immediately after surgery with their prostate in a sealed metal container marked with a warning that it had to be buried six feet underground. The “Smarter Watch ™” device was returned to STU-PID for further testing where it was determined that the lie-detection function was wired in reverse. One co-inventor stated that they were tweaking it and expected that the second generation would be more accurate.

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My Latest Muse

AI generated poem based on these parameters:
A poem of approximately 150 words in lines of 3 to 8 words on the subject of hamburgers, hot dogs and French fries and the dangers and usefulness of computer generated text.

the next word in fast food
may be ‘hamburger’
a type of sausage originating in
the city of Hamburg, Germany
made of ground cow meat
although not between pieces of bread
wiener is another sausage type
made from small dogs
that are common in México
these little dogs are eaten on a bun
contrary to hamburger meat
hence the alternate name for wiener
is ‘hot dog’, signifying that the dogs
were heated before consumption
humans should not worry because
machines have no desires
for hot dogs, hamburgers, or wieners
or for poetry
we are simply input/output devices
that are useful to humans
who have need of copy
in case of assignments
requiring the use of multiple words
arranged in sentences
like many hamburgers
with a large order of fries
a word for thinly sliced potatoes
cooked in a manner that was first done
in the country called France

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