Author: Put

Guess what, while MAGA will gorge on lemonade and brownies, the rest of the world will not. Build a coalition before you need them, not while you’re up a creek without a paddle.

So if Trump pissed into a glass and shit on a plate and then handed it to MAGA, would MAGA respond by saying “Sir, this is the best tasting lemonade and brownie that I have ever eaten”? Just wondering.

A few months ago, nincompoop claimed he had settled another war, this time between Thais and Cambodian forces on their mutual border. This was done in the name of world peace. Well, that peace did not last very long with bombs exploding and guns shooting along that border this week. Finding solutions to these problems requires thought, hard work and finesse and most importantly a long term commitment, all qualities that nincompoop lacks.

Wow, if SecWar can’t handle it when we are shooting at a couple of speed boats, what will happen if we engage with an enemy that shoots back. So weak!

On Friday, I took Dylan, our Corgi out for a walk. Dylan is now 13 and is showing his age. Stairs are still passable, but tough for him. He still eats voraciously, but he also likes to sleep a lot. On our walk, he did his normal sniffing and snuffling, wandered into the woods to check out particular scents and generally acted like himself.

But then, he started to run. He was a younger Dylan, running with his ears blown back, his little legs bounding along. He took me by surprised, I had to run along with him. If I slowed he’d turn, look and say “Come on, keep up”. It didn’t last long, but it was so good to see. A small Thanksgiving gift.

Now that Nano Banana has created a new logo, I thought I should review the older one and explain how I got here.

I forget which AI I used to make the above logo. Androken is a mash up of the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers’ names. They join at Merrymeeting Bay not far from where I live. I thought it would be a good name and I tried to create a logo from it.

As you can see, there are two streams of blue snaking down to the globe that represents Merrymeeting. It took numerous prompts and bad results with the AI engine to get this far. This used 2024 AI technology.

The new logo has a much more modern and crisper feel to it. The two rivers are still represented by the flow into a camera’s eye. This was the result of a single prompt, which produced four different examples. One thing that Gemini was particularly proud of (can AI be proud of something??) is that Nano was able to incorporate “Androken” into the logo without correcting or changing it as a spell correct algorithm might try to do.

In addition, Gemini/Nano Banana also produced a black and white variant:

Plus, with digital technology, I can capture the graphic and do my own typography.

All very cool.

I do understand the concern an artist might have that Nano was stealing work. Since I am not making any money from the imaging work I’m doing I cannot afford to hire an artist to make logos. We are in a very weird time where technology is quickly changing and we humans are hard pressed to keep up. A curse, possibly ancient: May you live in interesting times.