I'm wondering if you are aware that Josh Chris can be easily connected with Jesus Christ. The Hebrew name Yeahoshua, translated in English as Joshua, which translated into Aramaic as Yeshua, the name Jesus bore in his lifetime.
Obviously Chris is a derivative of Christos/Christ.
If you came up with the name josh Chris for a character, I thought you might be unconsciously or consciously inspired by the relationship to Jesus Christ.
I just loved your comment about "when a gallon of their snot is dumped over your chest you respond with, 'Good job, buddy!'"
I and my husband remember a trip to Fort Bragg when our middle offspring was 3. My misguided thinking: "Oh, we don't need the potty chair; the toilet will be fine." Wrong. Val absolutely refused to poop for FOUR! DAYS! During the trip, we foisted fiber-rich food and drink to no avail. When we returned home, the potty chair was overflowing with poop within ten minutes. Oh, the good old days...
If you think toilet training is a blast, wait until you have to teach them to drive. Actual quote from my youngest: "I keep mixing up the gas pedal and the brake." Once again, the good old days...
Just want to say I have a lot of sympathy for the preschool plague. When my oldest was in preschool, I made a bet with my husband that there wouldn't be a single day where all four of us were healthy for the next month. I lost because of one single day in the middle, but the point stood.
Incidentally, homeschooling does cut back on the number of sick days, but not by as much as you would think.
i guess i’m more concerned about the environmental impact and the rapid normalization of AI. i’ve noticed this across a lot of substack accounts. why not use a pre existing piece of art and credit the real artist who created it and support artists passively that way?
It complicates things to question whether or not something really is “up for grabs” and I like to be able to fit things to my pieces. I get where the concerns come from, I really do, but similar things happened when we went from film to digital cameras. New ways of doing things appear and new ways of manipulating those things to put style on them scale up. It’s pretty crude right now, but I do enjoy it enough that I think it makes a unique style choice. For instance, this piece I made where I could reimagine a bunch of biblical pictures at scale. https://extelligence.substack.com/p/in-favor-of-cultural-christianity
are ai images even truly “up for grabs” if they feed off of every image ever uploaded to the internet, copyrighted or no? and again, the environmental impact of generative ai is alarming. i just think we need to tread carefully here.
I do feel like the technology creates meaningful difference. I do prefer a world in which artists and creators of all kinds are paid a royalty for the data they create that goes into the models. But the tech is here. The same thing that makes me look like a Ghibli character is the tech that catches a tumor on an image that no eye can see. It’s not going anywhere. And, again, it’s fun.
I'm wondering if you are aware that Josh Chris can be easily connected with Jesus Christ. The Hebrew name Yeahoshua, translated in English as Joshua, which translated into Aramaic as Yeshua, the name Jesus bore in his lifetime.
Obviously Chris is a derivative of Christos/Christ.
Wait. Do you think they knew each other?
If you came up with the name josh Chris for a character, I thought you might be unconsciously or consciously inspired by the relationship to Jesus Christ.
Sorry cannot choose between the last three offerings. Please write all three.
I will in time!
I just loved your comment about "when a gallon of their snot is dumped over your chest you respond with, 'Good job, buddy!'"
I and my husband remember a trip to Fort Bragg when our middle offspring was 3. My misguided thinking: "Oh, we don't need the potty chair; the toilet will be fine." Wrong. Val absolutely refused to poop for FOUR! DAYS! During the trip, we foisted fiber-rich food and drink to no avail. When we returned home, the potty chair was overflowing with poop within ten minutes. Oh, the good old days...
Man, toilet training has been a real blast. I won’t say of what, but a blast.
If you think toilet training is a blast, wait until you have to teach them to drive. Actual quote from my youngest: "I keep mixing up the gas pedal and the brake." Once again, the good old days...
I will read all of them with great interest, especially the one about the messiness debate. We need some nuance in this shouting match.
I will in time!
Just want to say I have a lot of sympathy for the preschool plague. When my oldest was in preschool, I made a bet with my husband that there wouldn't be a single day where all four of us were healthy for the next month. I lost because of one single day in the middle, but the point stood.
Incidentally, homeschooling does cut back on the number of sick days, but not by as much as you would think.
I figure unless he’s a recluse we will just have to suffer through them. It really makes me think something very odd is going on with viruses.
It does fall off once they're like...5 or 6. But we just had a cold and a stomach bug at the same time around here thanks to 5yo, so...🤷🏻♀️
Damn - I want to read all 7 of those stories!
& kudos, blessings, & gratitude to you for being such a great dad!💙
I’ll get to them all eventually! Thanks for suffering through a weird review of the Lorax.
curious why you use ai generated art in your posts?
A few reasons, I find it fun and in this case I wasn’t going to hire an artist so no one is out of work over it.
i guess i’m more concerned about the environmental impact and the rapid normalization of AI. i’ve noticed this across a lot of substack accounts. why not use a pre existing piece of art and credit the real artist who created it and support artists passively that way?
It complicates things to question whether or not something really is “up for grabs” and I like to be able to fit things to my pieces. I get where the concerns come from, I really do, but similar things happened when we went from film to digital cameras. New ways of doing things appear and new ways of manipulating those things to put style on them scale up. It’s pretty crude right now, but I do enjoy it enough that I think it makes a unique style choice. For instance, this piece I made where I could reimagine a bunch of biblical pictures at scale. https://extelligence.substack.com/p/in-favor-of-cultural-christianity
are ai images even truly “up for grabs” if they feed off of every image ever uploaded to the internet, copyrighted or no? and again, the environmental impact of generative ai is alarming. i just think we need to tread carefully here.
I do feel like the technology creates meaningful difference. I do prefer a world in which artists and creators of all kinds are paid a royalty for the data they create that goes into the models. But the tech is here. The same thing that makes me look like a Ghibli character is the tech that catches a tumor on an image that no eye can see. It’s not going anywhere. And, again, it’s fun.
any thoughts on the environmental aspect?