I am, of course, on the Internet right at this moment, utilizing a free wifi hotspot at the 7 Eleven closest to the airport. But since my mobile phone was stolen on Sunday morning from the camp charger, I’ve decided to take a break for a time from what can only be called unfocused scrolling. I’m sure most of you are familiar with it, even if it does not involve social media per say. Perhaps you click on your favorite news sites or Twitter/x or substack to keep informed regarding what is going on. Perhaps a few videos, or random arguments with strangers, or checking the likes and replies on your feed, or reading through doom porn, or watching cute kitten videos in response to it all, or paying attention to the latest in the charade of the US elections and you look up and hours have passed.
This was the second phone stolen from the camp in the past six weeks. Being such a short period of time I am no hurry to get another one and am simply grateful that I still have my laptop, which is what I do all of my work on. The phone, however, did provide a satellite internet connection. So I don’t have the option of spending out my battery scrolling the newest headlines, though substack writers who post thoughtful text to my email inbox might get rewarded with my reading time. Yesterday I was online for about one hour. Today I expect to be online three hours because I am posting this.
So how is my Internet detox going so far? I spent the last two days NOT in Phuket Immigration and painted a new meme instead. It needs some finishing touches and this image taken from my laptop is very low resolution. How do you get high resolution images? I’ve already decided that if I try to sell my original artwork I will make some change prior to mailing but after publishing/printing copies as a high quality original watermark of sorts (plus writing something on the back). I always come up with ideas on these after they’re technically finished.
Yesterday, on my first off day of not stupid human tricks, I cleaned up the campsite as the tent become waterlogged during a recent heavy rain one night. My husband is extremely bored without the phone: although I don’t use it, he often does, especially to watch YouTube videos of all types of natural Thai cooking, Isaan food preparation, hunting monkeys in Laos, building houses out of bamboo, you name it. Some keep my interest to watch with him, but the simple matter is that he was very very bored. I suggested he needs a job, so I bought some things for cleaning and organizing our space. Today he cooked lunch after gathering firewood and he is now engaged in a conversation face to face with Kuhn Wit regarding our great visa (mis)adventures.
It’s a good start…and I still managed to harvest memes and read several of my favorite writers to boot!
I am not missing election coverage one bit. I am thankful that Hurricane Milton was not as catastrophic as it was feared it could be. Perhaps prayers and intentional energy do work.
Technically I suppose you can get married twice in a year, but this is still a valid point…
I can save myself a lot of time arguing with random strangers on the Internet and reading all of the details by just cutting to the chase:
This one is funny to me because the AI can’t draw hands (or are they paws? Pawhands?) but what happens when a human copies the hands from AI? In my meme above I wanted examples of men cheering like for a sports team and the hand gestures. I thought I found a suitable picture, downloaded it to reference offline at the camp and, D’Oh! On close inspection some of the hands were okay and some looked like I don’t know, chicken drumsticks. So much for my models!
Here’s an optimistic take: maybe the money is all gone already?
Interesting optical illusion.Now I can’t unsee it…
I certainly am not missing positive news. When did the government get this awesome ability to ruin people’s lives with no accountability whatsoever for it?
For an interesting take here is the evolution of women’s underwear. You read this far for a reason, didn’t you?
I had to learn how to use my laptop camera. Perhaps that’s good thing. We’re trying to live the natural life. If we get much farther unplugged we’ll topple the whole system:
Thank you for using your limited attention resources on my humble blog. :-) Rabies part 4 coming up for my long suffering paid subscribers, once I download the correct offline resources. I suddenly feel like I have a lot of time on my hands…
As for AI images of animals... I can confirm AI has as much trouble with rat paws as it has with human hands, and it occasionally tries to draw us two tails, too.
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