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WARNING: This is a somewhat technical expose’ on how I created a @Dave bot that contains all my writing and how I can chat with my writerly self. Yeah, this is AI, but used in a way that makes it private and bespoke. Anthropic’s Claude is an amazing tool for so many uses. But, he doesn’t know anything about me (thankfully, I know!) And to teach him about me only gets me so far — create a custom…

For your reading entertainment: Rooftop Squab

I ran across a business news article where some author touted using AI to write 1000 romance novels. They were published on KDP and they’d sold 50k copies. The Forbes article associated to the topic lead me to some curious notions regarding fiction reading and the tendencies for tolerance. Here’s the callouts: “In trying to understand the roots of the psychological effects of reading fiction,…

I received an email from “someone” claiming that they found my books on facebook, and my goodreads entries and offered to post the books on their facebook page. Hello Dave, I came across your page on Facebook and then checked through your book on Goodreads. Since it hasn’t received much engagement yet, I’d be happy to share your book’s link or cover on my Facebook page to help introduce it to…

Married 33 years ago today. We’re out at Lincoln City, Oregon. A dreary, stay inside, next to the fireplace kind of day. Surprised her with her favorite flowers…

How to make a spherical robot, with three degrees of freedom, tumble in a straight line due to center of gravity displacement? To continue are State Machine discussion… GOAL: Goal objective exists? (Move!) NAV: Navigation objective exists? (Forward!) SYS: System objective exists and is amenable to bot movement? (Plenty of battery!) OO: Orientation objective exists? Current OO? Roll X:Forward 1…

Overview These will be notes I write to myself regarding the software necessary to program the navigation, movement, observation, orientation and battery charge control of this tumbling robotic rover. I’ll be building a state machine that represents command & control of the bot. If you’re not familiar with a state machine it’s essentially a flow chart. The flow between the ovals (conditions /…

Here will be the anchor site for my research and testing while building (or attempting to build) the BumbleBot tumbling rover.

Exceedingly late, and incomplete, this is the compendium of 2022’s September Scene Writing Month’s efforts. Read the stories in a separate tab here.

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The Edge of the Far Horizon: One

The Alethea sails at dawn and you stowaway. Three days out, you are discovered within the galley’s pantry. Your presence  arouses the crew—they know what hardships you are about to endure. “It’s forty days to the Caribe,” they taunt. “Plenty o’ time to scrape the barnacles from the hull, sand the decks smooth as glass.” You’re taken below and dragged into the Captain’s cabin. Captain Tellerson…

DarkWinterLit: A Grandmother’s Love

Thanks again to Suzanne (EducationalMentorship.com) for considering another of my stories for inclusion in her blossoming online literary magazine www.DarkWinterLit.com. “I don’t do that anymore. Please stop asking.” Morna set down her cup and stared at her daughter in-law. Women in the township had come to know that stare, one tempted fate to counter such a stare. You can read the rest…

Thanks to Suzanne (EducationalMentorship.com) for considering my story for inclusion in her burgeoning online literary magazine www.DarkWinterLit.com. Squiccus hums in low, rhythmic tones and the chipmunk’s breathing slows. With gnarled hands, he pets the disheveled fur down the nape of the creature’s neck; its capture had been—difficult. You can read the rest…

Short Story: Opus Maledictus

Here’s a piece which I purposefully designed. It turned out a bit long, given that I wanted it to unfold with intent. I’ve made numerous, no doubt erroneous assumptions within it, but so what? It’s fiction. You can read it in a new tab here.     One side note: the name of the main character was selected explicitly due to the historical reference. Samael, as a boys’ name is of Hebrew origin, and…

Short Story: Cylinder (sf/space)

This is the first ~2000 words of a nerd-candy, sci-fi, space story I started over on my other blog. It’s nutritionally bereft, but fizzles on the tongue like Pop-Rocks. View in separate tab here…