i actually think that the term "artificial intelligence" should be disassociated from the technology being marketed by it, as it is not intelligence in any way, it's rote memorization. it's not ai in any way, it's a database query.

i took courses on this at university. the term is entrenched, but it's a misnomer, and there should be an aggressive attempt to correct it. call it what it is - a database search. it's all it is. you're just querying a database for a search term, with a more user friendly interface than an oracle query. at it's backend, it's just oracle. it's just access.

if people were describing this correctly, it would eliminate a lot of the ignorance around it. no, chatgpt is not going to conquer the universe, unless somebody asks it to, and then it's a tool being used by an insane human, and you blame the human not the tool. we could get better legislation and have a better discourse if we better understood what it actually is.

it's just a search engine. it's not some sentient computer program that acts independently or makes it's own decisions.

why is biden continuing to take the fall for losing an election he was not a candidate in?

how about this: it is unambiguously obvious that he would have dramatically outperformed harris, and i think he might have even won.

go blame the person that lost for losing.

i'll again note the high vitamin content in the nooch + biobest + avocado + beet mix. this is potent for b vitamins. you could add paprika, cumin and oregano for iron and betacarotene, but i did not.

how's my soup?

as expected, the yeast and frank's and dill really balance out the bitterness of the first bowl. further, i added the beet because i realized that my gazpacho was really more of a borscht.

this is consequently a spicy borscht gazpacho.

and i have to say it's pretty good - if you like bitter and sour and spicy together. a lot of people wouldn't like this.

it's been several years since i've been able to open the window when it's raining. the previous apartment had heavy smokers at both side windows and a functional litter box outside the bathroom window. here, i'm on the third floor, but it's a high third floor, so it seems more like a 5th floor.

the bedroom is facing southeast; tonight the rain is blowing in from the northwest, so there's no threat of splash, it's just fresh air.

it's quite nice.

round two of my hacked cucumber soup recipe, which is still evolving:

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- melt three tsps of olive oil margarine in a large sauce pan

- dump a bulb (yes a bulb) of garlic and a handful of diced dill in and cook for 3 minutes, until a little brown

- add a lime that's been segmented and with each segment cut in half and a dash of vinegar. cook for one minute.

- add 450 ml of vegetable broth (a half carton), diced cucumbers (oops. forget to mention this.), one diced beet, one tbsp of cayenne and some pepper. i avoided salt. let it come to a simmer and simmer for five minutes

- dump about 375 g of yogurt into a large soup bowl. i used biobest probiotic because it has fortified vitamins and that's no longer mandatory in canada.

- dump the saucepan of simmering soup on the yogurt, which will cool it down

- add an avocado (diced)

- add a tbsp of hemp seeds

- add a handful of fresh dill, cut and sprinkled

- add about 100 g of grated cheddar cheese, or more. tonight, i used a bit of medium cheddar i had left, and about 100 g of monterey jack that i bought on sale

- add a tbsp of nutritional yeast 

- add some frank's hot sauce

i am serving with two slices of buttered (olive oil margarine) toast (they gave me onion rye at the food bank, so i toasted it with olive oil, monterey jack and garlic salt), a second avocado and an apple.

how is it?

the movers finally came today to finish the move. there's one thing left in storage: my old demoed bike, the miele. i need to get that out tomorrow. the 90s palomar and the walmart bike are both in the bike shop. my couch is stuck in the hall and i'll need to get the guy across the hall to open the door so i can tilt it into the apartment.

monday morning, i had the can of soup variation again, but it was chicken soup this time. chicken soup is excellent with melted cheese and hot sauce. tuesday morning, it was more vegetable soup. in both cases, they were served with toast with margarine, and an avocado, but i only had one orange left, so i had two avocadoes with the last one. i approach the soup via the least-expired-first algorithm, although i actually now have too much canned soup, none of which is expired, and which is now strictly backup, in case i need it - it's security. thank you to the food bank downtown, and also to the goodfellows of windsor, who have a highly efficient process in motoon. the goodfellows seem to actually buy items, and present a static basket, while the food bank redistributes whatever it gets, which means the basket is entirely random. i will be developing further recipes over june, as i once again have an assortment of items i would not normally buy, as i try to ease back into my normal eating cycle for july. i'm in a hope-that-happens mindset right now.

i then had the food bank lunch on tuesday afternoon, because i had to eat the pizza immediately, and donuts don't last long in the fridge before they get goopy, and because why did i get an energy drink? i spent the rest of the night snacking on some of the less nutritious items they gave me, including a kit kat bar (no nutritional value, but yummy) and another box of goldchip crackers (high in iron and fortified b vitamins). that gets all of the junk food eaten right away, and i've done a lot of exercise recently, so i was in fact in need of just raw energy like pizza, donuts, energy drinks, chocolate bars and goldchip crackers.

i had two apples this morning before i went out, and bought some mountain dew mid-walk, because it was beautifully hot and humid and you gotta stay hydrated. the travel blog will resume soon, and i should make some attempt to narrate this horrendous move, which required about 400 km of walking with a shopping cart back and forth from storage to my new apartment. let me remind myself about that, in case it takes a while to get the writing done.

i made a flowchart of meals last night for the next week that prioritize eating old items first, and try to ease myself back into my meal schedule by mid month. i have eaten double modified day ones (cereal/fruit/guac), day twos (quinoa/ice cream) and day sevens (eggs). there will be a catchup day this week where i eat the items i passed over from those three days. i will also need to finish round two for the cucumber soup, make two batches of broccoli soup, have two modified ceasar salads (day six pt 2), two modified garden salads (day three), two modified nacho plates (day six pt 1), two modified pasta plates (day five) and eventually two tomato sandwiches (day four), before starting the next cycle at two more ceasar salads and two more eggs days, as that will be the items remaining.

i also got a big bag of apples that i will eat casually and a big bag of red potatoes that i've decided to make a lot of gravy and/or sour cream/bacon/chives mixes with. smashed red potato poutine is a little unconventional but is going to end up being the basic idea. i did some research into how to eat this type of potatoes, and they are generally baked with added spices, which....i would eat such a thing and say thank you if you put such a thing in front of me, but i would not make it myself. i would argue this meal is a little too dry. i would probably douse them in ketchup or vinegar (not salt. i have grown somewhat averse to salt.), which would ruin them. it's just not my kind of meal. you have to boil these potatoes before you bake them, and i'm highly unlikely to bother baking them at all - i'll just boil them and smash them and make some kind of gravy/cheese/sour cream/bacon/chives side out of them. i'll be creative in how i make these sides as it comes up.

tonight, i made a quick run to the store before it closed to get the missing cucumber soup ingredients, but forgot to get beets and found out that they didn't have any nutritional yeast. i was able to order beets & yeast over uber, which was somewhat of a challenge for the driver, but he got it done. so, let me get to work on a redesigned cucumber soup recipe for the night, before i get to the caesar salad tomorrow.

i'm actually kind of hungry tonight, and that makes perfect sense, so i may eat a little more than the cucumber soup. as mentioned, i have a surplus of canned and other pantry items, some of which is a part of my normal diet (if slightly modified, like a variety of different types of pasta i would not normally buy) and some of which is not. i will be prioritizing eating some of the items i wouldn't normally eat as ways to supplement my regular diet plan but drag it out a little. days with two or three meals will be split into two or three days to drag it out a little by making use of the items i wouldn't normally purchase as a part of my diet. that will ensure i'm getting all of the vitamins i normally get, but over a longer period than normal, by subbing in a lot of the raw carbs and sugar in the food bank items.

night one, then, is the redesgined cucumber soup; i may also make a second chicken themed dish that combines a few of the gifts that are unusual in my diet. i like chicken, but i don't eat it regularly.