Month: June 2025

I asked ChatGPT the following:

"Draw a futuristic cityscape where all buildings have domes for roofs and the sun is a red dwarf."

And here's what I got:

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We returned to Norway to celebrate the forty-five year anniversary of the exact day that I met my wonderful wife for the very first time. It was on a sunny Saturday morning in the small village of Balestrand, a village located next to the Sognjefjord.

See the Photo Album.

What a great author Murakami is: mysterious, spiritual and philosophical at the same time and in the right measure. I am now on the fourth novel and cannot stop.

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There is a fine line between the real world and the imaginary world, and it is not always clear which is which. The two overlap each other significantly, meaning that sometimes apparent fantasy is actually hard fact and hard rationality is imagination in disguise.

"Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there &emdash to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

- Kafka on the Shore

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Information

This personal weblog was started way back on July 21, 2001 which means that it is 7-21-2001 old.

So far this blog contains no less than 2543 entries and as many as 1877 comments.

Important events

Graduated from Stanford 6-5-1979 ago.

Kiffin Rockwell was shot down and killed 9-23-1916 ago.

Believe it or not but I am 10-11-1957 young.

First met Thea in Balestrand, Norway 6-14-1980 ago.

Began well-balanced and healthy life style 1-8-2013 ago.

My father passed away 10-20-2000 ago.

My mother passed away 3-27-2018 ago.

Started Gishtech 04-25-2016 ago.